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Written Question
Wind Power: Neighbourhood Development Plans
Monday 13th May 2019

Asked by: Clive Lewis (Labour - Norwich South)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many areas in the UK have been designated as suitable for onshore wind in (a) local and (b) neighbourhood plans in England since the Written Statement of 18 June 2015, Official Report 9WS on Local Planning.

Answered by Kelly Tolhurst

Sites identified as suitable for onshore wind development can be located in local authorities’ local or neighbourhood plans, all of which are available for the public to view.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 23 Apr 2019
Climate Action and Extinction Rebellion

"I welcome the Minister’s comments about listening to and acting on the science. If that is the case, the Committee on Climate Change has questioned whether support for oil and gas may become incompatible with the Government’s long-term climate change objectives. In the spirit of not disappearing down a rabbit …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 19 Mar 2019
Oral Answers to Questions

"14. What steps he plans to take to support small and medium-sized renewable power generators after the scheduled closure of the feed-in tariffs scheme. ..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 19 Mar 2019
Oral Answers to Questions

"From listening to the Government’s rhetoric on climate change, we could be forgiven for thinking that the school strikers are coming out in support of them; they are coming out against them, and if we cut through the greenwash we see the feed-in tariff axed, the solar energy sector decimated, …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 28 Feb 2019
Net Zero Carbon Emissions: UK’s Progress

"Does the hon. Gentleman acknowledge that the IPCC report on a 1.5°C target said that we need to make the necessary reductions to our greenhouse emissions by 2030? Unfortunately, the Government are telling the Committee on Climate Change that they cannot look at that reduction until 2050. That seems to …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 28 Feb 2019
Net Zero Carbon Emissions: UK’s Progress

"I am going to be slightly partisan in what I say, and not for the sake of it, but more as a polemic. I genuinely feel that those young people called their school strikes because they think this place is sleepwalking off a cliff edge, not in terms of Brexit—although …..."
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Written Question
Industry: Carbon Emissions
Wednesday 17th October 2018

Asked by: Clive Lewis (Labour - Norwich South)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 13 September 2018 to Question 170860, whether she has requested an assessment of the effect on the extractive industries of reductions in emissions targets as part of his Department's advice to the Committee on Climate Change.

Answered by Claire Perry

In our commission for advice on the implications of the Paris Agreement for the UK’s long-term targets, we have asked the Committee on Climate Change to provide evidence on how further reductions in our emissions might be delivered across all sectors of the economy. We will consider the CCC’s advice carefully when it is received.

Written Question
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Departmental Responsibilities
Thursday 25th January 2018

Asked by: Clive Lewis (Labour - Norwich South)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will publish the responsibilities of each Minister of his Department.

Answered by Lord Harrington of Watford

The responsibilities of each Minister in the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy are published on Gov.uk at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-business-energy-and-industrial-strategy

Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 28 Nov 2017
Smart Meters Bill (Fifth sitting)

"A cartel...."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 28 Nov 2017
Smart Meters Bill (Fifth sitting)

"It is not so much that the administrator would need to keep the public informed of every step they were taking, but that if the public, MPs or parliamentarians or others were interested, they would have access to the information to ensure that lessons could be learned in the future, …..."
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