Speeches by Chope.

“If they are happening now, why has it not been set up at the same time?”

“Can you give some specific examples of where things have changed as a result of the Prime Minister’s leadership on this issue?”

“Has that actually happened?”

“Can you illustrate an example of where that has already happened? You say it is already in process.”

“Is there a role for Government in this?”

“Can I ask you both whether you use named day WPQs in a different way from ordinary WPQs, and what criteria you apply?”

“One of the distinctions between those two sorts of questions is that if you fail to answer a named day question by the specified date, then you provide a holding answer. It always used to be that when you got your final answer, there would be a reference to the date of the holding answer supplied. In a sense that was a…”

“You probably will not need me to point out that you did not get an answer to that question in the end. Instead of yes or no, the answer extended to seven lines. If you read them through, you can see that there is no answer to the question at all, so it may be that you will have to ask further questions. Another example…”

“Perhaps I can jog your memory. The question was: “To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office whether the Independent Adviser on Ministerial Standards’ review into Labour Together is being assisted by the Propriety and Ethics Team”. On the face of it, that seems a very straightforward question with a yes or no answer.”

“The price of net zero for many people is too high because it leads to de-industrialisation. To what extent do you think advanced nuclear technologies can enable us to counter the need for de-industrialisation in attaining our net zero commitments?”

“Do you think we should stop our policy of de-industrialisation at the moment because we know that just around the corner you have these advanced nuclear technologies that can actually solve the problem? Is there not a danger that if we carry on de-industrialising as we are at the moment, it will be too late to recover …”

“My final question is this. Do you both think that it would be desirable to reintroduce the practice of identifying when a holding answer was given to a named day question?”

“One of the issues at the moment is around AI and the demands that AI imposes upon the electricity grid. Do you think that we should be encouraging AI data centres to be dependent upon advanced nuclear technology, rather than imposing demands upon the existing grid?”

“Would you suggest that these big data centres should in the short term rely upon gas, for example, with a view to being able to embrace the advanced nuclear technologies in the longer term, without actually having to put a burden on the national grid in the meantime?”

“Following on from that, can you tell us what you think the main challenges are in linking AMR developers with end users? How can we address those?”

“This is one for Alastair: should advanced reactors primarily connect to industrial users through private wire arrangements or be integrated into the national grid?”

“What upgrades or new infrastructure would the national grid require to support this deployment?”

“Eighty-four per cent of the people in Christchurch voted against being forced into a unitary merger with Bournemouth and Poole, and they are still living with the consequences of that merger; a formerly debt-free council is now burdened with enormous debts and inefficiency. This year, the Minister agreed that it could …”

“Can the Secretary of State tell us what the Government are doing to address the problem of number plate fraud? Number plates are being falsely registered to wrong addresses by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency, vehicle number plates are being cloned, and false number plates are being used, all of which is contrib…”

“On the CBAM point, to what extent do you think this is impacting or could impact the financial viability of the four remaining oil refineries?”