Speeches by Taylor.

“As the chair of the all-party parliamentary group for the future of aviation, travel and aerospace, I have met a number of the groups that will be presenting today. In fact, I met Rob only yesterday for information on the Bill and its content.”

“Q I have one straightforward question, and one that is a little more spiky. First, we have heard a lot about the need to work across Government to ensure that we get the most effective outcome from the Bill. From all the evidence we have heard, it seems to be the right thing and structured well, but how do we ensure th…”

“Q The SAF mandate is 10% by 2030. The EU target is much lower: 6%, I think. Our target goes up to 22% by 2040, but elsewhere the target increases more dramatically. As Heathrow is such a large user—17% is a massive component—will the mandate be achievable alongside the goals and targets set out in the Bill? You have sa…”

“Q Thank you, Mr Pritchard. Minister, your first answer was very helpful. My second question is on a theme that I have brought up a couple of times, and which echoes the evidence around ETS funding from a couple of the witnesses. I am going to be a bit pointed, but if you had had the choice and the permission from the T…”

“Q It is the broader question of how this sits within the system. The implications of this Bill are really broad in the way the incentives will come into a whole different set of markets, including agriculture, waste and local government. Philip New: First, I challenge the suggestion that this is an incentive. I think o…”

“Q As a good Liberal Democrat, I want to talk about bins again. Incineration and energy recovery facilities are broadly seen as the least worst options. If there is now an alternative, lots of us will be very interested in the opportunities for local authorities and for making conditions better for our residents. If tha…”

“Q I want to be very careful with this question. We have had questions about investors and appetites to put money into these technologies—into refineries, production and particular projects. There was previously a fairly strong consensus on the need to address climate change, and this is one of the projects that we are …”

“I thank the hon. Member for Edinburgh South West (Dr Arthur) for his work on the Bill, and all those who have supported its progress. I rise briefly for two reasons. First, to speak for a constituent, Kate, who is only 40 years old and has an inoperable brain cancer. Kate contacted me this week to tell me about her cas…”

“We will soon find out.”

“I have no interest in intervening.”

“Not Members—just one.”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Western. I thank the hon. Member for Kensington and Bayswater (Joe Powell) for securing this debate. London is not where I was born, but for so many of us who come to our great city, it is where our life begins. As a wide-eyed, bushy-tailed teenager arriving to study a…”

“The hon. Lady gives a stirring defence of the Mayor of London. We are trying to make the point that there is no cross-Government holistic view of London’s priorities. Londoners need a voice inside the Government: our interests ought to be not divided out across Departments and responsibilities, but co-ordinated and add…”

“Just specifically on that then, I do not know whether you are aware of the example here, but we have an example of an MP recently asking for figures from the ONS on public sector headcount. The Cabinet Office discarded the analysis prepared by the ONS and instead drafted its own figures response. In response to a follo…”

“I would like to move on to some impacts on MPs in our dealings with the ONS. There was a suggestion that recent parliamentary questions appear to have been written by Cabinet Office SpAds rather than statisticians. I guess the question is whether there is a lack of confidence from the Cabinet Office in the data that th…”

“This report is an utterly damning assessment of our national resilience, this time through decay but also through a lack of readiness as the climate crisis changes the dynamics, with old equipment operating at higher temperatures just as the loads for climate control and air conditioning are at their peak. The British …”

“I just wanted to explore that a little. Yes, it is the role to be sceptical and ensure that the quality is there but there seems to be a bit of optimism bias that actually we figured this out, we can recover this. But by the point it dropped to 16% and the period of being able to weight the data to fill in the gaps ran…”

“Apologies for reopening a conversation that we have had at length. Ed, you spoke about how you first raised concerns in March 2020, but that must have been an accumulation of problems that you had seen occurring up until that point. So that was not the first point at which problems were occurring; that was when the fir…”

“Sorry, yes. By that point, it was too far gone to recover. Is that a fair assessment?”

“Earlier this week I was contacted by a long-suffering commuter using Worcester Park station. She wrote: “As a teacher my days are already demanding, often filled with pressure, high energy, and very little downtime. Sadly, commuting to and from work now feels just as stressful. Trains during peak hours are frequently s…”