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HANSARDComprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific PartnershipMy Lords, on the point of membership of this partnership, has the Minister considered the effect of trade with Taiwan in relation to this and relationships with China? What is the…20 Jul 2023HANSARDClimate: Behaviour Change (Environment and Climate Change Committee Report)My Lords, I join others in thanking the noble Baroness, Lady Parminter, for her chairmanship of the committee and for securing this debate. I was grateful to be asked to join the…07 Jun 2023HANSARDDirect Payments to Farmers (Reductions) (England) Regulations 2023My Lords, I declare my farming interests as set out in the register, being a farmer in receipt of payments. I shall speak from a grass-roots perspective and perhaps be a little…28 Mar 2023HANSARDAgriculture (Financial Assistance) (Amendment) Regulations 2023I declare my agricultural interests as recorded on the register, in that I own agricultural land and am in receipt of payments. I thank the Minister for his introduction to the…14 Mar 2023HANSARDSilicon Valley BankAlthough the main reason for Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse may be its poor handling of the bond market, whether or not augmented by aggressive raising of interest rates by the…14 Mar 2023HANSARDNet ZeroChris Skidmore’s Mission Zero review is a very good sense check, an appreciation of the delivery of the measures that are needed and that are being undertaken in the UK at the…26 Jan 2023HANSARDNet-zero Emissions: Behaviour ChangeMy last sentence is this: this is the first mixed message the Government must learn to avoid in the report today.20 Oct 2022HANSARDNet-zero Emissions: Behaviour ChangeI am very grateful to have been nominated to join your Lordships’ Environment and Climate Change Committee on the retirement of our esteemed colleague Lord Puttnam in January. It…20 Oct 2022HANSARDEnergy Prices BillThis Bill comes very late in the present predicament. A poor track record of government action and wrong priorities has brought about a vulnerability to energy shocks, going back…19 Oct 2022HANSARDElectricity and Gas (Energy Company Obligation) Order 2022I thank the Minister for introducing this order and for writing to draw my attention to it, especially to how it is lowering consumer bills. The ECO scheme has been among the…12 Jul 2022HANSARDGovernment Food StrategyI declare my interests as set out in the register. It is to be welcomed that the Government recognise the importance of food, but the strategy should be more dynamic. There are…13 Jun 2022HANSARDQueen’s SpeechI shall concentrate my remarks today on the energy sector and the Government’s plan as outlined in the energy security Bill, with elements necessary through the UK Infrastructure…16 May 2022HANSARDEnergy Storage CapacityIn a climate emergency it makes little sense to increase fossil fuel storage capacity. What steps are the Government taking to speed up battery storage as a vital first step to…05 Apr 2022HANSARDEnergy PricesMy Lords, we all wish to protect vulnerable households, and there are many support schemes targeting approximately 3 million households. The expected increase in the price cap in…12 Jan 2022HANSARDNet-zero Test for New PoliciesMy Lords, of the gaps identified by this letter still needing to be filled in the urgency of the climate challenge in the Glasgow climate pact, perhaps the one identified on…11 Jan 2022HANSARDEnergy CostsI thank the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh, for introducing this topical debate on rising energy costs and their effect on the cost-of-living crisis being felt across communities…06 Jan 2022HANSARDDrax Wood PelletsDrax claims that burning wood pellets is carbon-neutral because trees absorb as much carbon dioxide when they grow as they emit when they are burned. Is the Minister able to…13 Dec 2021HANSARDEnergy: Civil Nuclear PowerI am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Howell, for returning with this subject for debate after its postponement last month. It is a very important area of energy policy that has…09 Dec 2021HANSARDNet-zero EmissionsDecarbonising heat is still a massive challenge, which, as has been mentioned, can be made less so through energy efficiency measures. Given that there are 19 million homes below…07 Dec 2021HANSARDFootball Clubs: Ownership TestI declare my interest as recorded in the register. Would the Minister agree that transparency is an important part of the fit and proper person test? Has the Premier League given…29 Nov 2021