Speeches by Gardiner.

“That would be very helpful if you would come back to us in writing. Mr Kite?”

“That would be very helpful if you would come back to us in writing. Mr Kite?”

“I think you and I could become good friends on that one.”

“If I can turn to Dr Hills, when an application comes forward to bulldoze and existing property should there be an obligation to look at retrofitting before that happens?”

“Let us look forward at the targets that we have for 2050 because the one thing we do know is that between 75% and 85% of the houses that we will have in 2050 have already been built. What is the importance of retrofitting here? How should we be looking at that in comparison with new build, and what are your views on th…”

“Basically when we look at things like solar panels there has been debate between the previous Government and this Government as to what the role of solar panels on new builds should be, but would you like to see it mandated that as a default—not in every case because it is not suitable in every case—but that the defaul…”

“Thank you. We have received evidence that says it is between 5% and 9% of that total carbon budget. When we are thinking about all the other aspects of delivering on the fifth and sixth carbon budgets this will be a critical element. It is helpful to have the comments you have made, Ms Neal, from the point of view of R…”

“If we look at our total carbon budget between 2025 and 2030 we have been talking about embodied carbon. Can you give us an idea of what percentage of that total carbon budget would be taken up by embodied carbon of 1.5 million homes?”

“Very briefly, Dr Boulton, you mentioned Buglife. I think this Committee, in a previous life, has heard evidence from Buglife in relation to brownfield sites, where specifically it was chemical sites and contaminated chemical sites that had some extremely rare and valued biodiversity on it from an invertebrate point of …”

“When it comes to the data, open source data with clarity of standards so that it is absolutely apparent to everybody what we are dealing with and what we are achieving as a result?”

“I have some in my own constituency, don’t you worry. So far, when we have been thinking about this issue of whole life carbon, what you said to us is, “We want clarity of standards, we want uniformity of application of those standards, and that will require Government mandating and regulation”. These are the things tha…”

“I think you and I could become good friends on that one.”

“If I can turn to Dr Hills, when an application comes forward to bulldoze and existing property should there be an obligation to look at retrofitting before that happens?”

“Today, Lord Ericht has ruled that the consent for the Rosebank and Jackdaw oil and gas fields was granted unlawfully by the previous Government because they had failed to properly account for the effect on the climate of burning the fossil fuels that would be extracted. Can we have a debate on the future of the Roseban…”

“Forty years ago this month, my wife almost died of an eclamptic seizure because a general practitioner had failed to recognise the symptoms of pre-eclampsia. According to the most recent report on pre-eclampsia, four times as many women are dying of pre-eclampsia today than were dying in 2012. That is an absolute disgr…”

“My recollection from previous bouts of avian influenza is that there were serious problems with delays and with compensation, because farmers who were trying to do a preventive cull of their birds had to wait for an inspection to take place, and if that inspection had not taken place, compensation would not be given. T…”

“We have heard that we have the best marine science in the world, so I am sure the evidence base is out there. Maybe we just need to gather it together a bit quicker. We have touched on regulation and enforcement, the implementation and the management regimes. I think you have said that currently they are perhaps less t…”

“Let me ask this question to get us a bit more specific. It is my final question, I promise. With the Indian overseas territories marine biome, how confident or how concerned is the scientific community that the level of enforcement under Mauritian sovereignty will be able to combat the pressures of illegal fishing in t…”

“If we turn to the Indian overseas territories and the Chagos biome—the marine biome—we know that there will be pressure on fisheries in that area, because the enforcement that we have already has shown that there is encroachment by fishing.”

“Why has the MMO not yet proceeded to stage 3 and 4?”