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HANSARDBiomass GenerationI welcome the revision of Drax’s role in our energy system, reducing biomass and ensuring that where it is used it displaces gas, not excess wind and solar. However, we also need…10 Feb 2025HANSARD Knife Crime: West MidlandsIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Sir John. I recently met the young people representing our county in the Worcestershire Youth Cabinet, and they shared with us…21 Jan 2025HANSARDNew Homes (Solar Generation) BillOne of my previous employers used to run a competition for schoolchildren. They asked them to draw a picture of a better future where we tackled our climate and ecological crises.…17 Jan 2025HANSARDNew Homes (Solar Generation) BillI fully agree. Many people have told me that, intuitively, they would like solar to be put on roofs first. I think there is strong consensus that that should be our direction. My…17 Jan 2025HANSARDNew Homes (Solar Generation) BillI agree. As we face a transition in a range of technologies—my professional background is in heat—it is important that we put consumers at the heart of that and ensure that it…17 Jan 2025HANSARDDraft Clean Heat Market Mechanism Regulations 2024It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Vickers. I am quite frankly staggered by the criticism from the Opposition. I remind Conservative Members that they had a policy…13 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren’s Social Media AccountsIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Twigg. I thank all those who signed the petition for raising this issue. My heart goes out to Jools’ family, and I thank them…13 Jan 2025HANSARDDraft Movement of Goods (Northern Ireland to Great Britain) (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Transitory Provision and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2024I note that the long-term approach to NI-GB movements is still being developed. Should that programme of work extend beyond the end of the current transitional staging period on 1…03 Dec 2024HANSARDIncome tax (charge)As a boy, I remember walking to the shops with my mum and passing our nearest pub. Its name, the Lord Protector, confused me at the time, and I later learned that I share a home…31 Oct 2024