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Westminster Hall
Immigration Rules: Offshore Workers - Tue 06 Jun 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Kenny MacAskill (Alba - East Lothian) Bank in the Firth of Forth, off my constituency in East Lothian, would provide enough electricity to power - Speech Link
2: Chris Philp (CON - Croydon South) be aware that, back in 2012—just 11 years ago—43% of this country’s electricity generation was from coal-fired - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Energy Bill [Lords]
2nd reading - Tue 09 May 2023
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Grant Shapps (CON - Welwyn Hatfield) They are still concerned about building more power stations for coal, but no one is doing that. - Speech Link
2: Edward Miliband (LAB - Doncaster North) Member for Reading West (Sir Alok Sharma), telling everybody that they have to power past coal, and then - Speech Link
3: Maria Miller (CON - Basingstoke) In the past, power stations were designed to match consumer demand. - Speech Link
4: Andrew Bowie (CON - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine) I reassure Members that we are committed to ensuring that coal has no part to play in our future power - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Energy Bill [HL]
Report stage - Mon 17 Apr 2023
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: None the relevant transmission licensee for the connection of offshore distribution networks, generating stations - Speech Link
2: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (CON - Life peer) We took compelling evidence on the serious disruption caused by both the construction and operation phases - Speech Link
3: Lord Teverson (LDEM - Life peer) and power generation. - Speech Link
4: None In our view, the phasing out of coal-fired power plants, to which the Government have committed since - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Spring Budget: Wales - Wed 29 Mar 2023
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: Virginia Crosbie (CON - Ynys Môn) delivery of new nuclear projects, including in Wales, much more efficient, enabling us to build vital new stations - Speech Link
2: Virginia Crosbie (CON - Ynys Môn) There is already a long list of companies looking to Wales to house these game-changing stations, which - Speech Link
3: Beth Winter (LAB - Cynon Valley) Friend the Member for Newport West (Ruth Jones) on securing the debate.Wales fired the UK industrial - Speech Link
4: Ben Lake (PC - Ceredigion) to the curtilage of some rural properties only for residents to be forced to pay exorbitant excess construction - Speech Link
5: Christina Rees (IND - Neath) £30 million for the global centre of rail excellence, of which £20 million has been received for the construction - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Solar Rooftop Installations - Wed 22 Mar 2023
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Caroline Lucas (GRN - Brighton, Pavilion) At present, from manufacturing to construction and engineering, from maintenance to data analysis, there - Speech Link
2: Graham Stuart (CON - Beverley and Holderness) It is “Power for Good”, and it will pay 10p per kWh—significantly more than rivals. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation - Mon 20 Mar 2023
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Brendan Clarke-Smith (CON - Bassetlaw) world’s first commercial STEP fusion energy plant, which will be built at the home of one of the last coal-fired - Speech Link
2: Mike Kane (LAB - Wythenshawe and Sale East) John Loudon McAdam was a Scottish engineer in the 17th and 18th centuries who added coal tar to stone - Speech Link
3: Virginia Crosbie (CON - Ynys Môn) In that letter, I asked the Prime Minister to push ahead with a bold new programme of nuclear power construction - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Energy Bill [HL]
Committee stage - Mon 16 Jan 2023
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Lord Lilley (CON - Life peer) Would the noble Lord remind the Committee that that coal mine will not produce power—all the pledges - Speech Link
2: Baroness Blake of Leeds (LAB - Life peer) International Energy Agency clearly set out that there must be no new oil and gas fields and no new coal-fired - Speech Link
3: Lord Ravensdale (CB - Excepted Hereditary) There are plans being developed to use nuclear-derived hydrogen to power construction vehicles for Sizewell - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Energy Bill [HL]
Committee stage - Mon 12 Dec 2022
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Lord Teverson (LDEM - Life peer) during that interregnum, as the Minister described it, the Government gave planning permission for a coal - Speech Link
2: Baroness Worthington (CB - Life peer) Norway managed to blow one of its fuelling stations and, if Norway can blow things up, anyone can. - Speech Link
3: Lord Whitty (LAB - Life peer) heavily carbon-fuelled industries such as steel, glass and so forth, with its knock-on effect on the construction - Speech Link
4: Baroness Sheehan (LDEM - Life peer) Where there is a limited number of filling stations, that is a model that could work. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Worthington (CB - Life peer) It will do exactly what we saw in the co-firing of biomass in coal-fired power stations; it keeps the - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Sustainable Energy Generation: Burning Trees - Tue 06 Dec 2022
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Selaine Saxby (CON - North Devon) forms of energy generation for our planet and for our energy security.Biomass became prominent when coal-fired - Speech Link
2: Peter Bottomley (CON - Worthing West) I have a list of 34 former power stations in London alone, nearly all of which were powered by coal or - Speech Link
3: Derek Thomas (CON - St Ives) Forests destroyed in Canada for burning in UK power stations have a big impact for all of humanity. - Speech Link
4: John McNally (SNP - Falkirk) Member said that the burning of imported wood in our power stations,“doesn’t make any sense to me.”He - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Battery Strategy (Science and Technology Committee Report) - Wed 23 Nov 2022
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Viscount Hanworth (LAB - Excepted Hereditary) combined-cycle gas turbine plants, powered by plentiful North Sea gas, began rapidly to replace the ageing coal-fired - Speech Link
2: Lord Naseby (CON - Life peer) involved, to some degree, when I was on the Select Committee on energy in the other place: the change from coal - Speech Link
3: Lord Mitchell (LAB - Life peer) mentioned today, was the contrast in attitude between Ministers and officials compared with those at the coal - Speech Link
4: Baroness Walmsley (LDEM - Life peer) flats, workplaces, petrol stations, supermarkets, et cetera; will the Government increase the support - Speech Link