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HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (First sitting)Finally, Dhara, picking up on the questions on connections reform and the wider push in the Bill on how we build network infrastructure more quickly and the ambition of that, how…24 Apr 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (First sitting)Q Christianna, this Bill has a significant amount of planning reform in England and Wales, but the key element in the energy space in chapter 2 is around the reforms to Scottish…24 Apr 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (First sitting)Q Good afternoon. Thank you for joining us. As a Government we have set out the ambitious clean power by 2030 plan, which involves significant roll-out of renewables. Key to that…24 Apr 2025HANSARDNorth Sea Oil and Gas Workers: Transitional SupportI was going to come to that point, which has been well made. In both consultations, we are looking internally at how quickly we can turn around the responses. Clearly, there is a…23 Apr 2025HANSARDNorth Sea Oil and Gas Workers: Transitional SupportI thank my hon. Friend for his contribution, but he tempts me into both concluding a consultation and speaking on behalf of the Treasury—two things that I absolutely will not do.…23 Apr 2025HANSARDNorth Sea Oil and Gas Workers: Transitional SupportI thank my hon. Friend for his contribution to the debate. He is right that it is about not just the passporting and the training available but, importantly, the ability of…23 Apr 2025HANSARDNorth Sea Oil and Gas Workers: Transitional SupportIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Sir Desmond. I join others in congratulating the hon. Member for Aberdeen North (Kirsty Blackman), not just for securing this…23 Apr 2025HANSARDNorth Sea Oil and Gas Workers: Transitional SupportI thank the shadow Minister for making that point. We deliberately launched the consultation on the future of energy and the Treasury consultation on the future of the EPL at the…23 Apr 2025HANSARD Onshore Wind and Solar GenerationWith your leave, Madam Deputy Speaker, I will respond briefly to some of the points raised in the debate, but I will not detain the House long, as I know we are keen to progress…02 Apr 2025HANSARD Onshore Wind and Solar GenerationThe hon. Gentleman has asked me a number of written questions on this topic to try to get to the heart of the matter, and he is now testing me on the number, which I think we did…02 Apr 2025HANSARD Onshore Wind and Solar GenerationI thank my hon. Friend for the point, although I am disappointed, because while he normally invites me to visit Cornwall, he did not on this occasion. I will not take it…02 Apr 2025HANSARD Onshore Wind and Solar GenerationThe right hon. Gentleman raises an important point. As I have always said from the Dispatch Box in this role, there is a balance to be struck here. We need to build nationally…02 Apr 2025HANSARD Onshore Wind and Solar GenerationI will make a little progress and come back to the right hon. Gentleman. Although we have 90 minutes, I am conscious of time. This instrument is about making sure that onshore…02 Apr 2025HANSARD Onshore Wind and Solar GenerationWe really are stretching this debate, but I am very happy to discuss this matter. The point has been raised on a number of occasions, and the answer is always the same: it is not…02 Apr 2025HANSARD Onshore Wind and Solar GenerationI will, then I need to make progress.02 Apr 2025HANSARD Onshore Wind and Solar GenerationI thank my hon. Friend for that warm invitation; I will of course consider it, and I look forward to visiting her constituency at some point. She makes an extremely important…02 Apr 2025HANSARD Onshore Wind and Solar GenerationI have given way already. Turning back to the statutory instrument in front of us, until recently the de facto ban on onshore wind generation in England introduced by the…02 Apr 2025HANSARD Onshore Wind and Solar GenerationI give credit to the right hon. Gentleman for the ingenious way he brought that up in a debate on solar and wind in the UK. He raises a good point. We are looking at the detail of…02 Apr 2025HANSARD Onshore Wind and Solar GenerationI beg to move, That the draft Infrastructure Planning (Onshore Wind and Solar Generation) Order 2025, which was laid before this House on 10 March, be approved. Good afternoon,…02 Apr 2025HANSARD Great British Energy BillI am pleased that the Great British Energy Bill has returned to this House. I would like to thank all Members of both Houses for their scrutiny of this important legislation. I…25 Mar 2025