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HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Fifth sitting)I thank all Members for an interesting debate. Amendment 83 was tabled by the hon. Member for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine. He is ever present in these discussions, but never…13 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Fifth sitting)The Minister for Energy made it on to this Committee; the shadow Minister for Energy could have made it on to this Committee as well, so my hon. Friend should not withdraw his…13 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Fifth sitting)I thank the hon. Gentleman for that important intervention. I will turn to the substance of the amendment before I get into trouble, Mrs Hobhouse. The amendment seeks to set the…13 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Fifth sitting)Again, there is a balance to be struck: we do not want to create a fixed set of national guidelines that preclude larger scale projects that would not disrupt existing forestry. I…13 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Fifth sitting)I thank all hon. Members for their contributions. The hon. Member for Hamble Valley has taken the right tone, which is that our forestry land is to be treasured and protected for…13 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Fifth sitting)The clause enables the generation of electricity from renewable sources within the public forest estate through inserting a new section into the Forestry Act 1967. Our public…13 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Fifth sitting)We come to the most exciting clause in the Bill: the offshore transmission owner, or OFTO, regime. I can see everyone is on the edge of their seats. This is an incredibly…13 May 2025HANSARDEnergy Security and Net ZeroSecondly, as clause 14 amends schedule 8 to the 1989 Act to allow the Secretary of State or Scottish Ministers to make regulations about applications made to Scottish Ministers,…12 May 2025HANSARDEnergy Security and Net ZeroSecondly, as clause 14 amends schedule 8 to the 1989 Act to allow the Secretary of State or Scottish Ministers to make regulations about applications made to Scottish Ministers,…12 May 2025HANSARD New Nuclear Projects: WylfaI think they call that my full Sunday title, Sir John. I thank the hon. Member for Ynys Môn (Llinos Medi) for securing this debate and also, as I said to her in the House last…07 May 2025HANSARD New Nuclear Projects: WylfaI will come on to the question of siting in a moment. I do not want to be drawn into the particulars of the SMR competition because Ministers are not involved in that at the…07 May 2025HANSARD New Nuclear Projects: WylfaI thank my hon. Friend, not least because that is the very next part of my speech, so it is excellent timing. The history of Wylfa is important to our energy story, but so is the…07 May 2025HANSARD New Nuclear Projects: WylfaI thank the right hon. Lady for that point. Trawsfynydd—I think that is the correct pronunciation —is potentially also an important site for future nuclear, but she is right to…07 May 2025HANSARDElectricity Security and Decarbonisation: Government ResponsesI am tabling this statement to inform Members of two publications relating to the capacity market. Both publications are Government responses to the recent consultation and call…06 May 2025HANSARD Energy ResilienceThank you, Mr Efford, for chairing this debate. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Worcester (Tom Collins) for securing it and for all his experience in this area, which is of…06 May 2025HANSARD Energy Grid ResilienceMy hon. Friend is perhaps referring to the most recent situation at Heathrow. The Secretary of State commissioned a report after that incident to find out what the causes were,…30 Apr 2025HANSARD Energy Grid ResilienceWith permission, Mr Speaker, I will make a statement on the resilience of the UK’s energy grid in the context of the widespread power outages experienced across the Iberian…30 Apr 2025HANSARD Energy Grid ResilienceI shall start with the more serious of the hon. Gentleman’s questions, and then, in reply to some of his other questions, I might gently remind him who was in office not that long…30 Apr 2025HANSARD Energy Grid ResilienceI have to apologise to the former Prime Minister, but I have been a little busy over the last few days and have not read all of his report.30 Apr 2025HANSARD Energy Grid ResilienceI thank the Chair of the Energy Security and Net Zero Committee for his question. Let me reiterate the point that he made and that I will, I suspect, make a number of times during…30 Apr 2025