Speeches by Onn.

“Does the technology exist to connect project to project?”

“Yes, basically. I am a director of a community energy group. We have a number of different projects, but they are dispersed across the locality. If we could have other projects that were close together, we could link them up and the power generation would be much more beneficial. We would be able to then sell additiona…”

“I congratulate the hon. Member for Twickenham (Munira Wilson) on securing this really important UQ. I am the chair of the all-party parliamentary group on kinship care. I welcome the Minister’s confirmation that £50 million will be allocated this year to this incredibly important fund. That will end the limbo that fami…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Vickers. I congratulate the hon. Member for St Ives (Andrew George) on securing this important debate at a critical time in the EU negotiations. I had not intended to make a speech—I was just going to intervene—but I heard him lamenting the interventions. I will foc…”

“Is there a risk, as we have seen in some other sectors, of the creation of a two-tier workforce and importing skills from elsewhere?”

“Anna, this is my final question. In terms of the potential drawbacks of importing that skilled labour, do you think there is anything that could come from importing that knowledge that would benefit local workforces?”

“With the changing set of jobs that come with this transition, James, do you think that there is anything the Government could do to ensure that supply and demand for labour matches across the entirety of the country? You mentioned in your opening comments that there was a risk of things being concentrated in London and…”

“Who are the people on those vessels employed by?”

“Who is responsible for that area?”

“What comes first, the jobs or the training?”

“You just talked about the cold spots around training. We have had evidence that there is a lack of skills in specialist roles, particularly engineering, technicians and things like that. Do you think there is a need to recruit from abroad to deliver clean energy by 2030 and to decarbonise buildings by 2050? They are pr…”

“How long does it take to train to participate in any part of retrofitting activity?”

“It is an ageing workforce across construction broadly, isn’t it?”

“There is a need to get that experience passed on.”

“We are not going to do that until the demand is there.”

“Demand has to come first before we get the trainers, before we do two to three years of training for these people and then they have another two, three, four, five years to get the experience to be able to do this. That sounds like a long way off.”

“In terms of immediate need and if we were to require skills support from other countries, is there a sense of which countries we would require them to come from or where there is an excessive glut of said skilled individuals?”

“Anna, this is my final question. In terms of the potential drawbacks of importing that skilled labour, do you think there is anything that could come from importing that knowledge that would benefit local workforces?”

“Is there a risk, as we have seen in some other sectors, of the creation of a two-tier workforce and importing skills from elsewhere?”

“Who are the people on those vessels employed by?”