Speeches by Wilson.

“I draw attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. Hezbollah has made south Lebanon into an armed camp and a massive arms dump in which it stores rockets and drones that have been used to attack Israeli towns and cities, kill civilians, cause billions of pounds worth of damage, and displace a…”

“Northern Ireland has skills, technology and infrastructure to contribute to the defence industry across the United Kingdom, but the Sinn Féin Economy Minister does not want defence jobs. Will the Minister assure us that the attitude of Sinn Féin will not be a deterrent to those vital jobs coming to Northern Ireland?”

“Our sympathies go out to the family, who must have been horrified by what they saw on the police footage. How have we reached a stage in this country where, when the police go to an incident, they arrest a dying man because they are afraid of being accused of racism by his murderer? This is affecting the police right a…”

“In an earlier answer, the Minister for Energy mentioned the money being spent on carbon capture, but has he considered the impact of his net zero policies on carbon release? Last week, I visited a site in the Sperrins where 250,000 metric tonnes of peat are to be stripped from the hillside in order to put in the infras…”

“In an earlier answer, the Minister for Energy mentioned the money being spent on carbon capture, but has he considered the impact of his net zero policies on carbon release? Last week, I visited a site in the Sperrins where 250,000 metric tonnes of peat are to be stripped from the hillside in order to put in the infras…”

“Our sympathies go out to the family, who must have been horrified by what they saw on the police footage. How have we reached a stage in this country where, when the police go to an incident, they arrest a dying man because they are afraid of being accused of racism by his murderer? This is affecting the police right a…”

“How flexible are local authorities? We heard that there can be spikes of air pollution, on construction sites, for example. I look at some of the large construction sites here in London, and this is not for a year or a couple of years; it can be a decade. How flexible are local authorities? You may have reached and tic…”

“No matter how the Minister tries to confuse the issue by talking about the situation up until now and the new arrangements, which are meant to tighten up sanctions today, the fact remains that we are now granting permits for Russian oil to come into the United Kingdom. He may justify that, as he has done on a number of…”

“We have heard from both yourselves and the previous witnesses that the collection of data is important when it comes to judging what is happening to air quality. How are air quality monitors managed and maintained by local authorities?”

“All of you have pointed out that, first of all, the equipment is expensive, and then the use of the data from the equipment is expensive and sometimes needs outside expertise. In earlier evidence today, we heard that one of the problems with using limit values is that, once you have reached those limit values, the view…”

“If you move away from limit values to a wider definition—you have mentioned health, for example—would you not finish up with different requirements for different areas? For example, a lot of elderly people or a lot of children might live in an area, or maybe there is a school that later disappears because it moves some…”

“Any of you.”

“General, I think you probably answered this question in your first answer to the Chair, but do you think that this assessment represents a fundamental shift in the Government’s view of this issue? Or is it simply a reflection of what the Government have always thought about the importance of nature and what we need to …”

“The assessment does make it quite clear that the resilience of human systems to ecosystem degradation is moderately uncertain, and that the wider geopolitical context is highly uncertain. Even with the predictions that are made about things that will impact on our security and everything else, according to the analytic…”

“The Chair asked an important question earlier about why this report had not received more public attention and concern. The author of “The Population Bomb” made a prediction very similar to this in the 1960s, in which he talked about ecological degradation, resource over-exploitation and over-population, and made equal…”

“That brings me to my last question, which another member of the panel may wish to answer. Some—in fact, most—of the degradation is outside the control of the United Kingdom Government, whether it is the cutting down of the rainforests in the Amazon, or the degradation in central Africa, where huge areas are being cut d…”

“Let me say on behalf of my party that we condemn the bombing at the weekend and we thank the police for their actions, which ensured that there were not the casualties that we would otherwise be lamenting here today. It is significant that the bomb was set off at the same time as Sinn Féin was holding its party confere…”

“Would the hon. Member accept that when the process exonerates the soldiers and the veterans at the end, the whole point of the process and taking them to the court in the first place is to give the daily headlines in the paper to allow Sinn Féin and the IRA to rewrite the history of the troubles?”

“You have dealt with some of the points I wanted to make but I may probe them a bit more. First of all, Professor Sutton, the current target to reduce ammonia emissions by 2030 is 16%. Given what you have said about the impact of ammonia on habitats and so on, do you think that target is sufficient?”

“First of all, decisions have to be made now, for example, with planning applications, and the capital restructuring that is required sometimes does require new sheds to be built or whatever. But if you are saying that we have to reduce ammonia emissions, that the targets we have set are not high enough and that they ar…”