Bill Documents
29 Feb 2024 - Briefing papers
Offshore Petroleum Licensing Bill: HL Bill 49
Offshore Petroleum Licensing Bill 2023-24

Found: confidence in the oil an d gas sector and reduce the UK’s dependence on higher-emission imports f rom overseas

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Select Committee

University of Bristol Law School, British Ports Association, and LSE Law School

Oral Evidence Feb. 26 2024

Inquiry: The UK’s economic security
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: National Security Strategy (Joint Committee)

Found: predecessors in 1914, we have been quite complacent about assuming that, when you order something from overseas

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Select Committee

Energy UK, Lancaster University, Sky News, and techUK

Oral Evidence Feb. 26 2024

Inquiry: The UK’s economic security
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: National Security Strategy (Joint Committee)

Found: predecessors in 1914, we have been quite complacent about assuming that, when you order something from overseas

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Select Committee

Third Special Report - The financial sector and the UK’s net zero transition: Government Response to the Committee’s First Report

Special Report Feb. 23 2024

Committee: Environmental Audit Committee

Found: fuels.

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Select Committee

Oxford University, London School of Economics (LSE), and Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

Oral Evidence Feb. 20 2024

Inquiry: How sustainable is our national debt?
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Economic Affairs Committee

Found: As regards overseas, if you take, for example, the almost complete obsession with borrowing for net

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Lords Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill
2nd reading - Tue 20 Feb 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LD - Life peer) This is not the first time that people in Britain have campaigned against behaviour in territories overseas - Speech Link
2: Lord Palmer of Childs Hill (LD - Life peer) “Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters)” does not trip easily off the tongue. - Speech Link
3: Lord Browne of Ladyton (Lab - Life peer) —[Official Report, Commons, Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill Committee, 12/ - Speech Link
4: Baroness Janke (LD - Life peer) Action by public bodies to end financial support for fossil fuel extraction and to divest from activities - Speech Link
5: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) It will therefore not prevent public local authorities divesting from fossil fuels or other campaigns - Speech Link

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Commons Chamber
Offshore Petroleum Licensing Bill
Committee of the whole House - Tue 20 Feb 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Alok Sharma (Con - Reading West) The point that the Government are pursuing is to ensure that we have less use of fossil fuels overall - Speech Link
2: Barry Gardiner (Lab - Brent North) That is not just because the world signed up to transition away from fossil fuels at COP 28, but because - Speech Link
3: Barry Gardiner (Lab - Brent North) I will not vote to lock volatile fossil fuels into our already broken energy system. - Speech Link
4: Kenny MacAskill (Alba - East Lothian) But we require fossil fuels to deliver that renewable capacity. - Speech Link
5: Alan Whitehead (Lab - Southampton, Test) When we are in a crisis caused by our reliance on fossil fuels and committed to a net zero transition - Speech Link

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Parliamentary Research
Debate on the Civil Nuclear Roadmap - CDP-2024-0036
Feb. 16 2024

Found: 20 DESNZ, Energy and emissions projections: 2022 to 2040 (Annex I) 21 Central assumptions of fossil

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Select Committee

Institute of Fiscal Studies, PIMCO, and Institute of International Finance

Oral Evidence Feb. 13 2024

Inquiry: How sustainable is our national debt?
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Economic Affairs Committee

Found: private investment and so on.

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