Speeches by Wilson.

“When we cut through the waffle of this statement and the Secretary of State’s answers this afternoon, one fact remains: soldiers who served in Northern Ireland who have already had cases tried will be able to be dragged back into the courts and will be subject to interrogation there. The Secretary of State talked about…”

“The Government have not had a great record in the courts recently. Kneecap’s case was thrown out because the paperwork was not correct, and now we have the spy case not proceeding because evidence was not provided. The fact of the matter is that China now controls many of our supply chains, holds a lot of our national …”

“First, I congratulate the Secretary of State on the forthrightness and clarity of the message she has sent from this House today. People in Northern Ireland appreciate the deep hurt experienced by those who went to worship and found that they were victims of terrorism. We have had people machine-gunned while praying, p…”

“In terms of resilience and adaptation, would you see the board as complementing the contact that you have with individual Departments on what it is achieving? Are you aware of that?”

“When it comes to liaising with Departments that are most related to the work you are doing, how successful has that liaison been and how co-operative have Departments been?”

“Just one follow-up on Martin’s question: sometimes the definition of adaptation is very vague, but what do you see as the priorities that the Government should be setting for adaptations? Is far too much priority given to mitigation and not enough attention to adaptation?”

“You have answered a number of the questions I had about other Government Departments and your relationship with the Climate Resilience Board. Have you actually met with it yet?”

“I noted that you point out that overall this mix should result in lower electricity prices by 2050, compared to what we have at present. But, of course, we are concerned and the public are concerned about what happens to energy prices this year and next year. The fact is they have been going up, and while gas may have …”

“Is the best way of getting that information to attend the board meetings or get reports from the board meetings?”

“One striking example that came out of the report was that when it came to climate resilience in the planning system, you were finding it difficult, if not impossible, to get the data on the number of houses that were being built in areas where there is risk of flooding. However, the number of planning applications that…”

“Can I just go back to the first answer you gave to the Chairman when you talked about the difference between the 2024 report and 2025 and the reduction in carbon emissions? In that analysis, have you taken into consideration the reduction in carbon emissions due to offshoring of many of our energy-intensive industries,…”

“What degree of those consumption reductions have been due to the fact that we are not consuming a lot of energy through steel, aluminium, and some of the other heavy consumers that have now disappeared?”

“What do you need to know from the Climate Resilience Board? Is it simply a case of attending their meetings and hearing what is being discussed, or is there particular information that you would require from the board?”

“Is that really the distinction, then? If they are a long chemical chain, they are regarded as low concern?”

“This is to Mr Ede and again to Ms Metzger. There has been a distinction made between products of low concern and products that there should be concerns about. What is the evidence for fluoropolymers, for example, that they should be regarded as products of low concern?”

“If there were to be additional safeguards or regulations, they should fall on the companies that buy the products from you and then use them, rather than it being your responsibility?”

“From your experience, Professor Orsini and Mr Sanders, can you think of countries that do monitoring, detection or remediation differently or better than we do it here? What are the characteristics of what they do as opposed to what we do?”

“Dr Joel, would you comment on some of the points that were made and how practical they are? For example, when you produce PFAS and then it is used further downstream, what responsibility should you have for ensuring that it does not cause a problem in the environment?”

“You have anticipated my last question. What lessons can be learned from other countries in terms of monitoring, detecting and then finding ways of getting remediation where there has been contamination?”

“The first question I want to put to Mr Sanders and Professor Orsini. In the last evidence session, we heard that contamination can occur in many different situations: water, land, landfill sites and so on. What are the challenges that you face in identifying the contamination and source of contamination in those comple…”