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Anna McMorrin Excerpts

Tuesday 8th January 2019 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

Thank you. I am extremely grateful to the Minister.

[Anna McMorrin (Cardiff North) (Lab)]

rose—

[Mr Speaker]

Is it on the same matter? No. This matter has been—

[Anna McMorrin]

Not on this matter, but on these BEIS questions.

[Mr Speaker]

I say to the hon. Lady that it must not be a continuation of the argument. I will give her the benefit of the doubt. However, on that matter the Minister has been very clear, and we thank her for that clarity.

[Anna McMorrin]

On a point of order, Mr Speaker. Given that climate change is the most pressing and urgent issue facing us and future generations, may I seek your advice about how I can ask the Minister for Energy and Clean Growth, who has responsibility for climate change, to make an oral statement on her recent attendance at COP 24 at Katowice?

[Mr Speaker]

The hon. Lady has achieved her own salvation. It seems to me that she has used the device of an entirely bogus point of order to register a point that she probably would have wanted to register if she had been called to do so, but could not because she was not.