Speeches by Heylings.

“My hon. Friend has brought forward a critical debate on children’s hospices. While we are looking at children’s hospices, let me say that this issue is also critical for adult hospices. In South Cambridgeshire, we have the fabulous Arthur Rank hospice, which at the moment is looking toward the cutting of its adult hosp…”

“Will the Minister give way?”

“Frighteningly, the Earth has already reached its first climate tipping point linked to global warming. We are now seeing warm water coral reefs going into irreversible decline, which is threatening nature and millions of people and their livelihoods. The climate crisis is a global emergency and needs leadership, and wh…”

“I welcome the new Ministers to their place—I look forward to working with them—and I congratulate the Secretary of State and the Minister for Energy on holding on to their posts, which we are glad to see. One of the best ways to bring down household bills is to help homeowners and small businesses make their properties…”

“But Ed Davey was the only person who—”

“I could not agree more. I have worked internationally for 20 years, and I have seen that when Britain leads, other countries follow. Our Climate Change Act was the first in the world, and 60 countries immediately followed it. Other countries followed the independent Climate Change Committee. I have seen emerging econom…”

“Absolutely, and that is where the just transition must come in. We must make sure that this works at home. In fact, when we look at the amount of food being produced, we need to talk about nutritional security rather than food security. Finally, the UK must lead at COP30. Belém will be a turning point. Negotiations are…”

“I beg to move, That this House has considered COP30 and global food system transformation. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mrs Harris. I appreciate the chance to have this debate, which is of critical importance, both globally and in our country, where the hottest summer since records began is pushing o…”

“I thank my hon. Friend for that, and I applaud her constant advocacy in Parliament on behalf of farmers. The second part of the debate is about the conference of the parties and how we can bring about legally binding obligations that translate into exactly the kind of measures my hon. Friend talked about. In just a few…”

“I will perhaps come back to that a little later, but I agree completely about the importance of the SPF, as well as the sustainable farming incentive. In my constituency of South Cambridgeshire, we have public land—council land—working on regenerative agriculture with farmers, to provide the food we need. We need the s…”

“On a point of order, Mr Speaker. On 1 September, the hon. Member for Rutherglen (Michael Shanks), now Minister of State in the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, issued a written statement on the contingent liabilities from the funded decommissioning programme and Government support package for Sizewell C, wh…”

“Yes, and so Chair, it is very important that we have all that correspondence and can point to it. We have read it, but if we are going to take the public with us then we have to make sure that we are confident in the advice that the committee on climate change is giving us. I find it quite serious that it is being chal…”

“I just wanted to quickly come back on your points about contracts for difference, Emma. Could you perhaps give some reassurance to the Committee and others about how legally secure contracts secured under Allocation Round 7 (AR7) would be in the future, in terms of making sure we have a context of certainty for investm…”

“The committee on climate change’s consistent headline recommendation for some time—including in the seventh carbon budget—has been to bring down electricity prices, and we know that is absolutely critical for taking people with us, families and businesses alike. When questioned in April about how quickly progress is ne…”

“As we know, there has been a letter recently between the shadow Secretary of State for Energy, Claire Coutinho, and your new chair, Nigel Topping—who we have had before this Committee before he was appointed as well—where it has been alleged that the independent advice by the committee on climate change is misleading i…”

“The hon. Member makes a really important point. Delaying their settled status would leave many of these people unprotected when travelling abroad and raise the stakes in terms of their own and their families’ security. Many families are already financially stretched and, as we have heard, that is often exacerbated by t…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Sir Jeremy. I congratulate the hon. Member for South Norfolk (Ben Goldsborough) and all who have successfully brought this petition forward. I rise today, as many others have, in support of the petition calling for Hong Kong British national overseas visa holders to retai…”

“Would you be supportive of the recommendations that the Committee was considering from the previous panel that the Environment Agency should be doing more of that monitoring?”

“Well, there is an answer.”

“Is that a no to my question?”