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HANSARD Contracts for Difference SchemeI can go no further than to say that the right hon. Gentleman, as so often, makes a very strong argument. We will continue to engage and will come forward with any decision on…19 Oct 2023HANSARD Contracts for Difference SchemeI thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention. I will return to the issues relating to Northern Ireland, if I may. I entirely forgive the hon. Member for Coatbridge, Chryston…19 Oct 2023HANSARD Contracts for Difference SchemeIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Dame Angela. I join others, and not least on this occasion the Scottish National spokesperson, the hon. Member for Coatbridge,…19 Oct 2023HANSARD Contracts for Difference SchemeI see that, having been chided, my hon. Friend is looking to intervene on me.19 Oct 2023HANSARD Contracts for Difference SchemeHaving been chided, my hon. Friend is of course—quite rightly, and characteristically—straining to justify his position, and I have a lot of sympathy with it. I have said that we…19 Oct 2023HANSARD Contracts for Difference SchemeI will make a little more progress, if I may. The CfD scheme is a major UK success story. It has secured more than 30 GW of capacity, including 20 GW of offshore wind, since 2014.…19 Oct 2023HANSARD Green Energy: PortsI thank the hon. Gentleman for another excellent and well-made point. One of the biggest challenges facing my Department is ensuring that we have the facilitating infrastructure.…18 Oct 2023HANSARD Green Energy: PortsThen I would be delighted to give way.18 Oct 2023HANSARD Green Energy: PortsIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Cummins. I begin by thanking and congratulating my right hon. Friend the Member for Preseli Pembrokeshire (Stephen Crabb) on…18 Oct 2023HANSARD Green Energy: PortsI certainly sympathise with the Scottish Government’s troubles and challenges with ferries. As the hon. Gentleman suggests, through my officials I will pass on that message to…18 Oct 2023HANSARD Green Energy: PortsWe are working with industry through the Offshore Wind Industry Council, of which I am a co-chair, to consider Tim Pick’s wide-ranging recommendations, including developing an…18 Oct 2023HANSARD Green Energy: PortsI will not. The offshore renewable energy catapult has estimated that floating offshore wind could deliver more than £40 billion for our economy by 2050, creating about 30,000…18 Oct 2023HANSARD Green Energy: PortsI think I am about to be cut off. Are we finishing at 4 pm?18 Oct 2023HANSARD Green Energy: PortsOne recommendation of the Winser report was that we pull together a much more coherent overall spatial plan. In previous years, things were done on a fairly linear basis, as we…18 Oct 2023HANSARDOnshore Wind IndustryMore than 15 GW of onshore wind are deployed in the UK. In our allocation round 5 just the other day, we secured 1.7 GW of onshore wind capacity; allocation round 4 secured 1.5…19 Sept 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsFurther to that point of order, Mr Speaker. The hon. Lady is quite right to raise this in that way, and I am happy both to withdraw that and to apologise to her for getting my…19 Sept 2023HANSARDTopical Questionsrose—19 Sept 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsWe have, of course, met all our carbon budgets to date. In the progress report, the Climate Change Committee said it had increased confidence in our meeting carbon budget 4 and,…19 Sept 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsIt is perhaps typical of my hon. Friend that not only is she asking a question and championing this issue, but she has scheduled a meeting with me immediately afterwards. I look…19 Sept 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsI share the hon. Lady’s enthusiasm for keeping those jobs, which is why we are investing hundreds of millions of pounds to ensure that these industries can make that transition. I…19 Sept 2023