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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 09 Mar 2022
Large Solar Farms

"The hon. Gentleman and I have been debating these issues for longer than either of us care to remember. I am sure he will acknowledge that against that backdrop—the objective he set out—it is important to measure the environmental cost of renewables. The manufacture, siting and anchoring, for example, of …..."
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Written Question
Hallmarking
Tuesday 30th March 2021

Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to develop a UK hallmark.

Answered by Paul Scully

The UK already has four unique and internationally-recognised hallmarks representing the four UK Assay Offices: London, Birmingham, Edinburgh and Sheffield.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 17 Nov 2020
National Security and Investment Bill

"Does not the coronavirus provide us with another lesson, which is that Government historically have not been terribly good at assessing risk and modelling the response to it? I say that as a former Minister, like my right hon. Friend. I was always surprised, in all the Departments I served …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 17 Nov 2020
National Security and Investment Bill

"This Bill is welcome, necessary, important and, it has to be said, overdue. In making a few remarks about it, I draw the Minister’s attention to the fact that the Chairman of the ISC, the right hon. Member for New Forest East (Dr Lewis), is not able to be with …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 17 Nov 2020
National Security and Investment Bill

"I do, but the challenge in a democratic polity is ensuring sufficient accountability while maintaining that degree of flexibility. It is all much easier in less democratic countries—I use that term as gingerly and modestly as I can—which are not obliged to legitimise or justify what their Governments do. We …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 17 Nov 2020
National Security and Investment Bill

"That is true. Vulnerability, of course, is also dynamic. That is why I emphasised, in intervening on my right hon. Friend the Member for Tunbridge Wells (Greg Clark), that the Government need to get better at assessing risk and modelling the response to it. This is what the Bill begins …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 17 Nov 2020
National Security and Investment Bill

"The right hon. Gentleman made that point in his contribution earlier and it seems to me to be a profound one. In establishing the new processes and the new governance associated with this legislation, it is vital that the interaction with the intelligence services, and all the skills available to …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 17 Nov 2020
National Security and Investment Bill

"Yes, the Minister needs to explain how the Government’s arrangements for the new investment security remit interface and interact with the national security structures that already exist, such as the investment security group. There needs to be clarity about the process, as I described it a few moments ago...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 17 Nov 2020
National Security and Investment Bill

"That is an excellent suggestion from another member of the Intelligence and Security Committee. My goodness, we are here in force and working as a team, as you can see, Madam Deputy Speaker. It is important that the House considers these matters, as well as the Committees I mentioned which …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 17 Nov 2020
National Security and Investment Bill

"I am terribly grateful, Madam Deputy Speaker. I do not know whether it was the persuasiveness of the case I was making or its imperfection that has encouraged 1,001 people to intervene on me. Perhaps it was the latter, but I will give way no more and move to the …..."
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