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HANSARD Offshore Petroleum Licensing BillIt is hard to know what more can be said about this farcical and unnecessary Bill. It feels as if we are running out of adjectives. Taking part in this debate, listening to the…20 Feb 2024HANSARD Offshore Petroleum Licensing BillThe hon. Member makes a characteristically wise and useful point. That figure of 67% is startling and deeply worrying. Thirdly, I support amendments 22 and 24, tabled by the hon.…20 Feb 2024HANSARD Offshore Petroleum Licensing BillThe best way to make use of those skills is by making sure that we put resources behind those workers so that they can make the transition, which so many of them want to do, into…20 Feb 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsT3. Last week, the International Monetary Fund joined many others in urging the Chancellor to prioritise public spending and investment above tax cuts. Rather than seeking to…06 Feb 2024HANSARD Fossil Fuels: LobbyingThe Minister is being generous with his time. He will know that just today the Climate Change Committee issued an interim report saying that the Government are off target when it…30 Jan 2024HANSARD Fossil Fuels: LobbyingI thank the right hon. Gentleman for his intervention, and I understand, of course, why he would want to make it. I would simply say that there is concern around perceived…30 Jan 2024HANSARD Fossil Fuels: LobbyingI thank the hon. Lady very much for her eloquent intervention. She is exactly right. She underlines the point that stopping these vast subsidies for the fossil fuel industry is…30 Jan 2024HANSARD Fossil Fuels: LobbyingI thank the hon. Member for her intervention, which reminds me of a powerful thing that the US campaigner Bill McKibben says: delaying is the new denial, and winning slowly is the…30 Jan 2024HANSARD Fossil Fuels: LobbyingTo avert climate breakdown, the vast majority of the fossil fuel industry’s coal, gas and oil reserves need to stay firmly in the ground. Yet successive Governments, led by…30 Jan 2024HANSARD Fossil Fuels: LobbyingThe Minister is obviously going through the existing architecture that is supposed to guard against undue influence from lobbyists, corporations and so on. I wonder whether he…30 Jan 2024HANSARD Fossil Fuels: LobbyingI am very grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his intervention and his kind comments. It is always a great pleasure to work with him, and I agree entirely: when it comes to…30 Jan 2024HANSARD Fossil Fuels: LobbyingI thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. It is incredibly disappointing that Labour has, in a sense, not followed its own logic; it is happy to say that it will not accept…30 Jan 2024HANSARD Fossil Fuels: LobbyingI thank the hon. Member for both his comments, with which I agree, and his kind remarks. He is right: of course, lobbying happens, but a line gets crossed when money starts to…30 Jan 2024HANSARD Fossil Fuels: LobbyingIt will come as no surprise to the hon. Member that I completely agree with her. I do wonder what our own kids will think when the planet continues to heat still further, and what…30 Jan 2024HANSARDAction Against Houthi Maritime AttacksI and many others will be disappointed at the Prime Minister’s failure to condemn the increasingly violent and extreme language by Netanyahu and his Ministers, and I invite him…23 Jan 2024HANSARDAction Against Houthi Maritime AttacksIt is not me!23 Jan 2024HANSARD Offshore Petroleum Licensing BillNobody is talking about turning off oil and gas taps overnight—nobody; not even Just Stop Oil—so will the hon. Gentleman cut the amount of rubbish coming out of his mouth? He is…22 Jan 2024HANSARD Offshore Petroleum Licensing BillIt is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Nottingham East (Nadia Whittome). It was slightly less of a pleasure to listen to the right hon. Member for East Antrim (Sammy…22 Jan 2024HANSARD Offshore Petroleum Licensing BillThe right hon. Lady knows as well as I do that most of the gas we import comes from Norway, where gas production is half as polluting as it is in the UK, so let us not have all…22 Jan 2024HANSARD Offshore Petroleum Licensing BillThe hon. Member is taking the Climate Change Committee’s name in vain. It does not say that we need new oil and gas. It says categorically that new explorations of oil and gas are…22 Jan 2024