Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Caroline Ansell Excerpts
Wednesday 19th January 2022

(2 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lord Sharma Portrait Alok Sharma
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The hon. Gentleman is definitely making my job harder by the amount of hot air he is emitting—I wonder whether he will offset those emissions. Let me be clear that we have a commitment to have a managed transition in our energy mix, and that is what we are doing.

Caroline Ansell Portrait Caroline Ansell (Eastbourne) (Con)
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T3. Will COP26’s Clydebank declaration for green shipping corridors set the course for more zero emission shipping routes? That is particularly significant for air quality for my constituents in Eastbourne and Willingdon, who live alongside the busiest shipping lane in the world.

Lord Sharma Portrait Alok Sharma
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It certainly will. The declaration aims to support the establishment of at least six green corridors by the middle of this decade while aiming to scale up activity in the following years. We definitely want to see more such green corridors in operation.