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Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Tue 12 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Richard Drax (Con - South Dorset) All this when only today the Government announced that they are to build new gas power stations in order - Speech Link
2: Preet Kaur Gill (LAB - Birmingham, Edgbaston) We will reform our planning system and create jobs for construction workers, so that we can upgrade our - Speech Link
3: Jamie Stone (LD - Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross) By the grace of God, I had an oil-fired stove, which meant that we could get by. - Speech Link
4: Beth Winter (Lab - Cynon Valley) They sought investment in coal tip safety and the allocation of the billions of pounds owed to us in - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Mon 11 Mar 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: James Davies (Con - Vale of Clwyd) reception at Parliament a few weeks ago, but to welcome the arts Minister, Lord Parkinson for a tour of the construction - Speech Link
2: Helen Morgan (LD - North Shropshire) Ensuring that people are able to move about is an important part of growing the rural economy.Train stations - Speech Link
3: Jack Brereton (Con - Stoke-on-Trent South) When Labour was last in power it closed local stations at Etruria, Barlaston and Wedgwood—what a contrast - Speech Link
4: Alex Sobel (LAB - Leeds North West) When Drax was a coal power plant, it emitted 10 million tonnes of carbon. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Offshore Petroleum Licensing Bill
2nd reading - Mon 22 Jan 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Jerome Mayhew (Con - Broadland) led to the extraordinary decision to decommission the low-carbon nuclear industry and replace it with coal-fired - Speech Link
2: Jerome Mayhew (Con - Broadland) in both commercial buildings and the residential sector; it is also about the embodied carbon in our construction - Speech Link
3: Graham Stuart (Con - Beverley and Holderness) Nearly 40% of our electricity came from coal as recently as 2012. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Tue 14 Nov 2023
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Viscount Hanworth (Lab - Excepted Hereditary) benefit of newly exploited North Sea gas, the private electricity companies began to replace existing coal-fired - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Making Britain a Clean Energy Superpower - Thu 09 Nov 2023
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Claire Coutinho (Con - East Surrey) We are building two new large-scale nuclear power stations. - Speech Link
2: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) stations running, and indeed in the early 1990s I was responsible for the team who kept our power stations - Speech Link
3: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) Of course, gas-fired power stations are often required at peaks and troughs when we need to get energy - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Offshore Wind - Mon 11 Sep 2023
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Lord Callanan (CON - Life peer) The bill payer will be very grateful that 7.5 gigawatts of construction is already under way, as we speak - Speech Link
2: Lord Callanan (CON - Life peer) Those who are against nuclear would point to its drawbacks; with coal-fired power stations, there are - Speech Link
3: Lord Callanan (CON - Life peer) We also need baseload supply, so there will a role for nuclear and for gas-fired power stations, ideally - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Nuclear Energy - Thu 07 Sep 2023
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Viscount Hanworth (LAB - Excepted Hereditary) This led to the advanced gas-cooled reactors which power all but one of Britain’s nuclear power stations - Speech Link
2: Viscount Trenchard (CON - Excepted Hereditary) From 1955 until 1995, government policy strongly favoured the construction of nuclear power stations: - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Energy Bill [Lords]
Report stage - Tue 05 Sep 2023
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Andrew Bowie (CON - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine) We have eliminated coal. - Speech Link
2: David Duguid (CON - Banff and Buchan) Does it include a new gas-fired power station in Peterhead with carbon capture, usage and storage? - Speech Link
3: Chris Skidmore (CON - Kingswood) Legislation to remove coal-fired electricity production from the grid simply puts into law a commitment - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Heating Rural Homes - Tue 13 Jun 2023
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Bill Wiggin (CON - North Herefordshire) to the gas grid and currently use some of the most carbon-intensive heating fuels, such as oil and coal - Speech Link
2: Alistair Carmichael (LDEM - Orkney and Shetland) I should perhaps declare an interest, as someone who owns a house that is also heated by oil-fired central - Speech Link
3: Bill Wiggin (CON - North Herefordshire) because properties located in these areas are proportionately more likely to be older, of traditional construction - Speech Link
4: Bill Wiggin (CON - North Herefordshire) making the Chinese richer because we want to do the right thing for the environment while they build coal-fired - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Net Zero: 2050 Target - Tue 06 Jun 2023
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Kwasi Kwarteng (CON - Spelthorne) fossil fuels, gas burning and coal burning. - Speech Link
2: Barry Gardiner (LAB - Brent North) programme is required to reform the regulatory frameworks and to remove those barriers to the planning and construction - Speech Link
3: Virginia Crosbie (CON - Ynys Môn) That is forecast to decline to 3.2 GW by 2030, with all but one of our nuclear power stations going off - Speech Link
4: Selaine Saxby (CON - North Devon) Member for Camborne and Redruth (George Eustice) on hydrotreated vegetable oil as an alternative for oil fired - Speech Link