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HANSARDEnergy Bill [Lords]My right hon. Friend touches on a point that I was going to raise later. My concern about the banning of gas boilers from 2024 is the impact that that will have on industry and on…09 May 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [Lords]Does my right hon. Friend agree that a lot more research needs to be done on where these storage facilities are based? Thermal runaway can cause fires that take several days to…09 May 2023HANSARDAUKUS Defence PartnershipI congratulate my hon. and learned Friend on the work he has done with his Department, his team, and the Ministry of Defence as a whole. The changing geopolitical landscape, and…14 Mar 2023HANSARDHS2: Revised Timetable and BudgetSo far, the Minister has rightly been talking about phase 1 and phase 2a, but not about phase 2b. My constituents and I are sick to death of waiting for the inevitable…14 Mar 2023HANSARDIntegrated Review RefreshI very much welcome the review that my right hon. Friend has announced today. He spoke about the relevance of the critical minerals strategy. May I highlight something for him to…13 Mar 2023HANSARDDefence ProcurementWould my right hon. Friend agree that defence procurement is a complex issue but not the total disaster that it is often presented as? When compared with the naval procurement of…13 Mar 2023HANSARD Russia’s Grand StrategyI thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention, but the point that I make is this: Putin will observe this situation today with Germany and the tanks and he will also observe the…19 Jan 2023HANSARD Russia’s Grand StrategyWill the hon. Gentleman give way?19 Jan 2023HANSARD Russia’s Grand StrategyWe can find examples from across Government over that period of time. When the invasion happened just under a year ago, many conversations took place, and still take place to this…19 Jan 2023HANSARD Russia’s Grand StrategyWe were having those debates, not least in the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. There was a Rose-Roth seminar of the Parliamentary Assembly in Kyiv in June 2016. The Ukrainians could…19 Jan 2023HANSARD Russia’s Grand StrategyI totally agree. I think a negotiated settlement is a form of appeasement because I just do not believe that it will work in the long run. I genuinely believe that if we say, “OK,…19 Jan 2023HANSARD Russia’s Grand StrategyI am grateful to my hon. Friend for making that point. I do not seek to raise an EU Brexit issue here. I want to highlight where I think there is a real concern about the future…19 Jan 2023HANSARD Russia’s Grand StrategyI congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Harwich and North Essex (Sir Bernard Jenkin) on once again bringing this important debate to the House. I also congratulate all the…19 Jan 2023HANSARD Russia’s Grand StrategyThe NATO Parliamentary Assembly was in Washington in the first week of December, and at that time 42% of residential properties in the whole of Ukraine—not just on the…19 Jan 2023HANSARD Russia’s Grand StrategyIn the debate last year, I made the point that I felt that we were already in a cold war, which some disagreed with. Does my hon. Friend think that our European allies have…19 Jan 2023HANSARDDraft Parliamentary Works Sponsor Body (Abolition) Regulations 2022On that important point about keeping Members up to date, the annual report is useful, but will there be the ability to have interim reports along the way? For example, during Her…12 Dec 2022HANSARDUK Infrastructure Bank Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)I am always grateful for the hon. Gentleman’s input. Personally, I believe we should get on with fracking, and I have licences in my constituency, but that is a decision for the…22 Nov 2022HANSARDUK Infrastructure Bank Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Davies. In terms of investment in infrastructure, the last Labour Government did invest in hospitals and schools and, through…22 Nov 2022HANSARDUK Infrastructure Bank Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)I will, because I like the hon. Member for Glasgow East, but I had wrapped up my comments.22 Nov 2022HANSARDUK Infrastructure Bank Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)Twenty-five billion pounds—22 Nov 2022