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HANSARDContracts for Difference: Environmental Performance of HoldersI, like many people, have difficulty understanding how burning trees on an industrial scale and pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere can be any part of a low-carbon…29 Mar 2022HANSARDContracts for Difference: Environmental Performance of Holders7. What steps he is taking to monitor the environmental performance of holders of existing Contracts for Difference in the context of new standards agreed at COP 26.29 Mar 2022HANSARDFinancial StatementThe Chancellor is proposing to cut the value of state social security payments by at least 4% and putting up tax rates for those on average and below-average incomes, yet he…23 Mar 2022HANSARD Levelling UpThis is somewhat underwhelming, is it not? Not so much a dead cat as a damp squib. This might have been an opportunity to bring forward proposals for the modernisation of…02 Feb 2022HANSARDCost of Living IncreasesIf the hon. Member is going to confirm that that is the Government’s intention, I will gladly give way.24 Jan 2022HANSARDCost of Living IncreasesIf it is on that point, I will, but I see that you, Madam Deputy Speaker, want me to finish.24 Jan 2022HANSARDCost of Living IncreasesIndeed I do, but in closing I want to point to the monstrous deceit in this argument. It is a fact of life that no matter what the Scottish Government try to do in terms of the…24 Jan 2022HANSARDCost of Living IncreasesForgive me, but I think that most people will find that argument rather perverse: 5% on someone’s electricity bill is still 5%, and if it doubles or trebles, that is two or three…24 Jan 2022HANSARDCost of Living IncreasesThe last few years have been times of great adversity and challenge for people across the globe. In every country in the world, people’s ability to cope with those problems has…24 Jan 2022HANSARDCost of Living IncreasesI conclude by saying that it is a complete deceit to criticise the Scottish Government for not doing something that the House actively prevents them from doing. The simple way to…24 Jan 2022HANSARDCost of Living IncreasesIf the hon. Member does not mind, I would like to continue. What the Government ought to be doing is recognising that we are coming towards a crisis in the cost of living,…24 Jan 2022HANSARDHousehold Energy Bills: VATI am not sure of the relevance of that intervention. I was describing the manifest economic injustice apparent in our country, and that is the context against which we need to…11 Jan 2022HANSARDHousehold Energy Bills: VATThe last two years have been brutal and miserable for millions of people in this country, but not everyone has had a bad pandemic. Last year the number of millionaires in Britain…11 Jan 2022HANSARD Nationality and Borders BillMy hon. Friend is making an excellent humanitarian case against aspects of the Bill. Does he agree that when the Government reject that argument, it will fuel the case for…08 Dec 2021HANSARDTen-Year Drugs StrategyI had hoped for something better, especially from this Minister, and I think that a great many people will have been disappointed by his statement. Rather than bringing fresh…06 Dec 2021HANSARDConduct of the Right Hon. Member for Uxbridge and South RuislipWill my right hon. Friend give way?30 Nov 2021HANSARDConduct of the Right Hon. Member for Uxbridge and South RuislipI thank my right hon. Friend for giving way. As no Government Member wishes to intervene on him, I wonder whether he might agree with me on this: is it not somewhat ironic that…30 Nov 2021HANSARDLevelling-up Fund and Shared Prosperity Fund4. What comparative assessment he has made of the equity of allocations from the (a) levelling-up fund and (b) shared prosperity fund to Wales and the rest of the UK.17 Nov 2021HANSARDLevelling-up Fund and Shared Prosperity FundLet us be clear that independent estimates tell us that, over the next five years, the difference between what the devolved Administrations would have got through structural funds…17 Nov 2021HANSARD Palestine: Road Map to PeaceI congratulate the hon. Member for Birmingham, Hall Green (Tahir Ali), on bringing forward the debate. For almost 30 years, we have been discussing, and there has been…17 Nov 2021