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Westminster Hall
Energy Resilience - Tue 06 May 2025
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Michael Shanks (Lab - Rutherglen) We clearly saw significant disruption in Spain and Portugal on our television screens here, but I was - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Energy Grid Resilience - Tue 06 May 2025
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: None by NESO that a power outage had occurred across the Iberian peninsula, affecting mainland Spain, Portugal - Speech Link
2: Lord Offord of Garvel (Con - Life peer) Lords, I begin by expressing my sympathy for all those impacted by the recent blackouts in Spain, Portugal - Speech Link
3: Earl Russell (LD - Excepted Hereditary) Our thoughts are of course with the 55 million people across Spain, Portugal, Andorra and parts of France - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Infrastructure Planning (Onshore Wind and Solar Generation) Order 2025 - Tue 06 May 2025
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con - Life peer) If we learn one thing from the massive outage in Spain, Portugal and parts of France last week, it is - Speech Link
2: Lord Deben (Con - Life peer) I repeat that there is no connection between the outages in Portugal and Spain and the issue before us - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Energy Grid Resilience - Wed 30 Apr 2025
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Michael Shanks (Lab - Rutherglen) by NESO that a power outage had occurred across the Iberian peninsula, affecting mainland Spain, Portugal - Speech Link
2: Andrew Bowie (Con - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine) The images from Spain and Portugal are a sombre reminder of what happens when the grid fails. - Speech Link
3: Michael Shanks (Lab - Rutherglen) It is rightly for the authorities in Spain and Portugal to carry out the investigations, exactly as it - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Global Deforestation - Wed 30 Apr 2025
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Claire Young (LD - Thornbury and Yate) to the UN, we lose approximately 10 million hectares of forest a year—an area roughly the size of Portugal - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 29 Apr 2025
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Gregory Campbell (DUP - East Londonderry) Given the sheer scale of the outages in Portugal and Spain over the past few days, is it likely that - Speech Link
2: Kerry McCarthy (Lab - Bristol East) First of all, I am sure the whole House will want to send support to Spain and Portugal following the - Speech Link
3: Joy Morrissey (Con - Beaconsfield) As we have seen in Portugal and Spain, renewable energy can sometimes be unreliable. - Speech Link
4: Liz Jarvis (LD - Eastleigh) The power outages across Spain, Portugal and the south of France are a stark reminder of how energy security - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Wales: Nuclear Power Generation - Tue 29 Apr 2025
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Lord Blunkett (Lab - Life peer) My Lords, in the light of the outage in Spain and Portugal over the last 48 hours, are not devolved and - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Engineering Biology (Science and Technology Committee Report) - Mon 28 Apr 2025
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Baroness Northover (LD - Life peer) I wonder whether the power outage in Spain and Portugal has extended to the Moses Room, but I can at - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
National Debt: It’s Time for Tough Decisions (Economic Affairs Committee Report) - Fri 25 Apr 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Horam (Con - Life peer) Portugal is the same. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Food, Diet and Obesity Committee Report - Fri 28 Mar 2025
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord Bethell (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Countries such as Norway, Portugal, Mexico, Canada and Chile are leading the way by clamping down on - Speech Link