Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 20 Oct 2021
Carbon Capture and Storage
"Basically, there is cross-party agreement that we need to move ahead with carbon capture and storage and the Government are doing a good job on that. This is one area where the House can come together and promote this whole agenda.
Question put and agreed to.
Resolved,
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 20 Oct 2021
Carbon Capture and Storage
"I beg to move,
That this House has considered carbon capture and storage.
It is an honour to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Miller. Two decades ago, when I was environment editor of The Times, a report came across my desk of a new-fangled concept called carbon capture and storage—CCS. …..."Anthony Browne - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 20 Oct 2021
Carbon Capture and Storage
"I will resume where I finished, if I remember rightly. I was saying that nature has continuously captured carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and stored it temporarily in the biosphere and permanently in the geosphere. The process has continued for billions of years, and the amount of atmospheric carbon dioxide …..."Anthony Browne - View Speech
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Written Question
Friday 26th March 2021
Asked by:
Anthony Browne (Conservative - South Cambridgeshire)
Question
to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he has any plans for regulation by Ofgem of energy providers' purchase price from private solar export systems under the Smart Export Guarantee scheme.
Answered by Anne-Marie Trevelyan
The Smart Export Guarantee (SEG), introduced in January 2020, ensures that small-scale generators have a guaranteed access to the market while enabling electricity suppliers and other market participants to innovate in this area. To provide space for this small-scale export market to develop and to promote innovation, the legislation sets out no specified minimum tariff rate, other than that a supplier must provide payment greater than zero at all times of export.
The SEG has been successful in bringing forward a range of competitive and innovative offerings to the market, with small-scale renewable generators having several tariffs to choose from, including several that are higher than the fixed export rate mandated by the previous Feed-in Tariffs scheme.
Ofgem are to publish their first report on the provisions made by suppliers for smaller scale exports in the summer. We will review this to monitor whether the market is delivering an effective, competitive and innovative range of options.
Written Question
Friday 26th March 2021
Asked by:
Anthony Browne (Conservative - South Cambridgeshire)
Question
to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has any plans to mandate a reduction in (a) plastic and (b) other non-degradable content in fireworks sold in the UK.
Answered by Paul Scully
Fireworks placed on the market must be safe. The Government welcomes the reduction of the use of plastics in fireworks and initiatives underway by the fireworks industry. We are not at present planning any other action to mandate a reduction in the use of plastic or other non-degradable content in fireworks sold in the UK.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 23 Mar 2021
Advanced Research and Invention Agency Bill
"If you do not mind, Mr Deputy Speaker, I wish to make a slight confession: I am suffering from a rather extreme out-of-body experience. I have spent the past three and a half hours listening to Members from all parties—from not just the Conservatives but Labour, the SNP, the Liberal …..."Anthony Browne - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 17 Mar 2021
Research and Development Funding
"I thank the hon. Member for Cambridge (Daniel Zeichner)— a fellow Cambridge city MP. I have the south of the city. It is fantastic to have this debate on this issue, which is really important for all the reasons he highlighted. It is enormously important for the country but also …..."Anthony Browne - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 17 Mar 2021
Research and Development Funding
"They might be able to use the hon. Gentleman’s hair—he has some left and they could use the DNA.
The Government support the life sciences industry, through the biomedical catalyst, with £30 million a year— that is a very welcome and successful scheme. An Ipsos MORI report last year showed …..."Anthony Browne - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 16 Dec 2020
Border Carbon Adjustment Tariffs and Decarbonisation
"I commend my hon. Friend and his campaign for border carbon adjustment payments, which makes absolute sense. There is no reason why people who are not green should get a competitive advantage over those countries that are leading in the battle to become carbon neutral. My question is a somewhat …..."Anthony Browne - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 16 Dec 2020
Border Carbon Adjustment Tariffs and Decarbonisation
"I commend my hon. Friend on his absolutely fascinating speech. It is clearly good to try to get global co-operation on this as a coalition of the willing, as he put it, among as many countries and trading partners as possible. If we fail to do that, does he think …..."Anthony Browne - View Speech
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