Contributions
1,629 recent contributions in Hansard
HANSARDDraft Pollution Prevention and Control (Fees) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2025Although it was unclear, I think the Opposition support these regulations. If they do, I am grateful. We do not need to replay the arguments about the dash to clean power, which…20 May 2025HANSARDDraft Pollution Prevention and Control (Fees) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2025Gas is still being produced in this country, and that will continue for many years to come, as the hon. Gentleman knows. We could rehearse these arguments, but I am not sure they…20 May 2025HANSARDAutomotive Manufacturing: EmploymentIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir John, and to have this important debate. I congratulate the hon. Member for Reigate (Rebecca Paul) on securing the debate…07 May 2025HANSARD Energy Prices: Energy-intensive IndustriesI thank my hon. Friend for her championing of her constituency. I am still to visit, and I must do that, because I know she has many exciting places for me to see. Electrifying…01 May 2025HANSARD Energy Prices: Energy-intensive IndustriesThe North sea fields are a declining basin. We lost 70,000 jobs under the previous Government. Something like only one in 10 of the licences that have been approved over recent…01 May 2025HANSARD Energy Prices: Energy-intensive IndustriesI can give the hon. Gentleman reassurance that we are looking at all options to support the steel industry, which is foundational to our country. He makes the correct points about…01 May 2025HANSARD Energy Prices: Energy-intensive IndustriesWe are obviously keen to do what we can to support the Scottish whisky industry. I have been to see it and understand how important it is. The definitions of energy-intensive…01 May 2025HANSARD Energy Prices: Energy-intensive IndustriesThe Conservative party is hiding behind this new-found scepticism of net zero to conceal its complete failure to support and grow our foundational and manufacturing industries on…01 May 2025HANSARD Energy Prices: Energy-intensive IndustriesThe right hon. Gentleman makes a perfectly reasonable point. We have a national consensus that we need to act, and I think the population are with us on that. They understand that…01 May 2025HANSARD Energy Prices: Energy-intensive IndustriesI thank my right hon. Friend the Committee Chair for his question. Of course this is a huge issue. Under the previous Government, industrial energy prices doubled, and as my right…01 May 2025HANSARD Energy Prices: Energy-intensive IndustriesI think it was probably the Minister for Energy, my hon. Friend the Member for Rutherglen (Michael Shanks), who gave that assurance to the hon. Gentleman, and he is looking at all…01 May 2025HANSARD Energy Prices: Energy-intensive IndustriesWe are happy to look at a range of options. The whole point of the clean energy plan is that we are using a very diverse range of interventions, some of which are more high-tech…01 May 2025HANSARD Energy Prices: Energy-intensive IndustriesThe hon. Lady is right to point out that there is a lot of misinformation in this space, and it is often used by the Conservatives to hide their own failings in government. Of…01 May 2025HANSARDIndustrial Strategy: Chemicals SectorI do not want to underestimate the challenges that the chemical sector faces. Between 2021 and 2024, UK chemicals manufacturing fell in real terms by about a third. We are working…01 May 2025HANSARDIndustrial Strategy: Chemicals SectorThe industrial strategy has identified eight key growth-driving sectors that will be the arrowhead of our economic success, but of course they cannot succeed without the critical…01 May 2025HANSARD Energy Prices: Energy-intensive IndustriesI relay my thoughts to the workers in my hon. Friend’s constituency, for whom I know this is a worrying time. I thank my hon. Friend for raising the issue. He is a tireless…01 May 2025HANSARDIndustrial Strategy: Chemicals SectorWhen we look at the eight sectors that we are trying to turbocharge through the industrial strategy, we see that the chemicals sector underpins so many other sectors. We need to…01 May 2025HANSARD Energy Prices: Energy-intensive IndustriesThere was no coherence under the previous Government, and there will be coherence under this Government. We are developing our plan of support for our foundational industries in…01 May 2025HANSARD Energy Prices: Energy-intensive IndustriesThe hon. Member is right to raise this issue, and the figure for manufacturing in Northern Ireland of 15% or 16% is high. Yesterday, I was with trade unionists from Shorts…01 May 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy hon. Friend and several other Welsh colleagues have been talking to me about this. We renegotiated the deal with Port Talbot and the £500 million that goes alongside that. I…01 May 2025