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HANSARDStorm Arwen: Power OutagesOn a point of order, Mr Speaker. Can you give me some guidance on the absence of the Secretary of State from this urgent question? Yesterday, he claimed to be getting a grip on…06 Dec 2021HANSARDStorm Arwen: Power OutagesI thank the engineers, the Army, the emergency services and, most of all, local people in affected areas for their heroic response to the crisis. It is totally contemptuous for…06 Dec 2021HANSARDOutcome of COP26I want to commend the COP President, or should I say No Drama Sharma, for his efforts in Glasgow. He is right that we have to spend the next 12 months maximising the pressure on…01 Dec 2021HANSARDStorm ArwenI thank the Secretary of State for his statement. Let me first join him in sending my condolences to the victims who have tragically died during Storm Arwen and to their families.…01 Dec 2021HANSARDOutcome of COP26I know I am shadowing the Department that the right hon. Gentleman would quite like to run, so perhaps that announcement will be forthcoming in the future. I am mildly encouraged…01 Dec 2021HANSARDBulb Energy: Administration(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy if he will make a statement on Bulb Energy entering administration.24 Nov 2021HANSARDBulb Energy: AdministrationIt is right that the Secretary of State has been forced to come to the House: 18 companies have gone bust since he last came to the House in respect of this issue, in September,…24 Nov 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsI join the Secretary of State in commending the COP26 President on the progress made at COP26, but we know much greater action is required, and it is the Secretary of State’s job…16 Nov 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe Secretary of State should not be defending the Australian Government’s 2030 target. It is he who said about the negotiations: “There may have been an issue about specifically…16 Nov 2021HANSARDIncome Tax (Charge)That is definitely the Whips Office’s talking point. The reality is— [ Interruption. ] I will tell them: our last manifesto said that “the substantial majority of our emissions…28 Oct 2021HANSARDIncome Tax (Charge)The hon. Gentleman makes an important point. We have been successful in offshore wind generation, and it is right to acknowledge that. The ground was laid by the last Labour…28 Oct 2021HANSARDIncome Tax (Charge)That is a very important point. The championing of ExcludedUK is a very important issue, and my hon. Friend is right to point it out. This is about choices. Amazon gets help from…28 Oct 2021HANSARDIncome Tax (Charge)The right hon. Gentleman was asked a very direct question, as he said, by my right hon. Friend the Member for East Ham (Stephen Timms). The right hon. Gentleman acknowledged two…28 Oct 2021HANSARDIncome Tax (Charge)My hon. Friend puts it incredibly well. That is why the boosterism of the Chancellor saying that it is an age of optimism will ring so hollow for so many people in our country.…28 Oct 2021HANSARDIncome Tax (Charge)My hon. Friend is completely right and I will come to that point in a moment. The Government will no doubt have all kinds of excuses, but this is a sin of commission, not just…28 Oct 2021HANSARDIncome Tax (Charge)It is certainly not those with the broadest shoulders who are being affected, and I thought the reason that the Government raised taxes was for social care. It is yet another…28 Oct 2021HANSARDIncome Tax (Charge)I will make some progress and finish. Labour would deliver a climate investment pledge of £28 billion extra every year for the rest of the decade. That is an investment in…28 Oct 2021HANSARDIncome Tax (Charge)I completely agree. I actually take a crumb of comfort from the Business Secretary, when he defends the sorry saga of the green homes grant, pointing to some of the money given to…28 Oct 2021HANSARDIncome Tax (Charge)It is completely consistent, yes. Let me turn from industry to retrofit and insulation. Of all the things that were missing from the Budget and that I thought the Treasury would…28 Oct 2021HANSARDIncome Tax (Charge)The hon. Lady is completely right about that. She anticipates my next point brilliantly; it is a useful segue. If we want to understand why growth is so anaemic, she is right that…28 Oct 2021