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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 22 Jul 2025
Prax Lindsey Oil Refinery

"The Minister is absolutely right—so was the shadow Minister—to focus on the jobs and the communities affected by the worrying news coming from Lindsey. He was also right to say that the problems are the result of shockingly bad management. My Select Committee will look at the future of refining …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 21 Jul 2025
Independent Water Commission

"My constituents will be very pleased with what the Government have announced today, following 14 years of seeing increases in the dumping of sewage on the beaches, and in the rivers, in my constituency. I could not help but notice that yesterday the leader of Reform, in his answer to …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 17 Jul 2025
Oral Answers to Questions

"SME manufacturers are a key part of the planned renaissance in manufacturing in this country. Some of them are raising concerns about a lack of involvement in the Industrial Strategy Advisory Council. Will the Minister confirm that they are very much involved and have an important role to play in …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 15 Jul 2025
Oral Answers to Questions

"The challenges of increasing electricity grid capacity include the ability to get planning consent and to achieve grid connections, as the Minister knows. In the report that the Select Committee published last week, we referred to the problem of inconsistency in some of the guidance and energy plans over which …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 14 Jul 2025
State of Climate and Nature

"Select Committees look at the evidence, follow the evidence and make recommendations on the basis of the evidence. Today, we have heard from the Secretary of State the evidence from the Met Office about the seriousness of the threat, the reality of the nature of the crisis and the fact …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 10 Jul 2025
Energy Planning

"It gives me great pleasure to present our Committee’s first report of this Session, “Gridlock or growth? Avoiding energy planning chaos”. I think it follows on very nicely from the statement we have just heard from the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, especially given some of …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 10 Jul 2025
Energy Planning

"I am also very grateful to my hon. Friend for his contribution. He joined the Committee recently and has grabbed the agenda with both hands, as one of our most assiduous attenders. I think he and the hon. Member for Bath (Wera Hobhouse) match each other on attendance, actually—I do …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 10 Jul 2025
Energy Planning

"I thank the hon. Lady for her question and for her service on the Committee—her contribution is always valuable in our discussions and in the questions we put to our witnesses. She rightly raises nature mitigations, which we looked at in our inquiry. As I mentioned in my statement, we …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 10 Jul 2025
Energy Planning

"That is something that we have looked at as part of this inquiry and more widely. It is really important that those who host major energy infrastructure are taken on board. We made recommendations about early engagement, and about listening to rather than ignoring what local communities say about the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 10 Jul 2025
Energy Planning

"My hon. Friend makes an excellent point. There is a good crossover between the Planning and Infrastructure Bill going through Parliament and the amendments made to the national policy statement. Our recommendations pick up some of the linkages between the two, as she suggests. The key point is how we …..."
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