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HANSARD Offshore Petroleum Licensing BillI beg to move an amendment, to leave out from “That” to the end of the Question and add: “this House, while affirming the need for urgent action to tackle the UK’s energy…22 Jan 2024HANSARD Offshore Petroleum Licensing BillI will not give way. The truth is that there are two roads for Britain’s future: driving to clean energy by 2030 to cut bills and make us energy independent, and GB Energy to…22 Jan 2024HANSARD Offshore Petroleum Licensing BillI will tell the hon. Gentleman exactly what we would do. I am really grateful to him for intervening, but I am sorry he has lengthened my speech. We would establish a national…22 Jan 2024HANSARD Offshore Petroleum Licensing BillOh go on. That is very tempting, so I will give way to the hon. Gentleman.22 Jan 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsIn the past month, the former Prime Minister who legislated for net zero has condemned the Minister’s oil and gas policy. His colleague the former COP President has accused the…16 Jan 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsIt is not just us who oppose the Minister’s Bill, but those on his own side—he has lost an MP over it. I know he brought down the last Government over fracking; he is trying to do…16 Jan 2024HANSARD COP28I thank the Minister for his statement and, indeed, for his regular commuting between Dubai and Westminster. Given that he brought the last Government down over fracking, I think…14 Dec 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe Secretary of State has no response to Lord Stern. The problem is that he sees a Government preaching one thing and doing another. Her negotiators at COP will argue to phase…28 Nov 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe world sorely needs leadership at COP28, but the verdict of our most globally respected climate expert, Lord Stern, earlier this month was damning. He said that the…28 Nov 2023HANSARDMaking Britain a Clean Energy SuperpowerI think the Climate Change Committee is actually saying that its most ambitious scenario, which we should be aiming for, is for us to cut the use of gas by 90%. We are going to…09 Nov 2023HANSARDMaking Britain a Clean Energy SuperpowerI am going to finish. The Prime Minister has been in the job for more than a year and he has been rumbled, just as his party has been in power for 13 years and it has been…09 Nov 2023HANSARDMaking Britain a Clean Energy SuperpowerNo, I will not.09 Nov 2023HANSARDMaking Britain a Clean Energy SuperpowerI had to correct the right hon. Lady’s predecessor on the point she has just repeated. Her mistake is quite basic, confusing electricity and energy. The Guido Fawkes blog—not an…09 Nov 2023HANSARDMaking Britain a Clean Energy SuperpowerI will read from David Laws’ memoirs. During the coalition talks, I said, “all this stuff about getting 40% of energy production”— energy production— “from renewables by 2020 is…09 Nov 2023HANSARDMaking Britain a Clean Energy SuperpowerI ask the Secretary of State for the third time. She claims that I said that it was “pie in the sky” that 40% of our electricity could come from renewables. I did not say that,…09 Nov 2023HANSARDMaking Britain a Clean Energy SuperpowerThis Gracious Speech takes place against a backdrop of three crises facing our country: the worst cost of living crisis in memory; the long-term failure of our economy to work for…09 Nov 2023HANSARDMaking Britain a Clean Energy SuperpowerOh, I will, definitely, yes!09 Nov 2023HANSARDMaking Britain a Clean Energy SuperpowerI think that that is what we call wriggling. As I was saying, I commend the Energy Secretary on her outburst of candour. She is right—she is telling it like it is—and, by the way,…09 Nov 2023HANSARDMaking Britain a Clean Energy SuperpowerNever mind then. Keep quiet. The Government could have legislated to change planning rules to speed up renewables and cut energy bills, but they did not. They do not seem to…09 Nov 2023HANSARDMaking Britain a Clean Energy SuperpowerI am afraid that all the hon. Gentleman is pointing out is the Government’s failure to go fast enough in driving towards renewables. Of course we need a mix of energy, but this is…09 Nov 2023