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HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Sixth sitting)It is a delight to serve under your chairship, Ms Jardine. I welcome these proposals. This is a major reform that will allow the Government to speed up the delivery of vital…13 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Fifth sitting)Will the shadow Minister give way?13 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Fifth sitting)Can I withdraw my criticism about the absence of the shadow Minister for Energy?13 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Sixth sitting)I thank the shadow Minister for his intervention. I do not disagree. Instavolt, one of the largest public electric vehicle rapid charging network providers in my constituency of…13 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Sixth sitting)I, too, rise to support the measures. The Committee heard evidence from developers that they do not at all mind paying higher fees as long as they get a fast, quality service that…13 May 2025HANSARD Energy Grid ResilienceI welcome the Minister’s statement and the measured way in which he has approached the situation. As he and other Members have said, these kinds of blackouts happen, whether…30 Apr 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Third sitting)It is useful to reflect on what Cavendish Consulting said in responding to these proposals: “Removing a lot of the tick box requirements of a statutory consultation opens up an…29 Apr 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Third sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mrs Hobhouse. I note the hon. Member’s comments about how the Government arrange the witness sessions, but surely she would not…29 Apr 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Fourth sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Twigg. Might it not be that the hon. Member for Hamble Valley is embarrassed by his party on net zero? After all, on 17 January…29 Apr 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [Lords]I am grateful to my hon. Friend for her gift of an intervention, and I wholeheartedly agree with her sentiments about women’s football, which is a basic part of Basingstoke Town…28 Apr 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [Lords]It is indeed.28 Apr 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [Lords]Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. There is no place I would rather be than following the hon. Member for Great Yarmouth (Rupert Lowe), with his interesting view that the issues of…28 Apr 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Second sitting)Q I am afraid that my questions are also to Richard, so apologies to the other witnesses. I want to go back to your original comment about nature and development not needing to be…24 Apr 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (First sitting)Q I thank our witnesses for coming. My question concerns growth and the timeline of the NSIP regime. We know there was a significant deterioration, as the Minister said, between…24 Apr 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Second sitting)Q You both worked for the previous Government in different roles, one in housing and the other in climate and the environment. Are there things in the Bill that you would have…24 Apr 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Second sitting)Q Rachel, on the hope value, you used the phrase, “through no fault of their own”. Is that not the point of reforms to hope value? Hope value comes about through the granting of…24 Apr 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Second sitting)Q I am grateful to the Ministers to for giving up their time. My question is really about whether there is a trade-off between nature and development. Given what has been said by…24 Apr 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (First sitting)Q It was not that long ago that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine resulted in a massive income shock because our energy system is not that secure. Building on the Minister’s question…24 Apr 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (First sitting)Q Very quickly, can you say something about the benefits, in terms of economic growth, of electrifying the economy? Dhara Vyas: I think it links neatly to the last question around…24 Apr 2025HANSARD UK-US Trade and TariffsIn January 2017, the then Conservative Foreign Secretary claimed that the UK would be “first in line” for a US trade deal; 2,722 days later, when the Conservatives left office,…03 Apr 2025