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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 15 Sep 2021
Geothermal Energy

"It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Robertson, and to reply to this afternoon’s debate on behalf of the Opposition.

I am in a particular position as far as geothermal energy is concerned. I am not standing up to say what a good idea geothermal energy would …..."
Lord Whitehead - View Speech

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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 15 Sep 2021
Geothermal Energy

"The hon. Gentleman is right. According to what has already been mapped and known about via the British Geological Survey and other agencies, it so happens that every Member present this afternoon has a constituency right on top of an area of sedimentary laid-down rock associated with aquifers, all of …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 15 Sep 2021
Geothermal Energy

"Indeed. The other point I would make about availability is that we are not just talking about sedimentary rocks. As we know from Cornwall, we are talking about hot rocks, granite batholith formations, which can extract heat just as effectively for geothermal energy. That is the geology lesson over and …..."
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Written Question
Arms Trade: Saudi Arabia
Tuesday 4th December 2018

Asked by: Lord Whitehead (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, if he will suspend arms sales to Saudi Arabia until an independent international inquiry can establish culpability for violations of international humanitarian law on all sides of the Yemeni conflict.

Answered by Graham Stuart

The Consolidated EU and National Arms Export Licensing Criteria provides a thorough risk assessment framework for considering all applications to export military goods to Saudi Arabia. We will not grant a licence if do so would be inconsistent with these Criteria. The policy remains as announced to Parliament in a Written Ministerial Statement on 25 March 2014:

https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmhansrd/cm140325/wmstext/140325m0001.htm#14032566000018 and updated with an additional policy, as announced in a Written Ministerial Statement on 13 September 2018:

https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2018-09-13/HCWS957/ .