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HANSARD Electricity Grid (Review)I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to require the Government and Ofgem to conduct and act on a review of the electricity transmission grid and associated…26 Oct 2021HANSARDClimate Change Committee Progress Report 2021It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Christopher. I congratulate the hon. Member for South Cambridgeshire (Anthony Browne) on bringing forward the debate. I was…21 Oct 2021HANSARDClimate Change Committee Progress Report 2021I have not had time to get on the hotline to them. On the point about the additional members of Ofgem working in Glasgow, that is very welcome and I hope they will not have a long…21 Oct 2021HANSARDClimate Change Committee Progress Report 2021Will the Minister give way?21 Oct 2021HANSARDClimate Change Committee Progress Report 2021Does the hon. Gentleman not agree that the Government could be even more ambitious on carbon capture and storage by progressing the Scottish cluster on track 1 as well, instead of…21 Oct 2021HANSARDClimate Change Committee Progress Report 2021The Minister is citing Octopus again, but can he tell me, then, what he thinks the installation price of an air-source heat pump will be in a year’s time? Did he listen to the…21 Oct 2021HANSARDClimate Change Committee Progress Report 2021I thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention, and clearly I agree with him. It is great that he has recognised the work that is going on to restore peat bogs in Scotland. As…21 Oct 2021HANSARDClimate Change Committee Progress Report 2021Will the Minister give way?21 Oct 2021HANSARDClimate Change Committee Progress Report 2021I agree with the points that the hon. Gentleman is making about consumer education and the fact that more information should be available. In Scotland, the Scottish Government…21 Oct 2021HANSARDClimate Change Committee Progress Report 2021What is the Minister’s estimate of the capital cost of new nuclear that the Government are willing to commit the UK to?21 Oct 2021HANSARDClimate Change Committee Progress Report 2021It is still in reserve.21 Oct 2021HANSARD Carbon Capture and StorageIt is illogical not to progress the Scottish cluster at this stage. The shipping and infrastructure proposals for Peterhead port, for example, were intended to facilitate the…20 Oct 2021HANSARD Carbon Capture and StorageIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Miller. I, too, congratulate the hon. Member for South Cambridgeshire (Anthony Browne) on securing the debate, which is…20 Oct 2021HANSARD Net Zero Strategy and Heat and Buildings StrategyThe key point in the announcement today is the fact that Peterhead has once again been betrayed. All along, warm words have been paid to the Scottish cluster, but we have been…19 Oct 2021HANSARDGas Prices and Energy SuppliersThis is not market failure; it is Government and regulator failure. Ofgem all along had the financial and hedging information to know which companies were at risk, so why are we…23 Sept 2021HANSARD Motor Insurance: Court JudgmentsIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Bardell. I must say, I thought that the hon. Member for Stone (Sir William Cash) was taking the guidance that Front-Bench…22 Sept 2021HANSARD Motor Insurance: Court JudgmentsI said that the Government need to make sure that no loopholes are created—that no categories fall between the cracks, so that insurance is not compulsory; motorsports was…22 Sept 2021HANSARDWorking People’s Finances: Government PolicyOn the previous intervention about there being a limited amount of money that can only go so far, did the £1.6 billion allocated for a nil rate stamp duty on houses worth up to…21 Sept 2021HANSARDWorking People’s Finances: Government PolicyIs it not the case that even the schemes that are meant to help the poorest, such as the warm home discount, the eco scheme that helps with some energy-efficiency measures, are…21 Sept 2021HANSARDNuclear Warhead ProgrammeThe Secretary of State talks about the workforce. The reality is that the Government have just outsourced the fire service to Capita at both Faslane and Coulport. Capita is now,…20 Sept 2021