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HANSARDGreen HydrogenI welcome the Prime Minister’s 10-point plan announcement of the proposal to develop 5 GW of low-carbon hydrogen production capacity by 2030 and, as the Minister has mentioned,…09 Feb 2021HANSARDCorporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 (Coronavirus) (Extension of the Relevant Period) (No. 2) Regulations 2020It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Rees. I do not think that this afternoon’s proceedings will detain us overlong; as colleagues who have taken part in past…11 Jan 2021HANSARD UK Hydrogen EconomyI congratulate the hon. Member for Rother Valley (Alexander Stafford) on securing the debate, having guided it through the Backbench Business Committee process. He made an…17 Dec 2020HANSARDHydrogen EnergyI am pleased to see that the net zero hydrogen fund that the Secretary of State just mentioned will support, among other things, the production of hydrogen. Will he commit today…15 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Eleventh sitting)My hon. Friend is absolutely right. If I went to my bank manager, who had called me in about my overdraft, and I said, “I don’t need to say anything other than, ‘I may pay it…10 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Twelfth sitting)I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. Hon. Members will be sad to know that I have failed in the ballot to be one of the 2,000 supporters to watch Southampton…10 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Eleventh sitting)I understand the purpose of the clause and, as the Minister indicated, the question of national security is very important. I can imagine circumstances in which the Secretary of…10 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Twelfth sitting)I respectfully ask the Minister to reflect carefully on what I and the hon. Member for Glenrothes have said this afternoon. Whether or not the Minister thinks the new clause is…10 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Eleventh sitting)I beg to move amendment 29, in clause 53, page 32, line 30, leave out “may” and insert “shall”. This amendment would require the Secretary of State to set out the process to be…10 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Eleventh sitting)We start today’s proceedings with the most innocuous amendment imaginable—it is so innocuous that it is in the realms of “barely noticeable”. It is particularly innocuous in terms…10 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Eleventh sitting)Even though the Minister has worked well with the CMA, as he has just said, and is assured that the relationship will work well, he has put it into legislation just to make sure…10 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Eleventh sitting)I note that the Minister has used precisely the opposite argument that he used for the last clause, relating to the word “must”. In clause 56, the CMA “must” give the Secretary of…10 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Eleventh sitting)I wonder whether my hon. Friend might be tempted to use a bank manager comparison here as well. If I was summoned by my bank manager to the bank, and he or she said, “It appears…10 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Eleventh sitting)The Minister has used a bank manager defence. If my bank manager wrote to me to say, “You have an overdraft that you must pay,” and I wrote back and said, “Dear Bank Manager, I…10 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Eleventh sitting)I think we can agree that it was brief. Bills would come to Ministers, fresh from the wells of construction and the pushing of pens to get them into good shape. I wonder whether…10 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Tenth sitting)My hon. Friend somehow suggests that I have knowledge and expertise beyond my calling. I should say that I am not a lawyer, so I have only limited guidance to give her on this.…08 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Ninth sitting)The amendment follows on from a number of concerns that have been raised about small businesses, their role in the production of information and attendance notices, and the effect…08 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Ninth sitting)My hon. Friend makes an important point about the overall effect that shining a light on proceedings, and accounting for them, will have. She emphasises that it will be important…08 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Ninth sitting)I am grateful to the hon. Lady for that interestingly injected intervention— [ Laughter. ]08 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Ninth sitting)It is the way I tell them.08 Dec 2020