Speeches by Gardiner.

“I congratulate my hon. Friend on resisting the calls from those who have exploited leaseholders for far too long and on capping ground rent. I welcome the assurance that we are moving from the outdated feudal system of leasehold to a proper commonhold future to give the full rights of ownership to leaseholders, but my …”

“I respect your ruling, Mr Speaker. I will leave it at that.”

“Happy new year to you, Mr Speaker. Delays in the court system mean that one of my constituents has been in prison on remand awaiting trial for over a year. She is in New Hall Prison, 200 miles away from her mother, who is disabled and cannot make that journey. She has requested a transfer to Bronzefield Prison, so her …”

“Picking up on what my colleague Jonathan Davies has just said, you do publish this, of course, and it is available for MPs, but would it make sense for you to send, as he suggested, an executive summary to each MP? Very often, you go into the Table Office or the Vote Office and, finding all the documents that you might…”

“It is £1,500.”

“So it is good that I made the point now, is it?”

“Thank you for that. Just finally, you said that you would be commenting on current policy in the summer, and I wanted to pick up what you said, Mr Topping, about the public engagement that you had had. The carbon price support mechanism applies a top-up charge to fossil fuels burned for electricity generation of £18 pe…”

“I do not think that you are assuming it. What I said was that your advice is to use fewer imports of biomass. If we were to take that to the extreme by importing all the biomass, it would be 3%. Those are the figures that I have on that. I want to move on to what you said about biogas. We have heard in evidence that th…”

“Unless we look at it in that holistic way from the point of view of biodiversity, farming and food security, we are not arriving at a sustainable solution.”

“We are aligned on that.”

“If I could just add, if the Government follow your recommendation to stop importing as much biomass, reproducing the same biomass in the UK would take 3% of its land area, which is more than is being used for farming at the moment. I am really keen to understand the holistic way in which you have looked at these techno…”

“While you are on demand reduction, can I just ask you specifically about that? The CCC position is that we need a carbon price on non-EU air travel. You say £272 per tonne by 2029, and the jet zero strategy assumes a carbon price on non-EU flights from 2035 of £484 per tonne by 2050. You know as well as anybody that, a…”

“That is the nicest thing that anybody has said to me for a long time, Chair, that I am in my prime. I thought that I was well past it, but there we are. Mr Topping, we are dealing with what you have admittedly said are the riskier elements—direct air capture, sustainable aviation fuel, and BECCS with carbon capture. 60…”

“The Government are saying that. Their estimates are higher than yours, but I disagree with them as well.”

“It is a critical moment, but we will resume.”

“I accept what you said to the Chair earlier, but there are real question marks here over BECCS and SAF, never mind DAC.”

“Ms Pinchbeck, last time we spoke at this Committee, I challenged the CCC on its approach to SAF. You said then what you have just said to my colleagues now: “I will tell you next time”. Now is the next time, and I want to push you a bit on this. Broadly, the Committee has received evidence so far that says that the bal…”

“Following the reduction of their grant by 9% in real terms, National Parks and National Landscapes were explicitly encouraged to use biodiversity net gain markets to attract private finance. I was disappointed, therefore, to see that in setting out their consultation on planning reform proposals on Tuesday, the Governm…”

“The Solicitor General is absolutely right to say that justice delayed is justice denied. My constituent Qesser Zuhrah has been on remand in prison for over a year. Two other constituents, Heba Muraisi and Lewie Chiaramello, have also been on remand, awaiting trial. None of the offences of which they are accused are off…”

“May the blessings of Christmas be with you, Madam Deputy Speaker, and all who serve in this place. Few of us can imagine the extraordinary difficulty of studying for university exams in a war zone, so I was delighted about, and commend the Government for, setting up the scholarship scheme for students from Gaza who won…”