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HANSARDClimate Change Committee Progress Report 2021I am going to make a bit more progress. We intend to upgrade as many homes as possible to energy performance certificate band C by 2035. The hon. Member for Kilmarnock and Loudoun…21 Oct 2021HANSARDClimate Change Committee Progress Report 2021I will make some progress. On transport, the hon. Member for Rochdale makes some good points. Let me tell him what we are doing on transport: the zero-emission vehicle mandate,…21 Oct 2021HANSARDClimate Change Committee Progress Report 2021Let me begin by thanking the Backbench Business Committee for nominating this important debate today, and I also thank my hon. Friend the Member for South Cambridgeshire (Anthony…21 Oct 2021HANSARDClimate Change Committee Progress Report 2021I will make a bit more progress. Nothing in a trade agreement prevents our ability to regulate environmentally or prevents the UK fulfilling its climate change obligations. The…21 Oct 2021HANSARDClimate Change Committee Progress Report 2021I have already outlined the support we are giving to the housing sector overall. If the hon. Gentleman or any other hon. Member wants to write to me with a specific proposal, I am…21 Oct 2021HANSARDClimate Change Committee Progress Report 2021I am going to make progress. On Germany’s net zero strategy, I shared a platform with the German ambassador last night, and both of our countries are very supportive of each…21 Oct 2021HANSARDClimate Change Committee Progress Report 2021I will finish, as I have been speaking for almost half an hour. The net zero strategy sets out clear principles on how we will engage the public and support them to make green…21 Oct 2021HANSARD Carbon Capture and StorageI thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. We have been absolutely clear that the Acorn Scottish cluster is a reserve cluster, and we also have the existing commitment to have…20 Oct 2021HANSARD Carbon Capture and StorageI will not. It was also four days after George Osborne left the House of Commons.20 Oct 2021HANSARD Carbon Capture and StorageI can check back, and I can check with George, but I think the hon. Gentleman’s dates are not correct. On the points raised by the Scottish National party Members, there was quite…20 Oct 2021HANSARD Carbon Capture and StorageLet me start by congratulating my hon. Friend the Member for South Cambridgeshire (Anthony Browne) on securing this important debate, and I thank all Members who have spoken. We…20 Oct 2021HANSARD Carbon Capture and StorageI will deal with the points raised by the hon. Members for the Scottish National party before taking further interventions. As I say, this was a transparent process. We looked at…20 Oct 2021HANSARD Net Zero Strategy and Heat and Buildings StrategyI will of course meet my hon. Friend to discuss that. I thank him for taking a strong interest in my visit to Aberdeen last week. He is right that the oil and gas sector is in…19 Oct 2021HANSARD Net Zero Strategy and Heat and Buildings StrategyThe hon. Lady underestimates our commitment, because it is not 600,000 new heat pumps, but 600,000 new heat pumps per annum by 2028. This is a huge commitment, but it is a…19 Oct 2021HANSARD Net Zero Strategy and Heat and Buildings StrategyI absolutely agree with the hon. Gentleman on working with workforces. The commitment to net zero is a huge, country-wide endeavour and we must carry everybody with us. May I…19 Oct 2021HANSARD Net Zero Strategy and Heat and Buildings StrategyMr Speaker, as a former Chief Secretary to the Treasury, you can imagine that I take a strong and ongoing interest in exactly that sort of question. We at BEIS have those…19 Oct 2021HANSARD Net Zero Strategy and Heat and Buildings StrategyHe is nodding in the affirmative, so that is one more. Like the overall commitment, this commitment is very much on an ongoing basis. I refer the hon. Lady to the transport…19 Oct 2021HANSARD Net Zero Strategy and Heat and Buildings StrategyA very substantial amount of Government money is going into the heat and building strategy— I think it is in the region of £4 billion. I will correct the right hon. Lady. On this…19 Oct 2021HANSARD Net Zero Strategy and Heat and Buildings StrategyI disagree with the hon. Gentleman. The transport section in the net zero strategy is very comprehensive on this and very extensive on how we get more people to switch to electric…19 Oct 2021HANSARD Net Zero Strategy and Heat and Buildings StrategyI refer the hon. Gentleman to the annex of the net zero strategy, which sets out in some detail our response to Lord Deben’s annual report earlier this year. I think he will find…19 Oct 2021