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HANSARD Net Zero Carbon Emissions: UK’s ProgressNo, we didn’t.28 Feb 2019HANSARD Net Zero Carbon Emissions: UK’s ProgressIf the investment has gone up, I am very alarmed about that and will want to read the Committee’s report in due course. The agenda I am putting to the House tonight is radical. It…28 Feb 2019HANSARD Net Zero Carbon Emissions: UK’s ProgressI do agree. I do not think the position is quite as the hon. Lady has described it—I think that that investment has been dramatically reduced—but it still needs to be go down…28 Feb 2019HANSARD Net Zero Carbon Emissions: UK’s ProgressWhile the Minister is talking about the targets and the request for the CCC to comment on net zero, will she say whether it will be possible for the CCC to recommend a new net…28 Feb 2019HANSARD Net Zero Carbon Emissions: UK’s ProgressNo, because Hinkley Point is a low-carbon asset—and I did not actually sign it off; I did the heads of terms agreement. It was the current Government who signed it off. We could…28 Feb 2019HANSARD Net Zero Carbon Emissions: UK’s ProgressI refer the House to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests and particularly to my involvement with community renewable energy and solar energy. Many colleagues…28 Feb 2019HANSARD Net Zero Carbon Emissions: UK’s ProgressI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way. He is right to say that this country needs to help developing countries. One of the best ways that we can do that is by using…28 Feb 2019HANSARD Prevention and Suppression of TerrorismI am grateful to the Home Secretary for his detailed answer to the question from the hon. Member for Reigate (Crispin Blunt) about what has changed. In terms of the political…26 Feb 2019HANSARD Prevention and Suppression of TerrorismI pay tribute to my right hon. Friend the Member for Enfield North (Joan Ryan), who has led this campaign and sought to bring this issue to light, and who I think deserves huge…26 Feb 2019HANSARD Prevention and Suppression of TerrorismThe Home Secretary is right to proscribe the two organisations operating in Africa, but is he aware that Lord Anderson of Ipswich, the former independent reviewer of terrorism…26 Feb 2019HANSARDEU Settlement SchemeFurther to the question from the Select Committee Chair, the right hon. Member for Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford (Yvette Cooper), does the Home Secretary not realise that…25 Feb 2019HANSARDMacpherson Report: 20th AnniversaryI absolutely agree, and I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. Some of the changes that we have seen are the mechanical and policy changes that were the least…25 Feb 2019HANSARDMacpherson Report: 20th AnniversaryIt is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Battersea (Marsha De Cordova). Her concluding remarks about the importance of giving our young people hope, and showing that…25 Feb 2019HANSARDMacpherson Report: 20th AnniversaryIs the hon. Gentleman aware that there appear to be a disproportionate number of black and ethnic minority police officers above the rank of superintendent under investigation?…25 Feb 2019HANSARD Deprivation of Citizenship Status(Urgent Question): To ask the Home Secretary to make a statement on his use of the power to deprive a person of citizenship status.20 Feb 2019HANSARD Deprivation of Citizenship StatusI thank the Home Secretary for his reply. On the legal grounds to remove citizenship because it would be “conducive to the public good”, can he set out the criteria he must use to…20 Feb 2019HANSARDNorthern Ireland BackstopHas the Solicitor General seen the study published yesterday by Irish Senator Mark Daly, in conjunction with two UNESCO chairmen, on the danger of a return to violence in Northern…19 Feb 2019HANSARDUK Nationals returning from SyriaMay I pay my party’s respects to the late Paul Flynn, whose contribution to this House and to British politics will be sorely missed? Does the Home Secretary agree that our…18 Feb 2019HANSARDSpecial Educational Needs and Disabilities FundingIs the Minister able to tell me, either today or in writing, how the historical spend factor in the formula was set? I understand what history is, but it needs a justification.12 Feb 2019HANSARDSpecial Educational Needs and Disabilities FundingI will start with my four recommendations to ensure that I get them out in time. This is my first request to the Minister: when the Department looks at the high needs block…12 Feb 2019