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HANSARDTopical QuestionsI can. What the sector does not need, of course, as OEUK has itself set out, is the tens of thousands of job losses that would be driven by the ideological and climate-damaging…27 Feb 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe hon. Lady is right to salute the astonishing investments that we are seeing throughout the automotive sector, and I am delighted that the Government have been able to help to…27 Feb 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe hon. Lady should, alongside us, celebrate the £500 million that the Government are contributing as part of an overall £1.25 billion investment in the modernisation of steel…27 Feb 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am grateful to my hon. Friend, and he is absolutely right: CCUS has such an important role, and we are committed to those four clusters. As we announced in March last year, we…27 Feb 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsI thank my hon. Friend for his question. As he will know, I cannot comment on a specific proposal. We need to rewire this country in order to have homegrown energy. That means…27 Feb 2024HANSARDEnergy Charter Treaty: UK WithdrawalThe Government have today announced that the UK is withdrawing from the energy charter treaty (ECT). The statement follows the Government’s announcement on 1 September 2023 that…22 Feb 2024HANSARD Offshore Petroleum Licensing BillMy right hon. Friend is absolutely right. That is the absurdity: ending licences will simply increase our imports. It will not change our consumption. If imports such as liquefied…20 Feb 2024HANSARD Offshore Petroleum Licensing Billindicated assent.20 Feb 2024HANSARD Offshore Petroleum Licensing BillThe hon. Lady may not have been present for the previous stage of this Bill, but as she has been present for other debates in this House, I cannot claim that she is an absentee…20 Feb 2024HANSARD Offshore Petroleum Licensing BillI thank the hon. Gentleman, who is a consistent champion not only for his constituents but for the clean transition. I look forward to meeting and working with the new Minister…20 Feb 2024HANSARD Offshore Petroleum Licensing BillIt was not an Adjournment debate—get it right!20 Feb 2024HANSARD Offshore Petroleum Licensing BillOffshore Energies UK has said that if Labour’s policy was implemented, it could cost this country 42,000 jobs and £26 billion of economic value. Perhaps the shadow Minister will…20 Feb 2024HANSARD Offshore Petroleum Licensing BillThe data simply does not exist, as I think I set out. It does not exist and we cannot make a comparison if the data does not exist. We are world-leading in having that data;…20 Feb 2024HANSARD Offshore Petroleum Licensing BillI hesitate to intervene again, but to suggest that this Bill has the assumption that our gas demand remains the same is absolute nonsense. Of course it is coming right down. We…20 Feb 2024HANSARD Offshore Petroleum Licensing BillWhat has that got to do with this?20 Feb 2024HANSARD Offshore Petroleum Licensing BillIt is a pleasure to take part in the debate this afternoon, which has been wide-ranging, well informed and genuinely interesting. I thank Members from across the Committee for…20 Feb 2024HANSARD Offshore Petroleum Licensing BillI will make a little more progress. Annual licensing will improve our energy security and that of our neighbours. It will support 200,000 jobs and safeguard billions in tax…20 Feb 2024HANSARD Offshore Petroleum Licensing BillI promise to come to the hon. Gentleman before I finish. Turning to the amendments selected today, I first thank my right hon. Friend the Member for Reading West (Sir Alok Sharma)…20 Feb 2024HANSARD Offshore Petroleum Licensing BillI thank the hon. Gentleman for his question. He has taken a long and deep interest in this issue, for which I pay him respect. It is the burning of oil and gas that is the primary…20 Feb 2024HANSARD Offshore Petroleum Licensing BillI am going to press on. [ Interruption. ] I do not mean to be rude, but I think I am unlikely, given his previous performance, to be terribly afeared of hearing from the hon.…20 Feb 2024