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Lords Chamber
Immigration System - Thu 15 May 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None founding some of our biggest businesses and those who came through generations to work in jobs from coal - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Solar Farms - Thu 15 May 2025
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Caroline Johnson (Con - Sleaford and North Hykeham) It requires the mining of silver and zinc. - Speech Link
2: Llinos Medi (PC - Ynys Môn) Coal, slate, water—our natural resources—have been extracted from our deprived communities for the benefits - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Immigration System - Mon 12 May 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley) founding some of our biggest businesses and those who came through generations to work in jobs from coal - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Coalfields Regeneration Trust - Tue 22 Apr 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Samantha Niblett (Lab - South Derbyshire) It is an ex-mining community—that is deeply embedded in who they are. Does my hon. - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) The coal used by those who owned the shops in Newtownards for many years, way back when coal was the - Speech Link
3: Josh Newbury (Lab - Cannock Chase) heard me say before, the Museum of Cannock Chase in my constituency, which is primarily focused on mining - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Steel Industry
2nd reading debate taken as second reading - Sat 12 Apr 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Hunt of Wirral (Con - Life peer) Could British Steel survive today if access to coal was not artificially restricted? - Speech Link
2: Lord Moylan (Con - Life peer) There has been no apology for their recent resultant decision to block the domestic mining of coal fit - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist (Con - Life peer) Ltd to mine the coking coal necessary to make virgin steel. - Speech Link
4: Viscount Hanworth (Lab - Excepted Hereditary) Blast furnaces require iron ore and coking coal, which come from foreign sources. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Lab - Life peer) I must remind him that it was his party that closed the coal mines and made us reliant on imported coal - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Steel Industry (Special Measures) Bill
2nd reading - Sat 12 Apr 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Samantha Niblett (Lab - South Derbyshire) What is happening today is something that mining communities like Swadlincote, in my constituency of - Speech Link
2: Jonathan Reynolds (LAB - Stalybridge and Hyde) Lady will know that the company brought into question whether that coal was the right grade for blast - Speech Link
3: Graham Stuart (Con - Beverley and Holderness) that applies after the warning, Mr Speaker.We have a Government who, I believe, are shipping coking coal - Speech Link
4: Chris McDonald (Lab - Stockton North) Member for Boston and Skegness (Richard Tice) and others referred to the coal from the west Cumbria mine - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Easter Adjournment - Tue 08 Apr 2025
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Josh Newbury (Lab - Cannock Chase) In Cannock Chase, we are rightly proud of our rich mining heritage. - Speech Link
2: Martin Vickers (Con - Brigg and Immingham) have had similar experiences with towns that have lost their core industry, be it shipbuilding or mining - Speech Link
3: Gen Kitchen (Lab - Wellingborough and Rushden) I also pay tribute to those in the British Coal staff superannuation scheme who have passed away.I can - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 01 Apr 2025
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Catherine West (Lab - Hornsey and Friern Barnet) framework that promotes good environmental, social and governance practices in critical minerals, mining - Speech Link
2: Tom Tugendhat (Con - Tonbridge) social and governance accords, yet somehow or other it fails on all of those: it fails because of its coal-powered - Speech Link
3: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) He will know the important role that this country has played in de-mining efforts around the world. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
UK-China Relations - Wed 26 Mar 2025
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Gregory Stafford (Con - Farnham and Bordon) world’s largest carbon emitter: it emits 15 billion tonnes of CO2 annually and powers industries with coal - Speech Link
2: Chris McDonald (Lab - Stockton North) For most of them, China either dominates the mining or has the materials processing capability for about - Speech Link
3: Catherine West (Lab - Hornsey and Friern Barnet) investor in sustainable energy, the largest emitter of greenhouse gases and the largest producer of coal - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Great British Energy Bill
Consideration of Lords amendments - Tue 25 Mar 2025
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Andrew Bowie (Con - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine) Chinese technology in our North sea wind farms, to solar panels made with slave labour and to using coal - Speech Link
2: None that they signed up to without the help of China and without importing this green revolution from coal-powered - Speech Link
3: None The Government want to import solar panels manufactured using coal power and tainted by human rights - Speech Link
4: Sarah Champion (Lab - Rotherham) There is evidence of child labour in cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and of labour - Speech Link