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HANSARDEuropean CouncilThe Prime Minister’s deal has been rejected twice and no deal has been rejected twice by this Parliament, yet she stands here today threatening that we leave with no deal on 12…25 Mar 2019HANSARD Article 50 Extension ProcedureThe excellent new Clerk of the House has been very clear that the way in which we extend article 50 is by the unanimous agreement of the EU27—we assume that will take place at the…18 Mar 2019HANSARD Far-right Violence and Online ExtremismPeople in Wakefield stand together in solidarity with our Muslim community, the people of Christchurch and the victims here at home and in Utrecht today. May I say to the Minister…18 Mar 2019HANSARDUK’s Withdrawal from the European UnionOn a point of order, Mr Speaker. I am grateful, but the motion you have read out at speed indicates that the Government are clearly making this House a prisoner of their deal. It…13 Mar 2019HANSARDSpring StatementThe DEFRA budget has been cut by 35% over the past eight years, so while I welcome what the Chancellor has said on the future homes standard, which is genuinely new and…13 Mar 2019HANSARD Net Zero Carbon Emissions: UK’s ProgressYou say that!28 Feb 2019HANSARD Net Zero Carbon Emissions: UK’s ProgressThank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. My hon. Friend is right to say that there has been a net increase in transport emissions over the past five years. I want to conclude by talking…28 Feb 2019HANSARD Net Zero Carbon Emissions: UK’s ProgressI totally agree. There is always a danger that we get called a nanny state, but if nannies are good enough for people on very large incomes—naming no names—we should provide the…28 Feb 2019HANSARD Net Zero Carbon Emissions: UK’s ProgressI thought they did, but perhaps I am wrong. It was a machinery of government change. I am happy to be corrected if that is not the case. [Interruption.] It was subsumed into the…28 Feb 2019HANSARD Net Zero Carbon Emissions: UK’s ProgressI passionately agree with the hon. Lady. I taught at Cranfield School of Management for seven years, although we never got too deep into the soil at that point because we were…28 Feb 2019HANSARD Net Zero Carbon Emissions: UK’s ProgressDoes the hon. Lady regret that in government the Liberal Democrats oversaw the scrapping of the Department of Energy and Climate Change—28 Feb 2019HANSARD Net Zero Carbon Emissions: UK’s ProgressI totally and passionately agree. We on the Environmental Audit Committee are privileged to have global thought leaders appearing before us and giving us the best available…28 Feb 2019HANSARD Net Zero Carbon Emissions: UK’s ProgressAbsolutely. I was walking on Lost Lad in my hon. Friend’s constituency at Christmas, and it is an absolutely wonderful part of the world. It is above the Derwent reservoir, and we…28 Feb 2019HANSARD Net Zero Carbon Emissions: UK’s ProgressIndeed it should, but there has to be a baseline measurement, and somebody has to pay for the measurement and the monitoring. The tragedy is that, if we leave the EU, this type of…28 Feb 2019HANSARD Net Zero Carbon Emissions: UK’s ProgressI thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. One of the things we did in our green finance reports last year was talk to the top 25 pension funds in the country and ask them what…28 Feb 2019HANSARD Net Zero Carbon Emissions: UK’s ProgressIt is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Newbury (Richard Benyon). I advise him to keep his mobile phone switched on, given the news that the Fisheries Minister, the…28 Feb 2019HANSARD Net Zero Carbon Emissions: UK’s ProgressI wonder whether the hon. Member for Camborne and Redruth has resigned so that he does not have to answer the letter that my Committee has just drafted, which asks him about our…28 Feb 2019HANSARDExiting the European Union (Consumer Protection)The Minister will be aware that my Committee, the Environmental Audit Committee, held an evidence session in December 2018, subsequent to our report published in 2017, in which we…25 Feb 2019HANSARDExiting the European Union (Consumer Protection)Will the Minister give way?25 Feb 2019HANSARDExiting the European Union (Consumer Protection)I thank my hon. Friend for giving way; she is making an excellent speech and being very generous with her time. I wanted to intervene on the Minister on the issue of…25 Feb 2019