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HANSARDCarbon Capture, Usage and StorageI respect the right hon. Gentleman’s question, although I do not agree. First, this is a long-term investment in the country’s future, and I think the Chancellor is far-sighted in…07 Oct 2024HANSARDCarbon Capture, Usage and StorageMy hon. Friend always speaks with great eloquence on these issues, and he is completely right. When we talk about the transition to clean energy creating the jobs of the future,…07 Oct 2024HANSARDCarbon Capture, Usage and StorageThank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I heard your statement, and Mr Speaker’s earlier. With permission, I would like to make a statement on the Government’s carbon capture programme.…07 Oct 2024HANSARDCarbon Capture, Usage and StorageThe hon. Lady is absolutely right, and it is why one of the projects we funded is an energy from waste project. This is exactly the kind of role that CCS can play.07 Oct 2024HANSARDCarbon Capture, Usage and StorageI know that the right hon. Lady is in a difficult position, and it rather showed today. Let us be honest: the truth is quite painful for her. She failed, as Energy Secretary, to…07 Oct 2024HANSARDCarbon Capture, Usage and StorageI thank my hon. Friend for his question; he makes a really important point. Some people are sceptical about the use of carbon capture and storage. The truth is that for…07 Oct 2024HANSARDCarbon Capture, Usage and StorageMay I begin by welcoming the hon. Lady to her place, and thanking her for the tone and substance of her remarks? She is right to underline the fact that we are marking a new era…07 Oct 2024HANSARDCarbon Capture, Usage and StorageLet me say to the hon. Gentleman that this is a point of agreement between us. These are very important projects, and I thank him for his question. They were always envisaged as…07 Oct 2024HANSARDCarbon Capture, Usage and StorageThis is something that my hon. Friend and I have talked about. On Grangemouth, we are advancing at speed—in a way that the last Government completely failed to do, because the…07 Oct 2024HANSARDCarbon Capture, Usage and StorageI thank the right hon. Gentleman for his question. I talked to the UK chair of ExxonMobil last week about this issue, and I believe that the Minister of State, Department for…07 Oct 2024HANSARDCarbon Capture, Usage and StorageMy hon. Friend speaks with great knowledge of this subject. She is unusual in this House, in that she is an engineer by background and actually knows about these issues. She is…07 Oct 2024HANSARDCarbon Capture, Usage and StorageI concur completely with what the hon. Lady says. We are absolutely committed to Acorn; it is very important. We came into Government with track 1 not accounted for, so part of…07 Oct 2024HANSARDCarbon Capture, Usage and StorageMy hon. Friend is entirely right. This is part of a whole set of things this Government are doing, including lifting the onshore wind ban, releasing private investment and dealing…07 Oct 2024HANSARDCarbon Capture, Usage and StorageOn the hon. Gentleman’s first point, that is very much part of our plans for the future. On his second point, we will obviously set out all those details in response to the work…07 Oct 2024HANSARDCarbon Capture, Usage and StorageI thank my hon. Friend for that question and for her brilliant advocacy on this issue. She raises an important point, which is that people will look at this investment and think…07 Oct 2024HANSARDCarbon Capture, Usage and StorageIt is early, but I worry about the hon. Gentleman’s opposition to new grid infrastructure, so goodness knows what will happen to the renewables. He also opposes carbon capture, so…07 Oct 2024HANSARDCarbon Capture, Usage and StorageMy hon. Friend also speaks with customary eloquence on these issues. This is potentially an important part of the solution. We owe a debt to the workers at Port Talbot, and we…07 Oct 2024HANSARDCarbon Capture, Usage and StorageI will let the House into a secret: the conversation—if I can put it that way—between myself and the right hon. Gentleman goes back to 2008 or 2009, when he was shadowing me, so…07 Oct 2024HANSARDCarbon Capture, Usage and StorageMy hon. Friend makes such an important point. I was with the Prime Minister in New York in the last couple of weeks, talking to international partners about where the new British…07 Oct 2024HANSARDCarbon Capture, Usage and StorageI welcome the hon. Member to the House. We have all kinds of projects in place to encourage business to decarbonise; indeed, our drive for clean power by 2030 is part of ensuring…07 Oct 2024