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HANSARDDraft Register of Overseas Entities (Protection and Trusts) (Amendment) Regulations 2025It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Desmond. I am grateful to the Minister for outlining in such detail the provisions of the draft regulations, which build on…29 Jan 2025HANSARDGrowing the UK EconomyGiven that construction of the Oxford to Milton Keynes section of East West Rail was completed when Hugh Merriman, the last Conservative rail Minister, pulled the last rail clip…29 Jan 2025HANSARDRoad Safety: Young DriversI have limited time, but I am happy to take up the debate afterwards. What if the path that a young person wants to go down requires them to be able to drive a car at night? There…28 Jan 2025HANSARDRoad Safety: Young DriversIt is important that we look at all evidence suggesting a problem and explore the basis for solving it, but I am no fan of knee-jerk legislation. This House is at its worst when…28 Jan 2025HANSARDRoad Safety: Young DriversI hesitate to go there, on what is a political point. When we are having a serious debate, comments like that are not necessarily helpful to the spirit of trying to engender…28 Jan 2025HANSARD Solar Farms: Agricultural LandIs it not the case that the Government are just plumping for the technology that is available right now, in the form of thousands of acres of solar, when we need 2,000 acres of…28 Jan 2025HANSARDRoad Safety: Young DriversI promised to give way to the hon. Member for Frome and East Somerset (Anna Sabine), and will just finish this point. Mindful of time, I may then take one or two more…28 Jan 2025HANSARDRoad Safety: Young DriversIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Desmond. I congratulate the hon. Member for Shrewsbury (Julia Buckley) on bringing this important debate to Westminster Hall…28 Jan 2025HANSARDRoad Safety: Young DriversIn a few moments, I will come on to the measures that I think would protect the freedom to drive far better, as well as the safety of those who do so. There will perhaps not be…28 Jan 2025HANSARDRoad Safety: Young DriversI will just expand this point and then give way to the hon. Lady. Since road user casualties peaked in 1965, with nearly 8,000 deaths, there has been a concerted efforts to reduce…28 Jan 2025HANSARD Solar Farms: Agricultural LandI agree with every word the hon. Lady has said so far. Does she agree with me that if we are to protect food security and give it equal billing with energy security and national…28 Jan 2025HANSARDGaza: Humanitarian SituationDeradicalisation must form a key plank of any plan for reconstruction in Gaza, along with ensuring that Hamas have no role in its future running, as the Minister says. However, a…28 Jan 2025HANSARDRoad Safety: Young DriversI thank the hon. Gentleman for that point, and I entirely agree. The younger we can get people into any sort of powered vehicle, so that they can learn how to control it safely in…28 Jan 2025HANSARD Climate and Nature BillThe hon. Lady makes a point about the change that happened in the last Parliament, but she is allowing the facts to get in the way of a good argument. The reality out there is…24 Jan 2025HANSARD Climate and Nature BillI hear the point the hon. Lady makes, but I fundamentally disagree. We already have the direction—it was the last Conservative Government who were the first in the western world…24 Jan 2025HANSARD Climate and Nature BillI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. On his first point, all I will say is: not in Mid Buckinghamshire. They tried, but they got 25% of the vote. To answer…24 Jan 2025HANSARD Climate and Nature BillAll too often in this place and in politics at large, what divides us is not necessarily the end result—in this case reducing emissions, halting the decline of nature and…24 Jan 2025HANSARD Climate and Nature BillIt is slightly worse than that. We heard the debate earlier about the word “and”. Many of these large-scale renewable energy projects such as battery storage are surrounded by…24 Jan 2025HANSARD Unity ContractThis deal is absolutely the right thing to do, and I very much welcome the Minister’s commitment to our continuous at-sea deterrent, which has not always received universal…24 Jan 2025HANSARDClimate and Nature BillWill the hon. Gentleman give way?24 Jan 2025