Speeches by Heylings.

“I just wanted the Committee to understand. I think that we have heard from you, Dr Chapman, but also from you, Mr Meaney, assumptions that it was the carbon pricing ETS that has changed behaviour, so demand management has worked, in terms of short haul to medium haul. Is there evidence to show that that assumption has …”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Dame Siobhain. I am pleased to speak in this important and timely debate on the future of the gas grid. I thank the hon. Member for Cannock Chase (Josh Newbury) for securing this increasingly urgent debate and for his expertise on the matter, and I wish him many happy ret…”

“We welcome the Government’s renewed focus on energy security through nuclear power as part of the energy mix. It is long overdue, after years of dither and delay from successive Conservative Governments. It has been 16 years since Sizewell C was first announced in 2009, and now, seven Prime Ministers later, we are fina…”

“The North sea’s future lies in clean energy, but despite the UK’s billing as a wind superpower, we still import most of our wind turbine components while communities around the North sea are losing jobs. Trade unions and industry are united in calling for £1.1 billion a year to build up domestic renewables manufacturin…”

“Warm wishes for your birthday, Mr Speaker—and I am going to talk about warmth, as you might expect. Over the last decade, we have seen so many households living in Dickensian conditions, with dark, damp and cold homes, and having to choose between heating and eating. With the warm homes plan widely recognised as the mo…”

“I cannot help but wonder whether the Secretary of State imagined when he stood at his Dispatch Box back in 2009 that he would be back in 2025 still announcing funding for the same project. We support investment in clean, home-grown energy. Small modular nuclear reactors have real potential to reduce our dependence on f…”

“Will the hon. Member let me continue?”

“I declare my interest as co-chair of the all-party group on local nature recovery. When the Government first introduced this Bill, they branded it a win-win. They said that we could build the homes and infrastructure that this country desperately needs and protect and restore nature. We have seen in my constituency—one…”

“I completely concur. We appreciate the work done by my hon. Friend and others in the Bill Committee, and by tabling numerous amendments at this stage to help the Government improve the Bill. Why do we need more stringent regulations and demands on developers, rather than less? Why do we need evidence and mitigations ap…”

“If I understand you correctly, you do not think that there is. You have not seen or encountered for you misuse of exemption.”

“It is almost double counting.”

“Going back to you, Ms Toovey, you seemed to be raising a red flag about any changes to further exemptions. We know that six months ago the Government’s development and nature recovery working paper said that they would commit fully implementing biodiversity net gain, but just last week we have had announced the consult…”

“That is 40% of transactions equivalent to how much?”

“That is pretty serious for us, that we are looking at a nascent market a year in and we are looking at messages to the market that would undermine this because it is taking a huge chunk out of that market on the financial side, and on the biodiversity and ecology side it is having a huge impact on that locally. That is…”

“That is pretty serious for us, that we are looking at a nascent market a year in and we are looking at messages to the market that would undermine this because it is taking a huge chunk out of that market on the financial side, and on the biodiversity and ecology side it is having a huge impact on that locally. That is…”

“It is almost double counting.”

“Going back to you, Ms Toovey, you seemed to be raising a red flag about any changes to further exemptions. We know that six months ago the Government’s development and nature recovery working paper said that they would commit fully implementing biodiversity net gain, but just last week we have had announced the consult…”

“If I understand you correctly, you do not think that there is. You have not seen or encountered for you misuse of exemption.”

“What we have heard from you is that this nascent nature market is starting to kick in, change behaviour and show promise. However, for the market to work it would need for the rules to apply to everyone. I want to explore the Committee’s concerns about potential bypassing of biodiversity net gain. In the first instance…”

“If over 75% of planning portal applications are saying that they are looking at exemptions, are there any that you think that the Committee should be looking at?”