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Scheduled Event - Friday 21st June
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Commons - Private Members' Bills - Main Chamber
Senior Civil Service (Accountability and Appointment) Bill: Second Reading
MP: Giles Watling
Scheduled Event - Friday 17th May
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Commons - Private Members' Bills - Main Chamber
Senior Civil Service (Accountability and Appointment) Bill: Second Reading
MP: Giles Watling
Written Question
Electricity Generation
Tuesday 23rd April 2024

Asked by: Giles Watling (Conservative - Clacton)

Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to page 75 of her Department’s consultation entitled Review of Electricity Market Arrangements: second consultation, published on 12 March 2024, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact on the power system if there was no role for unabated gas in 2035.

Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)

We will need unabated gas in 2035 to play a small but important role when the wind does not blow or the sun does not shine. Our published Net Zero scenarios envisage a small but important role for unabated gas in 2035. Without a role for unabated gas, we would likely run an increased risk of blackouts.

Division Vote (Commons)
22 Apr 2024 - Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill - View Vote Context
Giles Watling (Con) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 293 Conservative Aye votes vs 1 Conservative No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 304 Noes - 222
Division Vote (Commons)
22 Apr 2024 - Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill - View Vote Context
Giles Watling (Con) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 299 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 309 Noes - 41
Division Vote (Commons)
22 Apr 2024 - Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill - View Vote Context
Giles Watling (Con) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 303 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 312 Noes - 237
Division Vote (Commons)
22 Apr 2024 - Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill - View Vote Context
Giles Watling (Con) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 302 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 309 Noes - 37
Division Vote (Commons)
22 Apr 2024 - Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill - View Vote Context
Giles Watling (Con) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 301 Conservative Aye votes vs 1 Conservative No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 305 Noes - 234
Division Vote (Commons)
22 Apr 2024 - Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill - View Vote Context
Giles Watling (Con) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 299 Conservative Aye votes vs 2 Conservative No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 306 Noes - 229
Written Question
Radicalism
Monday 22nd April 2024

Asked by: Giles Watling (Conservative - Clacton)

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to tackle anti-democratic extremism.

Answered by Lee Rowley - Minister of State (Minister for Housing)

On 14th March Government published its new definition of extremism, which identifies behaviour that seek to “to… undermine, overturn or replace the UK’s system of parliamentary democracy” as extremist.

The Government is undergoing a formal process of identifying and naming extremists. Before elections, the Government stands up the election cell, which works with the Police and Home Office to monitor threats to our democratic systems or institutions.