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HANSARDSolar Power11. What plans he has to help ensure that solar power is (a) accessible to and (b) affordable for all households.11 Jun 2019HANSARDSolar PowerWith all due respect, only this Government could dress up a 94% collapse in domestic solar installations as a success. They now plan to slap 20% VAT on solar and storage and to…11 Jun 2019HANSARDCystic Fibrosis Drugs: OrkambiI thank the Minister for giving way. I raised the issue of compulsory licensing, which the Government have within their armoury. Of course it would be a measure of last resort,…10 Jun 2019HANSARDCystic Fibrosis Drugs: OrkambiIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hanson. I add my thanks to the hon. Member for Sutton and Cheam (Paul Scully) for securing this debate. I will focus on two…10 Jun 2019HANSARD Pension Funds: Financial and Ethical InvestmentsIt is really good to hear hon. Members talk about climate change and greenhouse gases, but there are in fact nine planetary boundaries, of which greenhouse gases are one. I wonder…22 May 2019HANSARDEnvironment and Climate ChangeSo often as politicians we talk about what is politically possible, but with the climate crisis we need to move from the art of the politically possible to the science of what is…01 May 2019HANSARD Climate Action and Extinction RebellionI welcome the Minister’s comments about listening to and acting on the science. If that is the case, the Committee on Climate Change has questioned whether support for oil and gas…23 Apr 2019HANSARDRenewable Energy: Public FundingWill the Minister join me in paying tribute to one of this country’s most successful publicly funded renewable energy programmes ever? I am of course talking about the last Labour…09 Apr 2019HANSARDYemenAt a recent lobby of Parliament by Save the Children and Oxfam, my constituents were quite clear that the arms sales to Saudi Arabia need to end if the famine in Yemen is to end.…26 Mar 2019HANSARD Insect PopulationI praise my hon. Friend to the rafters for securing this debate, because it is quite clear to many people that it would be entirely possible for this country and this planet to…20 Mar 2019HANSARDFeed-in Tariffs and Power Generation14. What steps he plans to take to support small and medium-sized renewable power generators after the scheduled closure of the feed-in tariffs scheme.19 Mar 2019HANSARDFeed-in Tariffs and Power GenerationFrom listening to the Government’s rhetoric on climate change, we could be forgiven for thinking that the school strikers are coming out in support of them; they are coming out…19 Mar 2019HANSARDNew TechnologiesI am sorry, but when it comes to funding the new technologies that really matter, this Government, and especially the Treasury, have been abysmal. The climate crisis is upon us…05 Mar 2019HANSARD Net Zero Carbon Emissions: UK’s ProgressDoes the hon. Gentleman acknowledge that the IPCC report on a 1.5°C target said that we need to make the necessary reductions to our greenhouse emissions by 2030? Unfortunately,…28 Feb 2019HANSARD Net Zero Carbon Emissions: UK’s ProgressI am going to be slightly partisan in what I say, and not for the sake of it, but more as a polemic. I genuinely feel that those young people called their school strikes because…28 Feb 2019HANSARD Antisemitism in Modern SocietyFor me, this debate is personal. I am not Jewish, but as a black man I know what it feels like to experience racism of both the individual and the institutional kind. I understand…20 Feb 2019HANSARDDraft Small Charitable Donations Act (Amendment) Order 2019We will probably abstain, but may I pick up the point the hon. Gentleman is making? It is easy to assume that all charities are charitable in their nature and how they operate,…12 Feb 2019HANSARDDraft Small Charitable Donations Act (Amendment) Order 2019Good morning, Mrs Moon. As the Minister outlined, the Small Charitable Donations Act 2012, which came into force on 6 April 2013, introduced a new scheme to enable charities and…12 Feb 2019HANSARD Police Grant ReportIt is a genuine pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Waveney (Peter Aldous). Norfolk constabulary has been forced to endure eight consecutive years of inadequate funding…05 Feb 2019HANSARDFurther Education: Economic SustainabilityA while ago, like many Members, I was lobbied by staff and students in further education who told me that they and their institutions were at breaking point. At 16, the average…04 Feb 2019