Speeches by Downie.

“I am short of time; I can feel the Chair’s energy telling me to—”

“Would you say they are secure no matter what happens in the North sea or to UK oil and gas?”

“Thank you, Chair. I am also a member of GMB. David, let me pick up on some of the issues you talked about earlier around opportunities and investment. You are in the press today talking about the oil and gas price mechanism, which could raise a significant amount of funding. Is that something you are looking for becaus…”

“As part of transition, should we be looking to make those businesses 100% export? Are there ways and how can we try to support that, if there is a long-term decline in UK oil and gas?”

“What do we need to do to support those kinds of things—that kind of diversity?”

“I share the Chair’s scepticism about level playing fields and different wordings for how we support or choose not to support. How do we decide what area to focus on and help them with, and what does that level playing field look like? Which playing field is level?”

“What assumptions are the figures that you have put out this morning based on? If this is something that is in some ways a higher tax, what are the assumptions that say it will raise the funds that you are suggesting it will?”

“As part of transition, should we be looking to make those businesses 100% export? Are there ways and how can we try to support that, if there is a long-term decline in UK oil and gas?”

“If, say, there is a 20, 30, or 40-year decline in UK oil and gas and therefore less of a domestic market, how do you try to make sure that those businesses are supported? Does it become: those are market forces?”

“Verity, what impact would a change in policy to either reverse or accelerate the decline in domestic oil and gas production have in the UK, or in UK manufacturing?”

“I am about to run out of time. Claire, what is your view of signals that the Government could send or would be sending by either moving to the OGPM or not, or by legislating for a licensing ban or not? Would you have any concerns for you and your workers about the signals that might send?”

“One last brief question. We have a difficulty sometimes in these sectors where energy is reserved to the UK Government, but we have skills policy devolved to the Scottish Government. [Interruption.] That is often my reaction as well. What engagement are you having with the Scottish Government? We heard from the previou…”

“Thank you.”

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“As ever, my hon. Friend is correct. How many of us have had some bit of technology break because the firmware is no longer allowed to be updated, meaning that something no longer works, it is no longer supported and it breaks down immediately? To add to that, by its nature, something that is not regularly updated becom…”

“Will the Minister give way on that point?”

“I would be more than happy to work with the Government on something that will provide specific protections against cellular internet-of-things modules. What assessment has he made of the specific threat of internet-of-things modules, and what protections are there against that in the legislation?”

“That proves why we need more awareness of the threat that we face. It is not necessarily a case of banning certain components or technologies, but we must be more aware and ensure that the Government have the powers they need to respond where possible.”

“I refer Members to my registered interest as parliamentary chair of the Campaign for Secure Technology, which I thank for its work in preparing my two amendments as well as my speech. I echo the comments of my hon. Friends the Members for Leeds Central and Headingley (Alex Sobel) and for Newcastle upon Tyne Central and…”

“11. When she last met the National Farmers’ Union of Scotland.”