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HANSARD Prevention and Suppression of TerrorismOn a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker, I seek your advice. Recently, Cumberland Council, which incidentally happens to be Labour-led, wrote to me about the impact of the EU’s…13 Sept 2023HANSARDEconomic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill (First sitting)As per my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests, I have been on a trip to Israel funded by Conservative Friends of Israel, and James Gurd is personally known to me.05 Sept 2023HANSARDPrivileges Committee Special ReportAs the right hon. and learned Lady knows from our exchange of letters in recent days, I was named in the annex to the report for a tweet that did not refer to the Committee. The…10 Jul 2023HANSARDPrivileges Committee Special ReportOn a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I fear that the right hon. and learned Lady may have just inadvertently misled the House by suggesting that I called the Committee a…10 Jul 2023HANSARDPrivileges Committee Special Reportrose—10 Jul 2023HANSARDPrivileges Committee Special ReportI agree with the substantive point about the Privileges Committee being given the same protection as the Standards Committee, but you referred to evidence in the report, and I…10 Jul 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Seventeenth sitting)Will my hon. Friend give way?27 Jun 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Seventeenth sitting)I just need to put on the record that the current nuclear fleet generated electricity at £45 per MWh. Once we start building more nuclear, I am sure we can get back to lower…27 Jun 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Seventeenth sitting)I want to check the figure of nine local authorities. In Cumbria, seven local authorities came together to produce a supplementary planning document on wind. That is seven in one…27 Jun 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Fourteenth sitting)Does the hon. Member agree with the former Labour leader of one of the Aberdeen councils, Barney Crockett, that Labour’s energy policy will wreak more harm on industrial…22 Jun 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Fourteenth sitting)The hon. Gentleman says that that point has been debunked, but I actually debunked the debunking in the previous sitting. I am sure he heard those comments. On the issue of 85%…22 Jun 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Fourteenth sitting)The hon. Member is being incredibly generous with his time. On the point on how shipping coal from the UK to Germany lowers emissions, if that happens instead of coal being…22 Jun 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Twelfth sitting)I hope the Minister is going to propose that the Committee visit the facility in Finland. Does he agree that it is unhelpful that our detractors cannot seem to distinguish between…20 Jun 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Twelfth sitting)May I suggest that the hon. Gentleman arranges a visit to Sizewell B to see exactly how we store new nuclear waste from relatively new facilities? Sizewell B was also under an…20 Jun 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Twelfth sitting)I am sorry for taking up so much of the hon. Gentleman’s time this morning, but on that note, I have a drop-in with the Civil Nuclear Police Federation at 12 o’clock today in room…20 Jun 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Twelfth sitting)Room Q in Portcullis House.20 Jun 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Twelfth sitting)I have a constituency interest in a new coalmine in a neighbouring constituency in west Cumbria. Its planning condition is to produce metallurgical coal, which is used in steel…20 Jun 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [Lords] (Thirteenth sitting)The hon. Lady said, “just a year before we are supposed to be at net zero”. Does she realise that we will use oil, gas, coal and all sorts of other critical minerals beyond 2050,…20 Jun 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [Lords] (Thirteenth sitting)I will let the hon. Lady make some progress, but this is simple chemistry. Steel is iron plus carbon. Without carbon, we cannot make steel. The HYBRIT—hydrogen breakthrough…20 Jun 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [Lords] (Thirteenth sitting)I do. I have visited steelworks in the UK and talked through all this. They have a pressing need to decarbonise, and they need to access Government funding to do so, so sometimes…20 Jun 2023