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Lords Chamber
Offshore Petroleum Licensing Bill
2nd reading - Tue 26 Mar 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Lord Lennie (Lab - Life peer) The more we depend on fossil fuels, the more we will depend on those who control, and set the prices - Speech Link
2: Lord Lilley (Con - Life peer) They will also replace any fossil fuels that we provided to the rest of the world. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) It does not matter from where on earth those fossil fuels are extracted or what the balance of trade - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill
Report stage - Wed 13 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Baroness Stowell of Beeston (Con - Life peer) the noble Lord, Lord Anderson, is unable to be in the Chamber today because of other responsibilities overseas - Speech Link
2: Lord Bassam of Brighton (Lab - Life peer) in this country; we believe that inward investment in our economy is vital. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Stowell of Beeston (Con - Life peer) have the power to unwind that investment. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) As I said in Committee, high-carbon products obviously include fossil fuels, flights, SUVs and plastics - Speech Link
5: None other device.(5) A secondary ticketing facility must make it clear to traders and businesses based overseas - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Tue 12 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Nickie Aiken (Con - Cities of London and Westminster) loss to understand why the Treasury does not accept the arguments to reintroduce tax-free shopping for overseas - Speech Link
2: Jamie Stone (LD - Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross) that we must ensure, as a nation, that we construct those floating wind turbines in the UK rather than overseas - Speech Link
3: Steve Double (Con - St Austell and Newquay) also disappointed that the opportunity was not taken to address the issue of renewable liquid heating fuels - Speech Link
4: Sarah Olney (LD - Richmond Park) allowance; he could have reversed tax cuts for the big banks and put in place a proper windfall tax on fossil - Speech Link
5: Zarah Sultana (Lab - Coventry South) Fossil fuel giants have never had it so good. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Damian Green (Con - Ashford) Those fuels have lower carbon emissions, but are taxed, while fossil-fuel heating oil is not. - Speech Link
2: Helen Morgan (LD - North Shropshire) For example, 2,000 dentists from overseas are already here ready to take the overseas registration exam - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Currently, renewable liquid fuels that have lower carbon emissions are taxed, while fossil fuel heating - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Electricity Supplier Obligations (Excluded Electricity) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 - Tue 05 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Johnson of Lainston (Con - Life peer) rather than losing out to cheaper production overseas, and helping to mitigate the risk of carbon leakage - Speech Link
2: None At the moment, we are subsidising our heavy, energy-dependent industries to continue to burn fossil fuels - Speech Link
3: Lord Johnson of Lainston (Con - Life peer) amount of investment—some of the biggest investments that we have announced to date, particularly in - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill
2nd reading - Tue 20 Feb 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LD - Life peer) This is not the first time that people in Britain have campaigned against behaviour in territories overseas - Speech Link
2: Lord Palmer of Childs Hill (LD - Life peer) “Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters)” does not trip easily off the tongue. - Speech Link
3: Lord Browne of Ladyton (Lab - Life peer) —[Official Report, Commons, Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill Committee, 12/ - Speech Link
4: Baroness Janke (LD - Life peer) Action by public bodies to end financial support for fossil fuel extraction and to divest from activities - Speech Link
5: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) It will therefore not prevent public local authorities divesting from fossil fuels or other campaigns - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Offshore Petroleum Licensing Bill
Committee of the whole House - Tue 20 Feb 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Alok Sharma (Con - Reading West) The point that the Government are pursuing is to ensure that we have less use of fossil fuels overall - Speech Link
2: Barry Gardiner (Lab - Brent North) That is not just because the world signed up to transition away from fossil fuels at COP 28, but because - Speech Link
3: Barry Gardiner (Lab - Brent North) I will not vote to lock volatile fossil fuels into our already broken energy system. - Speech Link
4: Kenny MacAskill (Alba - East Lothian) But we require fossil fuels to deliver that renewable capacity. - Speech Link
5: Alan Whitehead (Lab - Southampton, Test) When we are in a crisis caused by our reliance on fossil fuels and committed to a net zero transition - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Fossil Fuels: Lobbying - Tue 30 Jan 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Caroline Lucas (Green - Brighton, Pavilion) That is what happens when we let fossil fuels into every corner of our politics.That is only the tip - Speech Link
2: Alex Burghart (Con - Brentwood and Ongar) fuels for certain purposes. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: David Duguid (Con - Banff and Buchan) Without new investment, it is predicted that reliance on overseas imports will increase from 50% today - Speech Link
2: Zarah Sultana (Lab - Coventry South) It is a programme of state-led investment in green industries, rapidly replacing fossil fuels with renewables - Speech Link
3: Vicky Ford (Con - Chelmsford) We need to prioritise energy security for as long as we need fossil fuels. - Speech Link
4: Wera Hobhouse (LD - Bath) We must get away from our dependence on fossil fuels, not extend it. - Speech Link
5: Sammy Wilson (DUP - East Antrim) fuels; and some 40% of our electricity is generated from fossil fuels. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Biosecurity and Infectious Diseases - Thu 18 Jan 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Viscount Stansgate (Lab - Excepted Hereditary) The health of trees is of huge importance, especially when considering the threats from overseas; mention - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hayman (XB - Life peer) The burning of fossil fuels, leading to the pollution of the atmosphere, particularly in cities, is thought - Speech Link
3: Lord Carrington (XB - Excepted Hereditary) research a major boost.A highly important aspect of the likely requirement to import seed and plants from overseas - Speech Link
4: Lord Bethell (Con - Excepted Hereditary) On our investment in high-throughput biosurveillance, the noble Lord, Lord Trees, quite rightly pointed - Speech Link
5: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Lab - Life peer) Are the Government looking at the areas that they have requested—investment in robust biosecurity and - Speech Link