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HANSARD Small Modular Reactors: Government FundingThank you very much, Mr Deputy Speaker, for chairing this timely debate on modular nuclear reactors in the United Kingdom. Until recently, we took our dependence on electricity…07 Sept 2022HANSARD Small Modular Reactors: Government FundingI agree. I welcome the Government’s action to bolster our energy resilience: finally increasing UK gas storage capacity, investing in better insulation for our homes, growing the…07 Sept 2022HANSARD Small Modular Reactors: Government FundingI will make some progress, if I may. We have Hinkley Point and Sizewell C coming online, adding 3,000 MW to the grid, but it will be a full decade before they start to add their…07 Sept 2022HANSARD Small Modular Reactors: Government FundingI will make a little more progress and then give way. I know that this is an important debate. That last point brings me to the subject that we are discussing today: Britain’s…07 Sept 2022HANSARD Small Modular Reactors: Government FundingI am grateful for that intervention, which confirms that there is a desire to see these reactors built here in the UK. Initially they will all be built in a single factory, which,…07 Sept 2022HANSARD Small Modular Reactors: Government FundingI would love to be the one who gifts these locations, and I would be grateful—I am sure the Minister is hearing this—if those five locations then received potential building…07 Sept 2022HANSARD Small Modular Reactors: Government FundingI am grateful to my hon. Friend for her intervention, and I commend her work in chairing the all-party parliamentary group. I hope that her comments will fall on the welcome ears…07 Sept 2022HANSARDCHOGM, G7 and NATO SummitsI very much welcome the Prime Minister’s statement. I ask him: was there general agreement at all three summits that our fragile rules-based order is under threat, and that…04 Jul 2022HANSARD Business of the HouseI strongly commend the Government’s exemplary support for Ukraine, but when the head of the British Army compares today to 1937, we must listen and we must act. This is clearly…30 Jun 2022HANSARD British Council Contractors: AfghanistanThe bigger picture is that we chose to abandon Afghanistan and hand it back to the very insurgents we went in to defeat. We make grand promises to help the people of Afghanistan,…23 Jun 2022HANSARDUkraine: UK and NATO Military CommitmentFirst, may I thank you, Mr Speaker, for the flag-raising ceremony that you hosted today to mark Armed Forces Week? The Prime Minister was right to visit Ukraine last week. The UK…20 Jun 2022HANSARDUkraine: UK and NATO Military CommitmentTo ask the Minister to make a statement on the UK’s and NATO’s military commitment to Ukraine.20 Jun 2022HANSARDUkraine UpdateThe rising price of food in this country and across Europe and beyond reminds us why Ukraine is the breadbasket of Europe. As the Foreign Secretary has said, the port of Odesa,…16 Jun 2022HANSARDBusiness of the HouseThe rising cost of energy bills in the UK underlines the importance of security of energy supply. Rolls-Royce has developed a state of the art modular nuclear reactor. Each such…16 Jun 2022HANSARDHM Passport Office BacklogI look forward to hearing what the Minister has to say. This is an important issue. We want to get these passports sorted. However, this backlog has been unprecedented. I did not…14 Jun 2022HANSARDHM Passport Office BacklogI am grateful to the Minister. I should first declare an interest: I am a US dual national and have to replace my passport soon, and I have been warned to anticipate an 11-week…14 Jun 2022HANSARDSupport for Ukraine’s MilitaryIf all NATO countries had provided the same scale of support to Ukraine as Britain has there is every possibility that Russian forces would now have been pushed out of mainland…13 Jun 2022HANSARD Northern Ireland Protocol: First Treasury CounselI congratulate both Ministers, my right hon. Friend the Member for Braintree (James Cleverly) and my right hon. Friend the Member for Bournemouth West (Conor Burns), on their…09 Jun 2022HANSARD UkraineThere is no doubt that, when dealing with a country such as Russia that is armed with tactical low-yield nuclear weapons, which we do not have in huge numbers in our arsenal, we…25 May 2022HANSARD UkraineMy hon. Friend has been very generous in giving way. I was pleased to attend the Lennart Meri security conference in Tallinn last weekend, and my right hon. Friend the Minister…25 May 2022