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HANSARDCOP26Before I begin today’s statement, I would like to say a few words about the sickening attack that took place yesterday morning outside Liverpool Women’s Hospital. On behalf of the…15 Nov 2021HANSARDCOP26Yes, indeed; although vaccines per se were not discussed at COP, there was a long discussion at the G20 in Rome, and the UK has a fantastic record of supporting at-cost vaccines…15 Nov 2021HANSARDCOP26My right hon. Friend makes an extremely important point. The resources are there. There are adequate supplies; the problem lies in the supply chains. That is an issue that we are…15 Nov 2021HANSARDCOP26I thank the right hon. Gentleman. On his point about picking up potential terrorists earlier, he is absolutely right. He will know from his work on the ISC that the potential for…15 Nov 2021HANSARDCOP26I see; he is talking about India, China and others. [ Interruption. ] I am sorry, Madam Deputy Speaker. I think the House will forgive me; it was not entirely clear from his…15 Nov 2021HANSARDCOP26What I can certainly tell the hon. Gentleman is that the 125% super deduction he rightly refers to will be of great assistance to companies across the whole of the UK in investing…15 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 2021HANSARDCOP26I am grateful to my right hon. Friend. Of course we must be realistic, but we have seen that it is entirely realistic to move very rapidly to renewable energy and see the cost of…15 Nov 2021HANSARDCOP26Yes. I congratulate my hon. Friend on what he is doing to support low-carbon industries across the north-east. That has immense potential throughout the country—he is quite right.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 2021HANSARDCOP26Australia did make a commitment to net zero. Electorates and consumers around the world are now going to hold Governments to account for the promises that they have made.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 2021HANSARDCOP26One of the things that we agreed at this COP—and one of the reasons why I believe it is so historic—is, finally, the Paris rulebook, which contains, among other things, provisions…15 Nov 2021HANSARDCOP26We want to move beyond coal. We will have no more coal from 2024, and around the world we are no longer investing in fossil fuels.15 Nov 2021HANSARDCOP26On the right hon. Gentleman’s last point, yes, of course that it is right. We are abandoning export finance—I made that clear earlier—for the hydrocarbon industry. That massive…15 Nov 2021HANSARDCOP26I thank the right hon. Gentleman. I should say, taking his points in reverse order, that of course the Acorn project remains a strong contender, as I have told him several times…15 Nov 2021HANSARDCOP26The hon. Gentleman makes an excellent point. The next Egyptian presidency of COP will focus on adaptation measures and what we all need to do to support them.15 Nov 2021HANSARDCOP26My right hon. Friend is absolutely right about the vital importance of the private sector. I think that this COP was a breakthrough in many ways, but not least because of the…15 Nov 2021HANSARDCOP26If I may say so, Madam Deputy Speaker, that was the usual pathetic attempt by the Leader of the Opposition to suck and blow at once. He was trying to congratulate the UK…15 Nov 2021HANSARDCOP26I have seen some wonderful new technologies being developed by people and businesses in Glasgow. Where it is useful and appropriate for us to give support, we will.15 Nov 2021