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HANSARD Committee on StandardsCan the Leader of the House explain why it is appropriate that this new Select Committee should have an in-built Government majority, while the Standards Committee with its lay…03 Nov 2021HANSARDG20 and COP26 World Leaders SummitI welcome the Prime Minister’s recent conversion to the climate cause. I agree with him that the clock is indeed at one minute to midnight, which begs the question as to why his…03 Nov 2021HANSARDSustainability and Climate Change (National Curriculum)It is a pleasure to serve under you, Ms Ghani. I, too, congratulate the hon. Member for Nottingham East (Nadia Whittome) on securing this really important debate. I am grateful…27 Oct 2021HANSARD Budget ResolutionsI am grateful to the right hon. Lady for giving way and even more grateful that she is mentioning the whole issue of the climate emergency and green skills. It felt like the…27 Oct 2021HANSARDAfghan Citizens Resettlement SchemeI am grateful to the Minister for her response. She says the Government are working “at pace”, but I can promise her it does not feel like that for the Afghans still stuck in…25 Oct 2021HANSARDAfghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme(Urgent Question): To ask the Home Secretary to make a statement on the Afghan citizens resettlement scheme.25 Oct 2021HANSARDCOP26: Limiting Global Temperature RisesI am truly grateful for all contributions from my honourable colleagues. If I have seemed ungrateful, Minister, that is because when it comes to the Government’s efforts, what…21 Oct 2021HANSARDCOP26: Limiting Global Temperature RisesI have no problem in praising the Government’s targets. What I have problems with is looking at the fact that there is a dearth of actual actions to meet those targets. That is…21 Oct 2021HANSARDCOP26: Limiting Global Temperature RisesI could not agree more with the hon. Lady. It is quite shocking for people to realise that so much of our climate finance is actually in the form of loans, not grants. Given that…21 Oct 2021HANSARDCOP26: Limiting Global Temperature RisesI could not thank the hon. Member more for his intervention. I think he has been reading my notes, because I was going to make exactly that point. The Prime Minister himself has…21 Oct 2021HANSARDCOP26: Limiting Global Temperature RisesI thank the right hon. Gentleman for his intervention, with which I wholeheartedly agree. I particularly agree that if we look at the covid pandemic as an example of international…21 Oct 2021HANSARDCOP26: Limiting Global Temperature RisesThe right hon. Member is absolutely right. The power sector is the one sector that is going faster than the others, and that is an area where we can have a greater amount of…21 Oct 2021HANSARDCOP26: Limiting Global Temperature RisesI beg to move, “That this House has considered COP26 and limiting global temperature rises to 1.5 degrees Celsius.” It is a pleasure to open the debate on COP26 and limiting the…21 Oct 2021HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateThe Minister says that 79% of people in the UK are fully vaccinated and boosters are being rolled out, yet this terrible virus is taking a desperately heavy toll on human lives,…21 Oct 2021HANSARDCOP26: Limiting Global Temperature RisesI thank the Chair of the Environmental Audit Committee for his intervention. I welcome the fact that aviation and shipping will be brought into our climate budgets but, as always,…21 Oct 2021HANSARDCOP26: Limiting Global Temperature RisesI will certainly be coming to that shortly, because I cannot think of a more damaging thing to have done a matter of months, as it was, before the COP26—a big global summit at…21 Oct 2021HANSARDCOP26: Limiting Global Temperature RisesLet me just make a little bit of progress, and I promise that I will let others in. The UK presidency has identified four goals for COP26. The first is to secure global net zero…21 Oct 2021HANSARDCOP26: Limiting Global Temperature RisesAbsolutely. Leading by example is crucial: we have to walk the talk.21 Oct 2021HANSARDCOP26: Limiting Global Temperature RisesI am sorry, but I just want to set the record straight. It is not the case that the UK is responsible for only 1% of our global emissions. If we look for the emissions that are…21 Oct 2021HANSARDEnvironment BillI start by adding my voice to that of others who have paid tribute to Sir David Amess and James Brokenshire. I knew neither of them really, but I can see how much I missed in not…20 Oct 2021