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HANSARDA Green Industrial RevolutionI will make more progress before giving way again. Crucial to this debate is the UK’s global leadership. The UK contributes only about 1% of global emissions, and that figure is…15 Jan 2020HANSARDA Green Industrial RevolutionI will make some progress and give way again in a moment. As the cooling towers have come down, wind turbines are going up in their thousands, with offshore wind capacity…15 Jan 2020HANSARDA Green Industrial RevolutionMy right hon. Friend the Transport Secretary is sitting right next to me, and he and I work closely on all sorts of incentives for people to move away from fossil fuels and toward…15 Jan 2020HANSARDA Green Industrial RevolutionMy hon. Friend is a great champion for his constituency and for Cornwall more widely. In many ways, Cornwall is playing a major role in our moves toward net zero, and we in my…15 Jan 2020HANSARDA Green Industrial RevolutionThe hon. Lady will hear that there is a lot of support for her initiative across the Chamber. She is right that we do not want Government to be telling people what to do; we want…15 Jan 2020HANSARDA Green Industrial RevolutionI urge the hon. Gentleman to consider what I have just said in explaining the achievements, the ambition and what we are actually doing in practice. Perhaps he just needs to…15 Jan 2020HANSARDA Green Industrial RevolutionI will make more progress before I give way again. From fighting climate change across the world to backing British ideas, we need a thriving economy to pay for it all. That is…15 Jan 2020HANSARDA Green Industrial RevolutionThe hon. Gentleman makes a very good suggestion. It is clear that central Government will not be the only actor in spending taxpayers’ money and driving every bit of innovation;…15 Jan 2020HANSARDA Green Industrial RevolutionMy right hon. Friend might be setting up a bit of contest, because I think that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Transport, who is sitting next to me on the Front…15 Jan 2020HANSARDA Green Industrial RevolutionOn the one hand, the hon. Lady is absolutely right: the carbon emissions figures for the United Kingdom do not take into account our consumption emissions or, indeed, our…15 Jan 2020HANSARDA Green Industrial RevolutionI will indeed address it, and I can also tell the hon. Gentleman that the Government have taken the advice of the Committee on Climate Change in setting our legally binding…15 Jan 2020HANSARDA Green Industrial RevolutionIn 2017, low-carbon fuels produced more electricity than fossil fuels for the first time, and in that year we also saw the first coal-free day for a century, followed in 2019 by…15 Jan 2020HANSARDA Green Industrial RevolutionMay I start by congratulating you on the superb way you have taken over the speakership, Mr Speaker? The atmosphere in the Chamber demonstrates the dignity and respect that we all…15 Jan 2020HANSARDEnergy Emergencies Executive Committee ReportOn Friday 9 August 2019, over 1 million customers were affected by a major power disruption that occurred across England and Wales and some parts of Scotland. The power outage was…07 Jan 2020HANSARD Thomas Cook CustomersMay I first sincerely congratulate you, Mr Speaker, on your new role? I also wish all hon. and right hon. Members who are retiring today every success for their future. With your…05 Nov 2019HANSARDWork of the DepartmentI would like to update the house on some of the key achievements of the Department for Business, Energy and the Industrial Strategy since it was created in July 2016. Leading the…05 Nov 2019HANSARD Thomas Cook CustomersI thank the hon. Gentleman for his contribution to the taskforce and join him in thanking all those who have played their part. People from right across Government, from trade…05 Nov 2019HANSARD Thomas Cook CustomersI am glad that the hon. Gentleman recognises the Government’s efforts, particularly on the repatriation of customers stranded overseas and, of course, in the work, which I know…05 Nov 2019HANSARD Thomas Cook CustomersThe hon. Gentleman raises an important point. I have written to the Official Receiver today asking him to take carefully into account in his review the behaviour of directors in…05 Nov 2019HANSARDCobham plc MergerOn 25 July 2019, the boards of Cobham plc and a subsidiary of funds managed by Advent International, a US private equity firm, announced that they had reached agreement on the…05 Nov 2019