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HANSARD Retained EU Law: Trading StandardsWhat is obsolete, following the decisions of the courts, is the hon. Member’s separatist party’s desire to have a referendum and the false narrative of some partnership of nations…12 Jan 2023HANSARD Retained EU Law: Trading StandardsIf I was going to give way I would have given way by now. The hon. Gentleman may sit down, and I will let him know if I am going to give way. This Government are committed to…12 Jan 2023HANSARD Retained EU Law: Trading StandardsI will move on. By ending the special status of retained EU law, we will reassert the sovereignty of Parliament. I think that is what makes the separatists so unhappy: they hate…12 Jan 2023HANSARD Retained EU Law: Trading StandardsI congratulate the hon. Member for Glasgow East (David Linden) on securing this important debate. I listened to his contribution and the interventions of other Members with…12 Jan 2023HANSARD Retained EU Law: Trading StandardsWe have heard enough fictions and untruths already, and we do not need any more.12 Jan 2023HANSARD Retained EU Law: Trading StandardsDoes the hon. Gentleman want to leave that on the statute book, so that we must retain those bits? We have gone through that and come up with a practical solution. That is what…12 Jan 2023HANSARD Retained EU Law: Trading StandardsI happily and quickly do so. I am sure any misrepresentations were, in the parlance, inadvertent. There is retained EU law that underpins various areas of consumer protections and…12 Jan 2023HANSARDFossil Fuels and Cost of Living IncreasesI congratulate the hon. Member for Brighton, Pavilion (Caroline Lucas) on securing this important debate and I thank the other hon. Members who have taken part for sharing their…11 Jan 2023HANSARDFossil Fuels and Cost of Living IncreasesAs we know, the price of oil and gas has gone up, and hopefully it will go down again and become more affordable. Scotland is an integral part of this United Kingdom, which is why…11 Jan 2023HANSARDFossil Fuels and Cost of Living IncreasesA reduction in tax from a level that is way above that which any other type of company pays in this country is not a subsidy, and anyone who suggests it is is dealing in semantics…11 Jan 2023HANSARDFossil Fuels and Cost of Living Increasesrose—11 Jan 2023HANSARDFossil Fuels and Cost of Living IncreasesWe are a net importer of oil and gas, and we will continue to be. New licences simply help us manage a fast declining basin. Even with new licences, the production is falling by…11 Jan 2023HANSARDFossil Fuels and Cost of Living IncreasesThere are 120,000 jobs, most of them in Scotland, dependent on oil and gas. I was delighted to witness the signing of a memorandum of understanding with three major oil and gas…11 Jan 2023HANSARDFossil Fuels and Cost of Living IncreasesI thank the hon. Lady. The cost of living crisis is because of the global position on the price of gas, driven by supply and demand, as every market is. She speaks as if there is…11 Jan 2023HANSARDFossil Fuels and Cost of Living IncreasesTo deal with prepayment meters, which the hon. Lady raised, Ofgem has rules in place that restrict the forced fitting of prepayment meters on customers who are in debt, except as…11 Jan 2023HANSARDStrangford Lough: Tidal Wave EnergyI congratulate the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon). As I look around the Chamber, I am taken back to that Westminster Hall debate to which he referred; it feels like the…10 Jan 2023HANSARDStrangford Lough: Tidal Wave EnergyFurther information—we released some information before Christmas—for AR5 will come out shortly ahead of the launch of AR5, which of course has now been moved on to an annual…10 Jan 2023HANSARDStrangford Lough: Tidal Wave EnergyThat leads me naturally on to our system. What we try to do across all technologies, places and companies is to create an architecture that is fair, transparent and predictable—as…10 Jan 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill Relief Scheme Pass-through Requirement (Heat Suppliers) (Amendment) Regulations 2022I think the hon. Gentleman knows that he utterly mischaracterises the regulations. We legislate all the time for every kind of group in business and society without a database of…09 Jan 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill Relief Scheme Pass-through Requirement (Heat Suppliers) (Amendment) Regulations 2022As I said, the instrument was laid before the House back in December. I cannot provide the Committee with an update at this precise moment, but I know that the information has…09 Jan 2023