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HANSARDAlleged Spying Case: Home Office InvolvementThe Minister has been asked by numerous people, not least by the shadow Home Secretary and by my right hon. Friend the Member for Beverley and Holderness (Graham Stuart), when the…20 Oct 2025HANSARDOnshore Wind TurbinesEnergy companies of any kind, whether oil and gas or renewables, need certainty to plan to invest, whether it is onshore or offshore. The Government’s consultation on the North…14 Oct 2025HANSARD Energy Profits Levy: North-east ScotlandI completely agree with the hon. Gentleman. I will come on to talk about the drain of investment and other things from north-east Scotland because of the levy. It feels as if it…14 Oct 2025HANSARD Energy Profits Levy: North-east ScotlandI secured this debate because what is happening in north-east Scotland simply cannot go on. Hundreds, if not thousands, of jobs are being lost on a regular basis across our region…14 Oct 2025HANSARD Energy Profits Levy: North-east ScotlandThe Chancellor also extended the levy until March 2030. Just to ensure that the industry was hit from all angles, she abolished the investment allowance, removing the very…14 Oct 2025HANSARD Energy Profits Levy: North-east ScotlandI completely agree with the hon. Gentleman. At no point have I ever said that we should be persisting with oil and gas at the expense of renewables. We 100% need both, but both…14 Oct 2025HANSARD Energy Profits Levy: North-east ScotlandI agree that we want to keep the workers that we have, and the skills and expertise that they have developed, in north-east Scotland because they are of huge value to north-east…14 Oct 2025HANSARD Energy Profits Levy: North-east ScotlandExactly—I thank the hon. Member for that intervention. On that point, I will skip forward a little bit to my first question to the Minister, which is when the Treasury will…14 Oct 2025HANSARD Energy Profits Levy: North-east ScotlandWhat lower revenues from the EPL mean is that oil and gas companies are not investing in the North sea, that production is falling in the North sea, and that, for example,…14 Oct 2025HANSARD Energy Profits Levy: North-east ScotlandIt is absolutely the case—my hon. Friend is completely correct. We are forgoing so many opportunities in the North sea to secure energy for our country and safeguard the skills…14 Oct 2025HANSARD Security Update: Official Secrets Act CaseI am going to keep this quite basic, because I think this is where a lot of the public will come from. The Government should always want to do everything they can, and more, to…13 Oct 2025HANSARD Glasgow Safer Drug Consumption FacilityI thank our Select Committee Chair for the statement—I have a brief question. I am sure that she expects me to say this, but I just want to say for the record that although I…13 Oct 2025HANSARDProperty TaxesOn that point, will the Minister give way?03 Sept 2025HANSARDProperty TaxesI thank the shadow Chancellor for introducing this debate on such an important issue. Properties and assets are vital to the country and to people. On the lifetime limit for…03 Sept 2025HANSARDProperty TaxesThe fact that the Government hope to build all those new homes shows that they recognise the importance and value of a home to a family. The Minister says that he will not talk…03 Sept 2025HANSARDPrax Lindsey Oil RefineryI have listened closely to the Minister’s answers, and he is rightly highlighting the importance of the jobs and the redundancies, but I think we need to be a bit clearer and more…22 Jul 2025HANSARDTaxesIn his speech, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury said that working people are people who go out to work. Do farmers go out to work?15 Jul 2025HANSARDTaxesOn pretending, it seems to me that Labour likes to pretend that the covid pandemic never happened and that the £400 billion that the previous Government spent to protect the…15 Jul 2025HANSARDPlanning System: Community Involvement12. What plans she has to increase community involvement in the planning process.14 Jul 2025HANSARDPlanning System: Community InvolvementI am sure the Minister agrees it is vital that local residents’ concerns are properly listened to, especially on major planning decisions. Having listened to many constituents in…14 Jul 2025