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HANSARD North Sea EnergyMy hon. Friend raises a number of thorny issues relating to ETS, for which I am responsible in the Department. We have been having lots of conversations about how we progress,…06 Mar 2025HANSARD North Sea EnergyI can reassure the hon. Gentleman that I am on planet Earth and that we are well aware of what we are doing. We look at the world around us and see the enormous hike in energy…06 Mar 2025HANSARD North Sea EnergyIf only I was able to confirm what will be in the spring statement, but clearly I cannot do that. We are hugely supportive of the Acorn project, which is an exciting opportunity.…06 Mar 2025HANSARD North Sea EnergyI thank the hon. Lady for her remarks. On upskilling and redeploying workers, as I said previously, we are introducing the passporting scheme and making sure that we can break…06 Mar 2025HANSARD North Sea EnergyForgive me, Madam Deputy Speaker. I am over-enthusiastic and have so many things to say. I always worry when my hon. Friends quote my words back to me. My hon. Friend and I have…06 Mar 2025HANSARD North Sea EnergyI am not sure how many times I will have to go through this, but we are not cutting energy jobs. The North sea is declining because there is less and less oil and gas there. The…06 Mar 2025HANSARD North Sea EnergyI thank my hon. Friend for his work on the Select Committee, which is very important. As he knows, for a long time we have been a bit stuck in trying to set up a passport system…06 Mar 2025HANSARD North Sea EnergyThe shadow Minister quoted trade union representatives, having not met them or supported them in government. That is always rich. [Interruption.] He says that he did; I stand…06 Mar 2025HANSARD North Sea EnergyI meet industry representatives all the time, and their response to Kim McGuiness is great. She is such a force of enthusiasm, knowledge and power for her communities, and people…06 Mar 2025HANSARD North Sea EnergyThe hon. Gentleman raises a really important point. We know that energy bills have been rising because of the oil and gas we rely on and the impact of the war in Ukraine. We have…06 Mar 2025HANSARD North Sea EnergyMy hon. Friend is right to point to the golden triangle of energy security, jobs and climate, and how we can bring them together. I am working hard—not as hard as him; he is…06 Mar 2025HANSARD North Sea EnergyI do not agree with that framing whatsoever. We have Putin who invaded Ukraine, leading to the massive global shock for energy prices, and we have a Secretary of State who is very…06 Mar 2025HANSARD North Sea EnergyThe National Wealth Fund and Great British Energy will be incredibly important in this space. Most countries have a sovereign wealth fund like the National Wealth Fund. We have…06 Mar 2025HANSARD North Sea EnergyMy hon. Friend will know about the announcements that were made recently about support for Grangemouth. In the last couple of weeks, I met INEOS to talk about its chemical factory…06 Mar 2025HANSARD North Sea EnergyThe right hon. Gentleman paints a lovely picture of walking up the hill in his constituency— I am sure we would all enjoy doing that. He makes an important point about solar. We…06 Mar 2025HANSARD North Sea EnergyMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. She was of course referring to the shadow Minister, the hon. Member for West Suffolk (Nick Timothy), who said yesterday that “one of the things…06 Mar 2025HANSARD North Sea EnergyOur manifesto was clear that we would not issue new licences, we would not revoke existing licences, we would manage existing fields for the entirety of their lifespan, and we…06 Mar 2025HANSARD North Sea EnergyI welcome my hon. Friend’s question. What GE Vernova is doing and the jobs it is providing are incredibly important for her community. We will continue to encourage growth in that…06 Mar 2025HANSARD North Sea EnergyI met BP yesterday to talk about that. If we look at somewhere like the US, there are massive supplies of oil and gas. BP has made its decision. We are working with it very…06 Mar 2025HANSARD North Staffordshire Ceramics Industry: Energy CostsMy hon. Friend articulates his concerns very well. Connecting the gas sounds like a song: “The hip bone’s connected to the thigh bone.” It is very challenging, and he is right to…04 Mar 2025