Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Stephen Morgan and Graham Stuart

Monday 10th March 2025 Commons Chamber

[Stephen Morgan]

Along with my hon. Friend, I am delighted that so many schools in his constituency are receiving significant investment through the school rebuilding programme. Ensuring that schools and colleges have the resources and buildings that they need is a key part of our plan to break down barriers to opportunity and ensure that every child gets the best start in life.

[Graham Stuart (Beverley and Holderness) (Con)]

The Minister may remember that the last Labour Government had Building Schools for the Future. Some £55 billion was spent on buildings and IT to transform education—except buildings and IT do not transform education. There was global evidence to back that up, because building schools is not a new thing. Can the Minister reassure the House that we will never have a repeat of that extravagant and wasted programme, but that we will ensure we have functional schools with brilliant teachers able to teach our children?

[Stephen Morgan]

Ensuring that schools and colleges have the resources and buildings that they need is key to our mission to break down barriers to opportunity. I will take no lectures from the Conservative party on education.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Stephen Morgan and Graham Stuart

Tuesday 28th November 2023 Commons Chamber

[Graham Stuart]

As I have said, I share the enthusiasm on both sides of the House for onshore wind. The Government have set regulations that require onshore wind developers to consult communities in advance of submitting a planning application, as well as having it consulted on post-submission. We make no apology for rolling out this transformation in renewable technologies in concert with communities, rather than seeking to ride roughshod over them.

[Stephen Morgan (Portsmouth South) (Lab)]

8. When she plans to make a decision on the application for development consent for the proposed AQUIND interconnector project.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Stephen Morgan and Graham Stuart

Thursday 5th March 2020 Commons Chamber

[Mr Stephen Morgan (Portsmouth South) (Lab)]

5. What steps her Department is taking to support exports by the UK renewable energy sector.

[The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Trade (Graham Stuart)]

We are working with the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy to maximise the overall economic impact of our world-leading renewable energy sector, including that of exports. The Department undertakes a range of promotion activities, including running trade missions and dedicated workshops.

[Mr Morgan]

I thank the Minister for that response. What support has the prosperity fund awarded to fossil fuel projects in developing countries, and how was that funding assessed in terms of the environmental and social impacts of those projects?

[Graham Stuart]

All investments by the prosperity fund are examined against the raft of UK Government policies, objectives and aims, and we do that in all cases in each continent of the world.