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HANSARDEnvironment and Climate ChangeI thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. Let us show today that the political will is here, in this Parliament, to declare the climate emergency, which we believe is…01 May 2019HANSARDEngagementsThe Prime Minister seems to have her head in the sand. The reality is that £7 billion has been cut from adult social care since 2010. The system is teetering on the brink of…01 May 2019HANSARDEngagementsMany of those people receiving food parcels, the number of which has increased by 600,000 in four years, are actually in work, and that is down to their low wages. Indeed, wages…01 May 2019HANSARDEngagementsLife expectancy has fallen by six months, and infant mortality is up and rising. This month, we also learned that a record 1.6 million food parcels were given out last year alone.…01 May 2019HANSARDEngagementsThe reality is that social mobility is going backwards and things are getting worse under this Government. I will give an example: life expectancy in Britain is falling for the…01 May 2019HANSARDEnvironment and Climate ChangeI do not regret any of the statements I made in the 2015 leadership campaign. I was talking then about the way in which the coalmining communities in south Wales had been so…01 May 2019HANSARDEnvironment and Climate ChangeI give way to the Chair of the Environmental Audit Committee.01 May 2019HANSARDEnvironment and Climate ChangeI thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. Obviously, aircraft emissions are one of the major problems we face in this country and all around the world. Like him and other…01 May 2019HANSARDEnvironment and Climate ChangeI congratulate the hon. Member for Totnes (Dr Wollaston), who represents an absolutely wonderful town where environment is at the core of the lives of many people. We are not here…01 May 2019HANSARDEnvironment and Climate ChangeMr Speaker, you are absolutely the last person I would want to be offensive to, so I apologise. We would ensure that there is a dynamic relationship with those regulations, so I…01 May 2019HANSARDEnvironment and Climate ChangeThe right hon. Gentleman makes a fair point. In a former life, I was a trade union organiser and negotiator. Even then we were discussing with the pension fund trustees how they…01 May 2019HANSARDEnvironment and Climate ChangeIndeed, what we need is a sustainable energy policy and I will come on to that. I obviously pay tribute to the hon. Lady for the work she has done on this. Often, she and I have…01 May 2019HANSARDEnvironment and Climate ChangeI will give way a couple more times but then I ought to get on with my speech, or else the Speaker will tell me off because others want to speak.01 May 2019HANSARDEnvironment and Climate ChangeWe want a sustainable energy policy in this country. I did not hear all of the hon. Gentleman’s intervention as others were talking, but if he is talking about issues of fracking…01 May 2019HANSARDEnvironment and Climate ChangeThe whole point of today’s debate is to declare an emergency to focus the attention of all of us on the sheer urgency of the issue because it is not going to go away; it is going…01 May 2019HANSARDEnvironment and Climate ChangeI thank my hon. Friend for that intervention, the work her Committee does and the report it produced. The watchdog has to have all the teeth necessary to make sure the actions are…01 May 2019HANSARDEnvironment and Climate ChangeI am going to make some progress before giving way to some more colleagues. I have been a Member of this House for 36 years. In that time I have observed something about this…01 May 2019HANSARDEnvironment and Climate ChangeI am not entirely sure what point the hon. Lady is trying to make, but I am pleased she is here today and I look forward to hearing her contribution.01 May 2019HANSARDEnvironment and Climate ChangeI compliment my hon. Friend on her work. An audit like that would be an appropriate response to the debate we are having today. She is right to suggest that unless we examine…01 May 2019HANSARDEnvironment and Climate ChangeI absolutely agree with my hon. Friend. I will come on to the work done by the previous Labour Government, which did so much to try and bring about awareness of the climate…01 May 2019