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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 05 Jul 2022
Energy Security Strategy

"It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Davies. I congratulate the hon. Member for Birkenhead (Mick Whitley) on securing this debate.

I think we have all understood, intellectually, that our energy supply is a national security issue, but that reality has smacked us in the face this …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 07 Jun 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"3. What steps he is taking to support new low-carbon technologies. ..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 07 Jun 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"In recent months, I have had a number of emails from constituents who have taken the Government’s encouragement to look at getting a heat pump, but have found the cost just too high for them. What steps is my right hon. Friend taking to help bring down the cost of …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 22 Feb 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"T2. My right hon. Friend the Minister will know that I am the promoter of the Local Electricity Bill, which is supported by just under 300 Members of this House, and I will be chairing a new all-party parliamentary group on community energy to promote it. Does he agree that …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 21 Feb 2022
Storm Eunice

"Jack Bristow from Sutton Courtenay in my constituency is one of the four people who lost their lives in Storm Eunice. He had been using his truck to help with the aftermath of the storm down in Hampshire when a tree fell on it. He was only 23 years old …..."
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Written Question
Solar Power: Space Technology
Tuesday 30th November 2021

Asked by: David Johnston (Conservative - Wantage)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of allocating funding to the development of space based solar power.

Answered by George Freeman

A report which includes some of those potential merits is available on the Government website: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/space-based-solar-power-de-risking-the-pathway-to-net-zero.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 19 Oct 2021
Supporting Small Business

"My hon. Friend makes the point about the shortfall if we get rid of business rates. Those on the Opposition Benches also talk about the national insurance rise, which is raising £36 billion to go into the health service and social care. Is he as unclear as I am on …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 19 Oct 2021
Supporting Small Business

"I completely agree with the hon. Lady that we need jobs in other parts of the country, but does she agree with me that the big risk of remote working is that younger workers will not develop the skills, knowledge and connections that they do when they are in the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 19 Oct 2021
Supporting Small Business

"It is a pleasure to speak in the debate.

I am blessed in having a great many small businesses in Wantage and Didcot, from those that create medical devices and vaccines to those that clear debris from space. I have more pubs in my constituency than all but seven other …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 23 Mar 2021
Advanced Research and Invention Agency Bill

"I am privileged to have lots of world-class science in my constituency, not least at Harwell campus, which used to be hidden from Ordnance Survey maps when it was doing what it was with atomic energy, but is now very much on the map of the world’s leading scientific research …..."
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