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HANSARDCivil Nuclear Road MapMy right hon. Friend has more or less written the rest of my speech for me. He is right that it is not rocket science; it is nuclear science. And it is pretty straightforward,…22 Feb 2024HANSARDCivil Nuclear Road MapFirst, I congratulate the hon. Member for Folkestone and Hythe (Damian Collins) on securing this timely debate via the Backbench Business process. That is extraordinarily…22 Feb 2024HANSARD Offshore Petroleum Licensing BillThe hon. Member rather gives himself away by the first sentence he read out: “if North Sea production is to cease”. North sea production will not cease—20 Feb 2024HANSARD Offshore Petroleum Licensing BillI think I have already indicated that gas production is predicted to fall by 95% by 2050. The addition of one or two licences will not make any difference at all to that…20 Feb 2024HANSARD Offshore Petroleum Licensing BillThat was the mild version. As the right hon. Member for Reading West (Sir Alok Sharma) has informed us, the Bill legislates for something that happens anyway. It will make no…20 Feb 2024HANSARD Offshore Petroleum Licensing BillI would like to speak to our amendments 17, 18, 19 and 20, to comment on other amendments before us today and then to place all this into the context of the Bill as a whole by way…20 Feb 2024HANSARD Offshore Petroleum Licensing BillThe hon. Lady is absolutely right. New licences are an international issue. If we had new exploration licences around the world, we would simply produce far more oil and gas than…20 Feb 2024HANSARD Offshore Petroleum Licensing BillIt is Labour’s position that we do not wish to see new energy exploration licences issued for the future, but that does not mean that the North sea will not continue in production…20 Feb 2024HANSARD Offshore Petroleum Licensing BillSorry; the Opposition day debate on fracking, which effectively brought down the Truss Government as a result of the various prevarications at the time. I thank the Minister for…20 Feb 2024HANSARD Offshore Petroleum Licensing BillWe are talking about what the Government are doing through this policy—that is what we are concentrating on today. I hope we will have another much wider debate about the effect…20 Feb 2024HANSARD Offshore Petroleum Licensing BillThey will not. I have tried to make it very clear, against what is, frankly, misinformed scaremongering by Government Members, that under Labour’s plans the North sea will, of…20 Feb 2024HANSARD Offshore Petroleum Licensing BillNorth sea production will not cease over a long period of time, and Labour is committed to making sure that that production continues at the appropriate level for the maturity of…20 Feb 2024HANSARD Offshore Petroleum Licensing BillI will make some progress. The Bill, as I have said, will achieve none of its stated aims, but it is far from consequence-free. The consequence is that it makes a mockery of our…20 Feb 2024HANSARD Offshore Petroleum Licensing BillI would not put it into my argument, but I am a little puzzled under those circumstances that the North Sea Transition Authority recently published a factsheet on precisely this…20 Feb 2024HANSARD Offshore Petroleum Licensing BillThe proposition before us today is for mandatory licence rounds in a declining North sea field, which would make no difference in the long term to the total amount of gas that we…20 Feb 2024HANSARD Offshore Petroleum Licensing BillNo, in line with the IEA and the IPCC, I am not in favour of new exploration licences. The point is that, in a declining market, Norwegian supply will continue to be very…20 Feb 2024HANSARD Offshore Petroleum Licensing BillIt is customary on Third Reading to start with thanks, and I would like to thank two groups of people. First, I thank the civil servants who held their noses to write this pile of…20 Feb 2024HANSARDSustainable Aviation FuelAs the Minister will know, the sustainable aviation fuel mandate will come into force in 2025, but meanwhile the Government have not yet responded to consultations on how it will…08 Feb 2024HANSARDSustainable Aviation Fuel6. What steps he is taking with the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero to improve the allocation of resources between the production of sustainable aviation fuel and…08 Feb 2024HANSARD Offshore Petroleum Licensing BillWe have had an excellent and pointed debate this evening. Certainly, Opposition Members have together pointed out the deficiencies in the Bill, pointed out what a specious and…22 Jan 2024