Speeches by Mathew.

“Dr Cooper and I saw and witnessed, when we were in Cape Town a few weeks ago, what CERI is doing with its links right across Africa in disease identification. It is very important.”

“It is an honour to serve under your chairship, Mr Mundell. I thank the hon. Member for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk (John Lamont) for introducing this important debate on behalf of the Petitions Committee. Like many in this place, I have skin in this game. In my case, members of my family were brought up in North…”

“It is an honour to serve under your chairship, Ms McVey. I thank the hon. Member for Hinckley and Bosworth (Dr Evans) for securing this valuable debate. Let me take you, Ms McVey, and the Minister to my constituency of Melksham and Devizes, in the beautiful county of Wiltshire, where many villages have worked to develo…”

“As I tried to make out in my speech, the worry of a two-tier system, where some communities can afford a neighbourhood plan and others simply cannot, will be important. The only way out that I can think of would be a simplification of the neighbourhood planning process, which would allow communities to get on and do it…”

“I agree entirely with the right hon. Member. I urge the Government to reconsider their decision. Local democracy should not be a luxury available only to those who can afford to pay for it.”

“Does the right hon. Member agree that this is an issue of not just policy, but dignity? These women’s voices must be heard, and the Government have a responsibility to honour commitments made, to give fair treatment, and to ensure that something is done.”

“My hon. Friend will remember that on our trip to the west bank late last year, some of us witnessed a girls’ school that had been tear-gassed just the day before; in fact, it still had smouldering shells in the roof. Does she agree that UNRWA schools and their children must be protected?”

“It is a pleasure to speak under your chairship, Sir Jeremy. I thank the hon. Member for Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket (Peter Prinsley) for securing this important debate. I thought I would offer some of my experiences of listening to the BBC World Service over the years: from winning a T-shirt from David Lee Travis’s …”

“It is an honour to serve under your chairship, Dame Siobhain. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Newton Abbot (Martin Wrigley) for securing this important and timely debate. I will quote a GP in Melksham and Devizes who also covers part of the neighbouring constituency. He wrote in an email to me this week: “Without…”

“I totally agree with my hon. Friend. On funding, although the general medical services baseline is around two thirds of our income, it has gone up by 7.2%, with 6% eaten up by the increases in employer national insurance contributions and the national living wage. Our other income streams—dispensing, QOF and enhanced s…”

“I seem to remember, it was two cows, zero grazed, would give you enough biogas for a family.”

“Ed, how is clean energy defined in the context of your programme?”

“Juliette, how does the Shell Foundation define clean energy? What is included under this term?”

“Melita, over to you. I have a string of questions for you. We have heard throughout this inquiry that UK aid has had a positive impact on improving energy access for local communities. Would you agree with this assessment?”

“I can follow with the next question. If you recommend UK aid focuses on areas of relative strength, is energy access one of those priority areas?”

“Thank you. That is good and nice to know. That is a one-word answer for that one. Secondly, considering the scale of Shell group’s carbon emissions, how does the Foundation respond to concerns that it has worked among greenwashing?”

“I have two more questions for Juliette. This is where I play bad cop, so apologies for that. Is it correct to say that FCDO donations are supporting fossil fuel projects or investments?”

“Out of interest, do you look at biogas at all?”

“In a nutshell, what challenges or shortcomings have you observed in how UK aid approaches energy access?”

“Right, there are lots of questions. You have raised concerns that UK aid does not always sufficiently support local participation and ownership. Can you provide examples where this has been an issue in energy-related initiatives?”