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HANSARDTackling Short-term and Long-term Cost of Living IncreasesIt is good to see that the right hon. Gentleman has clambered back onto the career bandwagon. I thought that he was no longer a loyalist. The truth is that it was the Resolution…17 May 2022HANSARDTackling Climate ChangeThe COP26 President knows that the Prime Minister caved in to those who wanted to block onshore wind—and I think the Minister for Energy knows it too. Let us try another. To…20 Apr 2022HANSARDTackling Climate ChangeThe recent climate assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was deeply worrying, saying that current global policies will lead to warming of more than 3°, but…20 Apr 2022HANSARD Energy Security StrategyI thank the Secretary of State for his statement, but I have to tell him that after all the hype and all the promises, his energy relaunch fails to live up remotely to the scale…19 Apr 2022HANSARDShale Gas ProductionI congratulate the hon. Member for Ashfield (Lee Anderson) on securing this urgent question. He is right to try to smoke out the Government’s position, and it is no wonder he is…15 Mar 2022HANSARDRussian Oil Import BanI thank the Secretary of State for his statement. We are united against Russian aggression. We stand together in solidarity with the Ukrainian people. Let me echo his admiration…09 Mar 2022HANSARDCOP26 Presidency: PrioritiesThe House stands in solidarity with the Ukrainian people, and the Minister’s COP presidency now faces an utterly changed context with the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The crisis…02 Mar 2022HANSARDCOP26 Presidency: PrioritiesAn essential part of becoming less dependent on fossil fuels is reducing our demand for gas by making more progress on energy efficiency. On its own, insulating the 18 million…02 Mar 2022HANSARDStorm EuniceI thank the Secretary of State for his statement. I join him in sending my condolences to the families of the victims who tragically died during Storm Eunice, and I express my…21 Feb 2022HANSARD Oil and Gas Producers: Windfall TaxI beg to move, That this House notes the cost-of-living crisis hitting families across the country and that the energy price cap is predicted to rise by 50 per cent from April;…01 Feb 2022HANSARD Oil and Gas Producers: Windfall TaxI am very proud of the investments that the last Labour Government made in our public services.01 Feb 2022HANSARD Oil and Gas Producers: Windfall TaxThe right hon. Gentleman and I differ somewhat on this. The real problem is that we have not gone far enough or fast enough on the green transition. The more we are subject to the…01 Feb 2022HANSARD Oil and Gas Producers: Windfall TaxI will answer all the hon. Gentleman’s points. We would raise £1.2 billion from the windfall tax. I will come to this later in my speech, but the tax position is incredibly…01 Feb 2022HANSARD Oil and Gas Producers: Windfall TaxMy hon. Friend has made a powerful point. Labour has come up with a clear and costed plan. We plan, by levying the windfall tax, to reduce VAT to zero, to increase the warm home…01 Feb 2022HANSARD Oil and Gas Producers: Windfall TaxNo, I am going to make progress. The truth is—we cannot get away from it—that the Conservatives are a party bankrolled to the tune of nearly £5 million by oil and gas interests…01 Feb 2022HANSARD Oil and Gas Producers: Windfall TaxI thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. I am old enough to remember when an energy price cap was living in a “Marxist universe” and now it is Government policy. The…01 Feb 2022HANSARDParis Agreement Temperature GoalConsumers looking at their energy bills will ask, “If it is going so well, why are our bills rocketing and why are we so vulnerable?” We can keep 1.5 alive only if we have an…19 Jan 2022HANSARDParis Agreement Temperature GoalTwo months on from the COP, there is a worrying lack of momentum in this pivotal year, and it could get worse if we learn the wrong lessons from the energy crisis. Does the COP…19 Jan 2022HANSARDHousehold Energy Bills: VATI will not. We have a Government who got us into this mess and have no clue how to help the British people out of it. They are paralysed in the face of this cost-of-living crisis.…11 Jan 2022HANSARDHousehold Energy Bills: VATI want to thank all hon. Members who have spoken in this debate. I particularly thank my hon. Friend the shadow Chancellor, my hon. Friends the Members for Tooting (Dr…11 Jan 2022