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Lords Chamber
Great British Energy Bill
2nd reading - Mon 18 Nov 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (Lab - Life peer) As the Climate Change Committee has said: “The faster we get off fossil fuels, the more secure we become - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hayman (XB - Life peer) fuels, the more secure we become”. - Speech Link
3: Lord Howell of Guildford (Con - Life peer) fuels than by renewable energies of any kind. - Speech Link
4: Viscount Stansgate (Lab - Excepted Hereditary) This will replace fossil-fuelled electricity generation with low-carbon alternatives. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Autumn Budget 2024 - Mon 11 Nov 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale (Lab - Life peer) aid budget by one-third. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted (LD - Life peer) Or is this just Brits on Brits and why contracts go overseas? - Speech Link
3: Lord Sikka (Lab - Life peer) That is unfair and fuels inequalities. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Penn (Con - Life peer) What about the commitment to restore aid spending to 0.7% of GNI? - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
COP29 and International Climate Finance - Wed 30 Oct 2024
Department for International Development

Mentions:
1: Ellie Chowns (Green - North Herefordshire) are due to the historical debt that early industrialising countries built up through our burning of fossil - Speech Link
2: Ellie Chowns (Green - North Herefordshire) domestically to tackle it.My fourth point is that international climate finance must be additional to aid - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Rural Communities - Tue 15 Oct 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness Humphreys (LD - Life peer) rescue plan for farmers—extra funding for the agricultural budget, the renegotiation of botched overseas - Speech Link
2: Lord Roborough (Con - Excepted Hereditary) farmers and land managers”,as they are the ones who will deliver sequestered carbon and biodiversity, and aid - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Lab - Life peer) Decarbonising off-grid properties will reduce our reliance on fossil fuels and build our energy independence - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Great British Energy Bill (Second sitting)
Committee stage: 2nd sitting - Tue 08 Oct 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Andrew Bowie (Con - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine) We, alongside Hydrogen UK, have proposed some alternative wording that would enable abated fossil fuels - Speech Link
2: Olivia Blake (Lab - Sheffield Hallam) unabated fossil fuels. - Speech Link
3: Stephen Flynn (SNP - Aberdeen South) The reality with bills is that we remain far too wedded to fossil fuels; whether they come from the North - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Environment and Climate Change Committee Report: An Extraordinary Challenge: Restoring 30 per cent of our Land and Sea by 2030 - Wed 11 Sep 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park (Con - Life peer) If your Lordships remember, at the last G7 there was a commitment that all international aid—not just - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Norwich (Bshp - Bishops) blanket bog, and there are other outstanding examples of unique species and habitats in the UK’s overseas - Speech Link
3: Lord Lucas (Con - Excepted Hereditary) If we are going to replace fossil fuels in the chemical industry, we are going to need to use every potential - Speech Link
4: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Lab - Life peer) territories to develop a new overseas territory biodiversity strategy. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
COP29: UK Priorities - Tue 10 Sep 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Uma Kumaran (Lab - Stratford and Bow) Nearly 200 countries made an historic commitment to transition away from fossil fuels. - Speech Link
2: Wera Hobhouse (LD - Bath) fuels, using the strongest language ever used in respect of the phasing out of fossil fuels. - Speech Link
3: Deirdre Costigan (Lab - Ealing Southall) Member for Bristol Central (Carla Denyer) on moving away from fossil fuels. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Contracts for Difference - Tue 03 Sep 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Ed Miliband (Lab - Doncaster North) The last Government left this country exposed to international fossil fuel markets. - Speech Link
2: Ed Miliband (Lab - Doncaster North) It was caused not by a dependence on renewables but by our exposure to fossil fuels. - Speech Link
3: Ed Miliband (Lab - Doncaster North) The notion that our exposure to fossil fuels as a country gives us security is belied by what has happened - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Making Britain a Clean Energy Superpower - Fri 26 Jul 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Barry Gardiner (Lab - Brent West) fuels as the world’s cheapest source of energy”,according to its report. - Speech Link
2: Greg Smith (Con - Mid Buckinghamshire) Synthetic fuels are entirely man-made. - Speech Link
3: Adrian Ramsay (Green - Waveney Valley) I politely point out, though, that to get to net zero we have to move away from fossil fuels as well - Speech Link
4: Seamus Logan (SNP - Aberdeenshire North and Moray East) Our reliance on fossil fuels is falling, but it is not about to disappear. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill - Wed 17 Apr 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) It will therefore not prevent public local authorities divesting from fossil fuels or other campaigns - Speech Link
2: Lord Collins of Highbury (Lab - Life peer) That is a critical area, as extraction of coal and other fossil fuels is often part of government strategy - Speech Link
3: None The Bill will not prevent public authorities divesting from fossil fuels on a non-country specific basis - Speech Link