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Recent PMQs Questions
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It is unbelievable that the Prime Minister would say that. He is clearly unwilling. We need to fund our defence, not spend all our money on welfare. I cannot believe that he would actually say that. H...
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This morning, a mature street tree fell on my house. No one was hurt, but it is another reminder of the results of this extreme heat that we face. Today is the hottest June day ever on record. Extreme...
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As we swelter through this dangerous heatwave, we see the damage caused by extreme weather and climate change—schools closed, travel chaos, lives at risk, and massive costs to our economy and society....
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The People's Emergency Briefing film educates us on the climate emergency. However, the Conservatives have given up on it. Will the Deputy Prime Minister assure me that this Labour Government will con...
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A suppressed Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs report has concluded that without transformational change, our food and water systems are at risk of catastrophic failure from 2030. Ano...
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The war in Iran has exposed how dangerously reliant we are on imports for our food, fuel and medicine, but the reality is that climate breakdown will make the current instability look trivial. Will th...
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The Prime Minister, again, does not understand the energy transition. You do not need to stop drilling for oil and gas to get renewables. This is basic stuff. The Prime Minister does not understand hi...
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As the Prime Minister will have heard me say, the Isle of Wight is a fantastic place to live, work and learn, despite the Leader of the Opposition trying to give us to China. He will also be aware of ...
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The Met Office reports that climate change is driving wetter winters, but the United States withdrew from the Paris climate agreement yesterday, on the same day that much of the west country disappear...
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While British citizen Jimmy Lai is held captive in prison by the Chinese regime and pro-democracy protesters face bounties on their heads in Britain, the Prime Minister has gone to China for a trade d...
Recent Ministerial Questions
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What recent progress has been made on improving the UK's resilience to the impacts of climate change?...
Cold Homes Plan
This summer, extreme heat was responsible for thousands of excess deaths across the United Kingdom. Though I commend the Department's mission to tackle climate change and the root causes of extreme he...
Cold Homes Plan
Whether her Department is taking steps to implement a cold homes plan. This summer, extreme heat was responsible for thousands of excess deaths across the United Kingdom. Though I commend the Departme...
Electricity Grid Connections
Bute Energy is planning to build a big wind farm in mid-Wales, and it is going to connect that wind farm over 47 km of pylons into a substation in North Shropshire that does not yet exist. I found out...
Energy Costs for Businesses
Does the Minister think that is why Gary Smith of the GMB described Government energy policy as “batshit” and the Department as the “ministry for P45s”?...
Gas and Electricity Prices
Households and businesses have been left at the mercy of a broken energy system, and they are paying the price. Gas is setting the price of electricity. Gas is at a three-year high and is due to go up...
Gas and Electricity Prices
The Secretary of State is right that gas sets the price for power most of the time. Every wind farm and solar array built in our country weakens that link. Reform and the Conservatives object to devel...
Gas and Electricity Prices
I raised the decoupling of gas and electricity prices with the former Energy Secretary in March. Eight months into the illegal war in Iran, rising gas prices have pushed the price cap up by 4% this mo...
Rosebank Oil and Gas Field
We are in a global energy supply crisis, as oil shipments remain stuck; a fifth of global liquefied natural gas supplies have been disrupted by the war in Iran; and across Europe, gas reserves are at ...
Rosebank Oil and Gas Field
The Secretary of State has previously said that if we are to have any shot at meeting our climate change targets, “we can't have any new oil and gas”. She also said that new fossil fuel development wa...