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HANSARDEngagementsThis morning I had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others. In addition to my duties in this House, I shall have further such meetings later today.17 Nov 2021HANSARDEngagementsI will study his proposals with care when the Opposition parties commit to stop taking funds from the unions in order to control their politics.17 Nov 2021HANSARDEngagementsI thank my right hon. Friend for what she does to represent her hospital, and I thank the NHS staff for the amazing work that they are doing. We are supporting them, as she knows,…17 Nov 2021HANSARDEngagementsMr Speaker, I referred to the right hon. and learned Gentleman’s “Mishconduct”, because that is what he is guilty of.17 Nov 2021HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend, who is totally right to focus on the issue of future-proofing homes and making them low carbon. By 2025, our future homes standard will ensure that new…17 Nov 2021HANSARDEngagementsMy hon. Friend is quite right to champion carbon capture and storage, which has a great future in Scotland in spite of all the gloomstering of the SNP. The Scottish cluster…17 Nov 2021HANSARDEngagementsThe hon. Lady is absolutely right that the River Tyne is a massive economic asset for the whole of the north-east. It has suffered from historic contamination, but we are going to…17 Nov 2021HANSARDEngagementsI am very grateful to my hon. Friend. I was not aware until today that Crawley was bidding to become a city—17 Nov 2021HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend; she is campaigning on a very important issue. Too often, we find that our armed forces fail to provide the wonderful women in our armed forces with the…17 Nov 2021HANSARDEngagementsI thank the hon. Gentleman, and I think the word that I would fasten on in his question is “legitimately”. There is no question but that the use of article 16, which, after all,…17 Nov 2021HANSARDEngagementsWhat I would say to my hon. Friend and her students is that nothing that is said or takes place in this House—none of the argy-bargy, the repartee and the occasional abuse to…17 Nov 2021HANSARDCOP26The hon. Lady, again, rather like the right hon. and learned Member for Holborn and St Pancras (Keir Starmer), is trying to have it both ways: to suck and blow at once. She cannot…15 Nov 2021HANSARDCOP26The hon. Lady is totally wrong, because we need to integrate business into the fight against climate change. That is the way to do it, as we have done with wind power, and we also…15 Nov 2021HANSARDCOP26We are committed to retrofitting homes around the whole UK. As I said earlier, the housing stock is very various, so we need different approaches in different places. We are…15 Nov 2021HANSARDCOP26The reason why we have been able to get considerable success at COP is because the whole world can see that we are moving beyond coal and the pace at which we have done it.15 Nov 2021HANSARDCOP26The right hon. Gentleman makes an important point. The power of consumers, pension holders and investors is enormous. We are looking at everything we can do to encourage all…15 Nov 2021HANSARDCOP26My right hon. Friend makes an excellent point. I think that that was one of the most important defining characteristics of this COP, and the role of business is now seen to be…15 Nov 2021HANSARDCOP26I think the whole House will agree that 2050 is frankly far too late. That is why we are making the commitments that we have made now. The way to avert crisis in the next decade…15 Nov 2021HANSARDCOP26The most important tool we have now is transparent data. We agreed the Paris rulebook, so people will not be able to evade their obligations. The data will be there for all to…15 Nov 2021HANSARDCOP26I do not know quite what relevance that has to COP, but the UK is investing massively. We have doubled our commitment to R&D, funding for science is going up to £22 billion and we…15 Nov 2021