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HANSARD Construction Industry: Cash RetentionsI fully agree with the right hon. Gentleman; that ripple effect can go all the way down to builders’ merchants and those who supply goods. It has a massive effect and we need the…27 Feb 2020HANSARD Construction Industry: Cash RetentionsHe is absolutely spot on—I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention, which illustrates the point that I was making. For the record, I think it is the first time ever that he…27 Feb 2020HANSARDEnergy Efficiency Measures: Net Zero BuildingsThere are ambitious councils, but is the right hon. Gentleman not concerned that, were regulations determined by councils, developers would be drawn to the councils that do not…26 Feb 2020HANSARDEnergy Efficiency Measures: Net Zero BuildingsWill the Minister give way?26 Feb 2020HANSARDEnergy Efficiency Measures: Net Zero BuildingsSurely the £5 billion of green finance is a bigger package that will not be going to individual householders. If it was, it would be like the green deal scheme, which the…26 Feb 2020HANSARDEnergy Efficiency Measures: Net Zero BuildingsIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Pritchard. Like everyone else, I congratulate the right hon. Member for Ludlow (Philip Dunne) on bringing forward the debate.…26 Feb 2020HANSARDUK Oil and Gas IndustryFar be it from me to override what the hon. Member for Stockton North (Alex Cunningham) says, but I have just come from a breakfast briefing on carbon capture and storage, and BP…25 Feb 2020HANSARDUK Oil and Gas IndustryOne of the key themes in the Just Transition Commission and the moves towards net zero has been carbon capture development. There have been requests that the Government support…25 Feb 2020HANSARDUK Oil and Gas IndustryFar be it from me to try to correct the record again, but there was a debate in this Chamber in October 2018, which was secured by my hon. Friend the Member for Falkirk (John Mc…25 Feb 2020HANSARDApprenticeships: SMEsOn quality, will the Minister address the point about ensuring that when companies take on apprentices, there is a long-term future for them? What are the Government doing to…13 Feb 2020HANSARD Business of the HouseMy constituent’s elderly parents are due to return to China this Wednesday in order to meet their visa requirements. Given the coronavirus epidemic, they obviously want to delay…13 Feb 2020HANSARDBroadbandScotland is approximately two thirds the size of England, but we have more challenging topography and islands to serve, yet Scotland will get a fifth of England’s Building Digital…13 Feb 2020HANSARDApprenticeships: SMEsIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Davies. I thank the hon. Member for Slough (Mr Dhesi) for bringing forward the debate. Westminster Hall may not be as busy as…13 Feb 2020HANSARDBudgetPage 64 of the 2015 statement of funding policy document confirms that HS2 should have 100% Barnett consequentials for Scotland. Will the Secretary of State ask for those Barnett…12 Feb 2020HANSARD TransportI have just received a response to a written question about that £500 million, but the Government have confirmed that it is not new money in the Department’s spending. It is…05 Feb 2020HANSARD TransportWill my hon. Friend give way?05 Feb 2020HANSARDNet Zero Targets and Decarbonising TransportThe hon. Gentleman is making a good point about the lack of rail connectivity in his constituency, and that is replicated pretty much across the UK. Does he agree that the UK…04 Feb 2020HANSARDNet Zero Targets and Decarbonising TransportWill the Minister give way?04 Feb 2020HANSARDUniversal Credit: Delayed Roll-OutThe National Audit Office has said there is no evidence that universal credit gets people into work, and that there is no way of measuring it from the Government’s perspective.…04 Feb 2020HANSARDNet Zero Targets and Decarbonising TransportThe right hon. Gentleman is making valid points about the roll-out of electric vehicles, but in Norway sales of electric vehicles are hitting 60%, which shows that it can be done…04 Feb 2020