Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Flick Drummond Excerpts
Wednesday 24th February 2021

(3 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Mark Menzies Portrait Mark Menzies (Fylde) (Con)
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What steps he is taking to help ensure that climate action contributes to the post covid-19 economic recovery.

Flick Drummond Portrait Mrs Flick Drummond (Meon Valley) (Con)
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What steps he is taking to help ensure that climate action contributes to the post covid-19 economic recovery.

Imran Hussain Portrait Imran Hussain (Bradford East) (Lab)
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What steps the Government are taking to promote (a) climate action and (b) a green recovery from the covid-19 pandemic ahead of COP26.

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Lord Sharma Portrait Alok Sharma
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My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Nuclear power clearly has a part to play in our clean energy mix, and he will know that in the Prime Minister’s 10-point plan we have committed to backing large-scale nuclear advanced modular reactors and small modular reactors—AMRs and SMRs. Of course, the sites such as the ones in my hon. Friend’s constituency are vital in terms of creating jobs and investment in the north-west.

Flick Drummond Portrait Mrs Drummond [V]
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I welcome my right hon. Friend to his new appointment. Does he agree that the Prime Minister’s 10-point plan will not only help places such as Meon Valley to build back better and greener from covid but level up all regions across the country?

Lord Sharma Portrait Alok Sharma
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My hon. Friend is absolutely right. The 10-point plan will be a catalyst to unleash innovation and jobs across the country. We are going to have a green industrial revolution, which is going to be powered by wind turbines in Scotland and the north-east, propelled by electric vehicles made in the midlands and, of course, supported by carbon capture clusters across our industrial heartlands.