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HANSARDRenewable Energy Providers: Planning ConsiderationsLet me give the hon. Lady a precise example. In Lincolnshire, there are currently applications for large-scale solar developments equivalent to 62 Hyde Parks, totalling 9,109…25 Oct 2023HANSARDRenewable Energy Providers: Planning ConsiderationsSo much for local decision making!25 Oct 2023HANSARDRenewable Energy Providers: Planning ConsiderationsAbsolutely. That brings me to—I do not know whether my hon. Friend anticipated this by a kind of telepathy or just through her wisdom—the next point that I intended to make.…25 Oct 2023HANSARDRenewable Energy Providers: Planning ConsiderationsDenying “our goal”, “our God”—I believe it is the hon. Lady’s God, certainly. She is right that it is important that what we do in respect of energy, which I spend a great deal…25 Oct 2023HANSARDIllegal MigrationThe Minister and the Home Secretary are to be commended for their crusade against devilish people smugglers, dodgy lawyers and deluded interest groups, but will he acknowledge…24 Oct 2023HANSARD Business of the HouseDangerous dogs are doing harm. The Leader of the House will know that serious and organised crime is increasingly moving into the lucrative business of breeding such dogs. There…14 Sept 2023HANSARDRailway Ticket OfficesI wondered whether my former shadow might raise that issue. The people in Spalding in Lincolnshire want that human interaction. The hon. Gentleman and I worked closely to pursue…13 Sept 2023HANSARDRailway Ticket OfficesMy hon. Friend is making a powerful speech and I congratulate him on securing the debate. There is a still more fundamental issue here: we are stripping life of human interactions…13 Sept 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillThe hon. Lady is making an excellent speech, but it is critical to understand that this is not just about wickedness that would have taken place anyway but is now taking place on…12 Sept 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy hon. Friend is making a powerful case. Umberto Eco, the Italian philosopher, described the internet as the empire of imbeciles, and much of social media is indeed imbecilic—but…12 Sept 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillThe Minister is setting out a powerful case for how the Government have listened to the overtures in this place and the other place. Further to the interventions from my hon.…12 Sept 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy hon. Friend makes a powerful point, echoing the comments of Members on both sides of the House. He is absolutely right that, as well as the scale and character of internet…12 Sept 2023HANSARD Energy Bill [Lords]Further to the intervention made by my hon. Friend the Member for Stroud (Siobhan Baillie), meanwhile, solar on buildings is absent. One drives around the country and sees huge…05 Sept 2023HANSARD Energy Bill [Lords]I was one of the architects of what the hon. Gentleman described as a ban. He will understand that, when onshore wind was no longer permitted across the UK, this catalysed the…05 Sept 2023HANSARD Energy Bill [Lords]On that point, will the hon. Gentleman give way?05 Sept 2023HANSARD Planning and Solar FarmsWhen I became the Energy Minister, I assumed that the renewable industry would be full of people like Richard Briers of the Good family. Remember the Goods in “The Good Life”?…19 Jul 2023HANSARD Planning and Solar FarmsI was going to ask the same question as my hon. Friend the Member for North Wiltshire (James Gray). To clarify further, is the hon. Member for Tiverton and Honiton (Richard Foord)…19 Jul 2023HANSARD Planning and Solar FarmsIt is a great pleasure to speak in this debate, Ms Nokes, and I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Sleaford and North Hykeham (Dr Johnson) on securing it. Like her, I take…19 Jul 2023HANSARD Planning and Solar FarmsI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way. Surely he recognises that by far the best way of doing so is to put solar on buildings. Every public building, warehouse,…19 Jul 2023HANSARD Planning and Solar FarmsBefore my hon. Friend moves to her next incisive and powerful point, I wonder whether she might recognise, given her expertise in this field, as my hon. Friend the Member for…19 Jul 2023