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HANSARD Offshore Petroleum Licensing BillBefore I give way, I will gently point out to Opposition Front Benchers—I am not sure whether they are aware of this—that the 78% tax rate they are so keen to copy from Norway…20 Feb 2024HANSARD Offshore Petroleum Licensing BillI find myself looking for a point that I might agree with in the hon. Gentleman’s intervention, and sadly failing. However, his point about the decline of oil and gas in the UK…20 Feb 2024HANSARD Offshore Petroleum Licensing BillI feel almost obliged to intervene, if only to agree totally with what the hon. Member just said. The Aberdeen University study relates specifically to the decline over previous…20 Feb 2024HANSARD Offshore Petroleum Licensing BillI am reluctant to intervene, because the hon. Gentleman is making some interesting points, many of which I agree with, but I have a burning question. He makes a point about the…20 Feb 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsT3. Fraserburgh-based Gray & Adams is the UK’s pre-eminent manufacturer of refrigerated trailers—I am told they were involved in the design of regulations in the early days of…08 Feb 2024HANSARDSeafaring Support: Red Sea1. What steps his Department is taking with Cabinet colleagues to support seafarers working in the Red sea.08 Feb 2024HANSARDSeafaring Support: Red SeaI associate myself, and the people of Banff and Buchan, with my right hon. Friend’s remarks wishing His Majesty the fullest of recoveries. Could he set out in more detail…08 Feb 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsLast June the Exchequer Secretary announced the energy security investment mechanism, and I welcomed the announcement in last November’s autumn statement that the floor price…06 Feb 2024HANSARDMedia BillMy hon. Friend is making some excellent points and I am hesitant to interrupt him. Although I would not sell his constituency short, my constituency is also very rural. Our…30 Jan 2024HANSARD Shared Rural Network ImplementationCan the shared rural network programme be used to help to fill the notspots not just for mobile signal but for fixed signal? As the Minister has alluded to, the Scottish…24 Jan 2024HANSARD Shared Rural Network ImplementationIn Banff and Buchan.24 Jan 2024HANSARD Shared Rural Network ImplementationThe hon. Lady is making some excellent points. What she says brings to mind a point that I almost raised when my hon. Friend the Member for Buckingham (Greg Smith) was speaking.…24 Jan 2024HANSARD Shared Rural Network ImplementationMy hon. Friend the Member for North Norfolk (Duncan Baker) makes a very good point: we have to take into consideration the concerns of communities when we build infrastructure.…24 Jan 2024HANSARD Offshore Petroleum Licensing BillIt has been pointed out to me that gas in Qatar is produced at a broadly equivalent carbon footprint to ours, but the compression into liquid, the transportation and the…22 Jan 2024HANSARD Offshore Petroleum Licensing BillI want to start by reminding the House, in the interests of transparency, that for 25 years prior to being an MP I worked in the energy sector, specifically the oil and gas…22 Jan 2024HANSARD Offshore Petroleum Licensing BillIs the hon. Member aware of this? He mentioned the pathway to the 1.5° target, and the IEA’s description of what is required is a 3% to 4% reduction in oil and gas production year…22 Jan 2024HANSARD Offshore Petroleum Licensing BillNot to step on the Minister’s toes, but my understanding is that even before the 35% energy profits levy, the oil and gas sector was, at 40%, already the most taxed sector in the…22 Jan 2024HANSARD Offshore Petroleum Licensing BillI am sure that my hon. Friend will join me in welcoming the vast number of offshore wind projects being developed off the coasts of our respective constituencies—as well as that…22 Jan 2024HANSARD Offshore Petroleum Licensing BillI of course join my hon. Friend in congratulating Buckie Thistle, but will he answer just one question: which side played in the home strip?22 Jan 2024HANSARD Offshore Petroleum Licensing BillWill my right hon. Friend give way?22 Jan 2024