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Lords Chamber
Energy Bill [HL]
Consideration of Commons amendments - Tue 12 Sep 2023
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Baroness Blake of Leeds (LAB - Life peer) The UK is still heavily reliant on fossil fuels for home heating and industry, and has the least energy-efficient - Speech Link
2: Lord Callanan (CON - Life peer) We intend to fund Great British Nuclear’s initial operating costs via grant in aid. - Speech Link
3: None Schedule 20, page 377, line 4, at end insert— “(c) a country mentioned in section 26(1B)(b), (d) an overseas - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill
Committee stage - Tue 12 Sep 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Bellingham (CON - Life peer) Does he agree that it would not be a good use of overseas aid to make up for the money that is going - Speech Link
2: Earl of Caithness (CON - Excepted Hereditary) One also needs to bear in mind that the local communities do not want aid. - Speech Link
3: Lord Swire (CON - Life peer) That is not what aid is meant for. - Speech Link
4: Earl of Erroll (CB - Excepted Hereditary) It will be much better to make all sorts of products and ornamental things from them than from fossil - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Armed Forces - Thu 07 Sep 2023
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Lord Soames of Fletching (CON - Life peer) has deployed in excess of 150 Army Reserve soldiers in support of operations and other defence tasks overseas—it - Speech Link
2: Lord Liddle (LAB - Life peer) But there are always arguments and many other worthy claims—that we have to spend more on overseas aid - Speech Link
3: Lord Mountevans (CB - Excepted Hereditary) We have not said a lot about their contribution to humanitarian aid in times of weather or health emergencies - Speech Link
4: Lord Risby (CON - Life peer) from some NATO countries, 22 of NATO’s 31 members have increased defence spending; imports of Russian fossil - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill (Second sitting)
Committee stage: 2nd sitting - Tue 05 Sep 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Felicity Buchan (CON - Kensington) Did it aid the global movement against apartheid? - Speech Link
2: Anum Qaisar (SNP - Airdrie and Shotts) The fossil fuel industry.Professor Tettenborn: Well, that would not be affected. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Energy Bill [ Lords ] (Fourteenth sitting)
Committee stage: 14th sitting - Thu 22 Jun 2023
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Alan Brown (SNP - Kilmarnock and Loudoun) At that time she was more than happy to import coal from the likes of Poland and bring it in from overseas - Speech Link
2: Andrew Western (LAB - Stretford and Urmston) fuels crystal clear. - Speech Link
3: Andrew Bowie (CON - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine) Information and samples co-ordinators are expected to prove a valuable aid in respect of data reporting - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Cost of Living and Brexit - Wed 14 Jun 2023
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Ian Murray (LAB - Edinburgh South) told us that they could not demand that bidders had their supply chains in Scotland due to EU state aid - Speech Link
2: Owen Thompson (SNP - Midlothian) , social security benefits and the National Health Service bearing the brunt.The UK’s dependence on fossil - Speech Link
3: James Davies (CON - Vale of Clwyd) of vaccines.The SNP wants to discuss the cost of living, but it would rather import oil and gas from overseas - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
World Ocean Day - Thu 08 Jun 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Sally-Ann Hart (CON - Hastings and Rye) Since 1978, more than 90% of the Earth’s increased heat and 40% of carbon emitted from burning fossil - Speech Link
2: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) fuels have been absorbed by the ocean. - Speech Link
3: Chris Grayling (CON - Epsom and Ewell) Department; it falls more to the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office—those elements of our aid - Speech Link
4: Alex Sobel (LAB - Leeds North West) Since 1978, the ocean has absorbed more 90% of the Earth’s increased heat and 40% of fossil fuel emissions - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 23 May 2023
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Graham Stuart (CON - Beverley and Holderness) The Government do not subsidise fossil fuels exploration, and support international efforts to eradicate - Speech Link
2: Kerry McCarthy (LAB - Bristol East) Rosebank is an oilfield and 80% of the fossil fuels produced will be exported. - Speech Link
3: Graham Stuart (CON - Beverley and Holderness) We are reducing demand for fossil fuels, but we are net importers of them. - Speech Link
4: Graham Stuart (CON - Beverley and Holderness) We are reducing our use of fossil fuels, but producing it here at home is a noble career for people in - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
Committee stage - Mon 22 May 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Earl of Lytton (CB - Excepted Hereditary) have other views on this matter that she will doubtless enlighten us on.The Government seek to attract overseas - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town (LAB - Life peer) This fuels the influence of UK professionals and business globally, supporting inward investment. - Speech Link
3: None that is a matter of common knowledge—but it is on the road to putting things in order, and, with the aid - Speech Link
4: None If there is one thing we know, it is that we cannot carry on heating our homes with fossil fuels for - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Foreign Policy - Wed 03 May 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of St Albans (Bishops - Bishops) I raise this is that His Majesty’s Government have made a conscious decision to reduce spending on overseas - Speech Link
2: Lord Browne of Ladyton (LAB - Life peer) Money spent on aid and development overseas, quite apart from the supervening moral imperatives involved - Speech Link
3: Baroness Tyler of Enfield (LDEM - Life peer) state-to-state energy partnerships with many individual countries across the global South, focusing not just on fossil - Speech Link