Speeches by Crichton.
Every Hansard contribution by Torcuil Crichton this parliament, most recent first. Back to the MP page for the headline figures and analysed positions.
Showing 381–400 of 1,095 contributions · most-recent first
| Date | Debate & contribution | Words |
|---|---|---|
| 22 Oct 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 394) “Matt, do you have a role here? Does NESO have a role in helping or ascertaining what the community benefits should be for offshore projects?” | 25 |
| 22 Oct 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 394) “I did not give you a chance to answer that £5,000 per megawatt per year question. That was said over a decade ago. It is not really transformative, is it?” | 30 |
| 22 Oct 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 394) “Yes, when I talk about community, I do not want a forest path. I want to change people’s health outcomes and where they go to university. I want to change their lives with renewable energy, not just give them forest paths.” | 41 |
| 22 Oct 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 394) “Would mandatory community benefit or community share affect the viability of the developments?” | 13 |
| 22 Oct 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 394) “Yes. There is a difference between community benefit and community share, or community ownership, and you have operated that model onshore. Could you operate that model of municipalities or communities buying in offshore as well?” | 35 |
| 22 Oct 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 394) “Thanks, all, for coming in. Finley, if we can carry on about community benefit, and offshore and onshore, there is a huge difference, of course, between a wind farm in Skye and one in the North sea, particularly in defining which community benefits. On our Atlantic coast, we have Spiorad na Mara, which has already agre…” | 136 |
| 22 Oct 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 394) “GB Energy has its community energy in a box idea. Mark, if I understand your evidence correctly, if the Minister tells NESO to tell Ofgem to tell you to connect a community energy company instead of EDF, that is what you would do.” | 43 |
| 22 Oct 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 394) “Even if that was at your expense, Finley, would you support it?” | 12 |
| 22 Oct 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 394) “The Minister would have to tell you whether he or she wants community energy prioritised.” | 15 |
| 22 Oct 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 394) “Matt, what would your advice be to Ministers when it comes to prioritising connections?” | 14 |
| 22 Oct 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 394) “Ofgem are agnostic. I come from a part of the world where you cannot be agnostic. You have to be a disciple for renewable energy. What would it take to make Ofgem a disciple for renewable energy? As Finley said, it is a really competitive space.” | 46 |
| 22 Oct 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 394) “Who sets that—Ofgem or NESO?” | 5 |
| 22 Oct 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 394) “Thank you all for coming in. Everyone nodded along and said that community energy was a great idea. Community energy companies have terrible, hellish problems getting on to the grid. Mark, you said that SSEN thought that communities had a big role to play, yet SSEN fobbed them off with active network management agreeme…” | 57 |
| 22 Oct 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 394) “It is community right to buy.” | 6 |
| 22 Oct 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 394) “This is just a quick question on how to mandate community powers. Is it the 2015 Act? Is it something else, Alex? What do we need to tell Ministers to do?” | 31 |
| 22 Oct 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 394) “That is as well as hard cash. A lot of that depends on goodwill, of course, and commercial companies agreeing and negotiating with communities. I wondered what you think about some kind of element of compulsion or guidance from the Government. There is a thing called the 2015 Infrastructure Act, which was designed for …” | 88 |
| 22 Oct 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 394) “How should we go about that?” | 6 |
| 22 Oct 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 394) “Alex, you mentioned shared ownership there as an option, which I find very exciting. I want you to expand on that. Personally, I think that there should be shared ownership of everything. If you have 10 pylons in front of your house, you feel that you should own two of them at least, so that you have that sense of belo…” | 117 |
| 22 Oct 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 394) “Mairi, building on that, communities end up at the end of the queue. They end up with these active network managements. They can get on to the grid when the big guys are not on the grid, which means they cannot get any money to build their infrastructure. What one thing, two things or 10 things could a Government do to…” | 75 |
| 22 Oct 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 394) “Is part of that answer GB Energy?” | 7 |