division_name: Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Bill
motion: <p class="" pid="a.40.4/1" pwmotiontext="yes">I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time.</p>
  
  <p class="" pid="a.40.4/2" pwmotiontext="yes">The central purpose of the Bill is to improve the local environment, which directly affects people's quality of life. In my Department's five-year strategy, which we published last month, I set out our key objective of achieving environmental leadership. That is at the heart of our international agenda, but care for the environment begins at home.</p>
  
  <p class="" pid="a.48.0/1" pwmotiontext="yes">I beg to move,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a.48.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">That this House declines to give the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Bill a Second Reading because the Bill focuses predominantly on urban issues while neglecting rural areas, creates another unnecessary quango and brings local authorities into conflict with police and other authorities which currently exercise powers in relation to abandoned vehicles and stray dogs; because the Bill introduces provisions, such as clearing up chewing gum as extensively and frequently as litter, which will be prohibitively expensive yet fail to take account of producer responsibility; and because the Bill contains many unnecessary provisions which would not be needed if existing legislation were properly enforced.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.120.5/1" pwmotiontext="yes"><i>Question put,</i> That the amendment be made:&#8212;</p>
  
  <p pid="a.120.5/2" pwmotiontext="yes"><i>The House divided:</i> Ayes 151, Noes 356.</p>