Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Sammy Wilson and Kris Hopkins

Monday 10th November 2014 Commons Chamber

[Kris Hopkins]

If my right hon. Friend will forgive me, I need to correct him. There have been just over 800 applications for solar and wind farms, of which some 40 have been recovered and only four have ever been called in.

[Sammy Wilson (East Antrim) (DUP)]

The continuing firefighters’ dispute in England is both damaging and avoidable. Will the Minister look at what has happened in Northern Ireland, where the Northern Ireland Executive have come to an agreement with the firefighters that is neither costly nor damaging? Will he adopt the same common-sense approach here as has been adopted in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales?