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HANSARD Clean Energy Superpower MissionMy hon. Friend is an incredibly eloquent advocate for his port, which I was delighted to visit during the election campaign. He makes such an important point: for an island nation…18 Jul 2024HANSARD Clean Energy Superpower MissionI thank the right hon. Gentleman for his question. I certainly took an interest in the project when I was in opposition. I have met Xlinks, the company involved. I need to be…18 Jul 2024HANSARD Clean Energy Superpower MissionIn the spirit that I spoke about in my statement, may I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on his work on deep geothermal? It was an outstanding example of how Members of Parliament…18 Jul 2024HANSARD Clean Energy Superpower MissionI congratulate my hon. Friend on her election. May I say that she is a great person to go out on a boat with and that I very much enjoyed our tour? My hon. Friend makes such an…18 Jul 2024HANSARD Clean Energy Superpower MissionI welcome the hon. Lady to her place. Great British Energy will of course have a strong interest in nuclear power, working with Great British Nuclear. It is very important for the…18 Jul 2024HANSARDNet Zero TargetTwo weeks ago the Government were found, for a second time, to be in breach of the law over their climate targets. That failure will mean that families across the country will pay…21 May 2024HANSARDNet Zero TargetWith a defence like that, I can see why the Government lost in court not just once but twice. Buried in the court documents is the confidential memo that reveals the real reason…21 May 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsMr Speaker, can I start by paying tribute to your father, Doug? He was a remarkable fighter for social justice, and we share your sense of loss. A year ago, after presiding over…16 Apr 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsThat is simply not good enough. It is a year on. The right hon. Lady is the Energy Secretary; she should be delivering that compensation to people, and she is failing across the…16 Apr 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe right hon. Lady did not answer the question. I will tell her why it has not worked: because she has left a uniquely restrictive planning regime in place for onshore wind. Her…27 Feb 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsLast September, the Energy Secretary claimed she was lifting the onshore wind ban, but in the whole of 2023 and so far in 2024 there have been zero applications for new onshore…27 Feb 2024HANSARD Offshore Petroleum Licensing BillThat is not the NSTA position, as I have discussed with it. Next, Lord Browne, the former CEO of BP, attacked the Bill and said it was “not going to not make any difference” to…22 Jan 2024HANSARD Offshore Petroleum Licensing BillOf course I don’t. Then the former COP president— [Interruption.] Let’s be serious. Then the former COP president the right hon. Member for Reading West (Sir Alok Sharma), a man…22 Jan 2024HANSARD Offshore Petroleum Licensing BillThe Secretary of State nods, but I put on record my thanks to her, because she has been an internal one-woman rebuttal unit against the Prime Minister. She went on breakfast…22 Jan 2024HANSARD Offshore Petroleum Licensing BillThat is great, because the Secretary of State anticipates my rebuttal of the second bad argument for this Bill, which is the argument she has just gone on to make. She said that…22 Jan 2024HANSARD Offshore Petroleum Licensing BillMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. She takes me to the fifth and final bad argument that the Government are making for the Bill.22 Jan 2024HANSARD Offshore Petroleum Licensing BillI do not believe that it fulfils the kind of climate leadership that we pride ourselves on in this country. Here is another interesting fact for the House. UK Export Finance, I…22 Jan 2024HANSARD Offshore Petroleum Licensing BillEighty per cent. of what we get from UK waters is exported, not used here. We said clearly that we would continue with existing oil and gas fields. There must be a transition, and…22 Jan 2024HANSARD Offshore Petroleum Licensing BillIn a moment. The Government argue that the Bill can somehow be justified on climate grounds, which demands a level of absurdity that should make even them deeply embarrassed. Let…22 Jan 2024HANSARD Offshore Petroleum Licensing BillI am very happy to talk about Ian Wood. We had a good roundtable with him in Aberdeen in November. I totally accept that it is for a Government of either party to show that there…22 Jan 2024