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HANSARD INEOS Chemicals: GrangemouthThat is exactly the right question to ask about the Prax Lindsey oil refinery. One of the fundamental differences between the two is the Government’s ability to deal with the…17 Dec 2025HANSARD INEOS Chemicals: GrangemouthI start by thanking the hon. Gentleman sincerely for welcoming the support for Grangemouth—it really must be the season of good will. On this occasion, I can assure him that he is…17 Dec 2025HANSARD INEOS Chemicals: GrangemouthMy hon. Friend is right to point out that it is only this Labour Government who have made this decision. This is an appropriate time to identify that the intervention in…17 Dec 2025HANSARD INEOS Chemicals: GrangemouthThe hon. Gentleman mentions the refinery; as I said earlier, Ineos made the final decision to close the refinery in November 2023, having provided data for years to the…17 Dec 2025HANSARDIneos Chemicals: GrangemouthThe Government have agreed a landmark partnership with Ineos to secure the strategically important ethylene cracker in Grangemouth, Scotland. This agreement ensures that the…17 Dec 2025HANSARD INEOS Chemicals: GrangemouthMy hon. Friend is quite right, and I would also like to thank her for her engagement on these subjects as well. She rightly pointed out what a vibrant industrial community there…17 Dec 2025HANSARD INEOS Chemicals: GrangemouthMy hon. Friend spoke powerfully about how Grangemouth matters to the local area. I was chairing a roundtable of the chemicals industry at the Wilton cluster in Teesside; those…17 Dec 2025HANSARD INEOS Chemicals: GrangemouthI do agree with my hon. Friend. I am sure that with Anas Sarwar as the leader at Holyrood, we will be able to implement the Government’s work on Project Willow, which has…17 Dec 2025HANSARD INEOS Chemicals: GrangemouthIndustrial sites like the one at Mossmorran are incredibly valuable to the UK. We mentioned the strategic sites accelerator in our industrial strategy, and I would be interested…17 Dec 2025HANSARD INEOS Chemicals: GrangemouthI will try to do that, Madam Deputy Speaker. Grangemouth certainly has great potential for the manufacture of sustainable aviation fuel, along with our other clusters. My hon.…17 Dec 2025HANSARD INEOS Chemicals: GrangemouthMy hon. Friend is correct that the Government’s decision here and their previous industrial strategy decisions have been in marked contrast to the decisions of the Scottish…17 Dec 2025HANSARD INEOS Chemicals: GrangemouthWith your permission, Madam Deputy Speaker, I wish to make a statement on the agreement the Government have secured to protect vital chemical production and hundreds of jobs at…17 Dec 2025HANSARD INEOS Chemicals: GrangemouthI thank the right hon. Gentleman for mentioning my hon. Friend the Member for Alloa and Grangemouth (Brian Leishman). I am sure that he would have liked to be here, but he was…17 Dec 2025HANSARD INEOS Chemicals: GrangemouthI thank the hon. Member for recognising the importance of both the site and the Government’s intervention. She mentioned the £50 million grant. It is important that hon. Members…17 Dec 2025HANSARD INEOS Chemicals: GrangemouthI thank my hon. Friend for the close attention he gives to this area through his chairmanship of the Energy Security and Net Zero Committee. He started his question by mentioning…17 Dec 2025HANSARD INEOS Chemicals: GrangemouthI sincerely thank the right hon. Gentleman for welcoming the announcement. The season of goodwill really is spreading right across the House. He asks a serious question about the…17 Dec 2025HANSARD INEOS Chemicals: GrangemouthI do agree with my hon. Friend. It really is astonishing how the previous Conservative Government and the SNP Government in Scotland were prepared just to stand by and let the…17 Dec 2025HANSARD INEOS Chemicals: GrangemouthMy hon. Friend makes the point incredibly well about the need to reindustrialise and create good industrial jobs. It is my mission as Industry Minister to release additional…17 Dec 2025HANSARD INEOS Chemicals: GrangemouthMy hon. Friend is right that this is an investment in our national security, our infrastructure, our industry, the workforce and the opportunities for young people in the…17 Dec 2025HANSARD INEOS Chemicals: GrangemouthI very much welcome the hon. Member’s question because it gives me an opportunity to talk about risk appetite in investment, which I certainly am interested in—if other Members…17 Dec 2025