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Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation - Mon 21 Mar 2016
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Jo Cox (LAB - Batley and Spen) A lack of infrastructure investment fuels poor productivity. - Speech Link
2: Iain Stewart (CON - Milton Keynes South) training, energy, water supplies and the many other factors that are needed to support economic growth - Speech Link
3: Jamie Reed (LAB - Copeland) help, perhaps better than many other areas, to rebalance the national economy, secure our national energy - Speech Link
4: Cheryl Gillan (CON - Chesham and Amersham) market, since it will finally be on a level playing field with other clean burning natural gas based fuels - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Onshore Oil and Gas - Tue 26 Jan 2016
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Angela Smith (LDEM - Penistone and Stocksbridge) fuels into the foreseeable future. - Speech Link
2: Lord Evans of Rainow (CON - Life peer) and renewable energy. - Speech Link
3: Tom Blenkinsop (LAB - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland) We need to educate people about the benefits of fossil fuels, the CO2 from which can be sequestered and - Speech Link
4: Tom Blenkinsop (LAB - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland) sheikhs versus shale fight, but the reduction in general fossil fuel prices, because of the online, downstream - Speech Link
5: Nick Boles (IND - Grantham and Stamford) Gas is a fossil fuel and, in the long run, we all hope not to be reliant on fossil fuels. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Housing and Planning Bill - Tue 05 Jan 2016
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Alex Cunningham (LAB - Stockton North) and energy infrastructure at significant risk of flooding.However, although new developments are to be - Speech Link
2: Bill Wiggin (CON - North Herefordshire) Instead, they could do better things to help fight climate change and reduce our reliance on fossil fuels - Speech Link
3: None ensuring that buildings that become part of the authority’s estate fall within the top quartile of energy - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Climate Change and Flooding - Tue 15 Dec 2015
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Elizabeth Truss (CON - South West Norfolk) look at how we can improve downstream defences, do more to look at the overall catchment and slow the - Speech Link
2: Kevin Hollinrake (CON - Thirsk and Malton) Only 7% of our energy comes from renewables today, and fossil fuels will be part of the mix for the foreseeable - Speech Link
3: Kevin Hollinrake (CON - Thirsk and Malton) fossil fuels and to provide an important bridge to a carbon-free future. - Speech Link
4: Luke Hall (CON - Thornbury and Yate) fossil fuels to clean energy sources.Decarbonisation will have to be a key part of the UK’s fiscal policies—lip - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Low Carbon Energy Generation - Thu 26 Feb 2015
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Tim Yeo (CON - South Suffolk) It felt that such demands for reduced dependence on fossil fuels were a threat to their business models - Speech Link
2: Albert Owen (LAB - Ynys Môn) and energy security, and food farming and food security. - Speech Link
3: Tim Yeo (CON - South Suffolk) that could transform the economics of fossil fuels, perhaps allowing us to utilise fossil fuel reserves - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Energy-intensive Industries - Thu 11 Sep 2014
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Alex Cunningham (LAB - Stockton North) For every tonne of carbon dioxide produced by the chemicals industry, more than two are saved downstream - Speech Link
2: Alex Cunningham (LAB - Stockton North) fossil fuels and buying allowances to match their emissions, or indirectly through the higher electricity - Speech Link
3: Mark Pawsey (CON - Rugby) The kiln has traditionally burned coal but is increasingly using alternative fuels, which, in Rugby’s - Speech Link
4: Priti Patel (CON - Witham) , from 2015, an exemption to the carbon price floor for fuels used to produce good-quality electricity - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Jobs and Work - Wed 11 Jun 2014
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Caroline Lucas (GRN - Brighton, Pavilion) The renewable energy industry in the UK today is a case in point, and supports over 100,000 jobs. - Speech Link
2: Eric Ollerenshaw (CON - Lancaster and Fleetwood) I am pleased that the national energy college might be sited at Blackpool and the Fylde college, which - Speech Link
3: Sammy Wilson (DUP - East Antrim) I therefore believe that the switch to exploiting the fossil fuels that we have in the United Kingdom - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Pensions: Low-carbon Investments - Thu 20 Mar 2014
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Harrison (LAB - Life peer) This means phasing out subsidies for fossil fuels and making an active and systematic commitment to developing - Speech Link
2: Lord Whitty (LAB - Life peer) roads, and from nuclear energy to how you power your own scooter or small car. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (GRN - Life peer) do it on our own—everybody must do something.The second test is: could it cause potential problems downstream - Speech Link
4: Baroness Verma (CON - Life peer) and pension investors in particular to fund energy infrastructure. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Managing Flood Risk - Mon 03 Mar 2014
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Caroline Lucas (GRN - Brighton, Pavilion) through their inequitable and unscientific climate targets and their obsession with helping big energy - Speech Link
2: Caroline Lucas (GRN - Brighton, Pavilion) Secondly, we know that compacted soil and damaged uplands channel water downstream faster. - Speech Link
3: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (CON - Life peer) drainage downstream? - Speech Link
4: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) at a certain point or further downstream. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Flooding - Wed 26 Feb 2014
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Caroline Lucas (GRN - Brighton, Pavilion) UK citizens from the worst of climate change means that we need to leave the vast majority of fossil fuels - Speech Link
2: Chris Williamson (IND - Derby North) We need to find ways of generating energy in a more sustainable way. - Speech Link
3: Caroline Nokes (CON - Romsey and Southampton North) Presumably that would run the risk of sending water further downstream to Romsey even faster and exacerbating - Speech Link
4: Diana Johnson (LAB - Kingston upon Hull North) We could invest in flood defence infrastructure and support renewable energy with a balanced energy policy - Speech Link