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Speeches by Crichton.

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12 Nov 2025Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 394)

Yes, good connections are a nightmare—and that is another chapter—but planning can be a nightmare as well. Would it not be easier to get community energy off the ground and off the runway if community ownership were a material consideration in planning? You have more experience than anyone on that, Emily.

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12 Nov 2025Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 394)

From all the answers, I get the idea that GB Energy is not taking the lessons from Lewes and replicating them in Manchester, so that Manchester does not have to reinvent the wheel again.

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12 Nov 2025Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 394)

Thank you all for coming in. I will get into the weeds of planning as well. First, to pick up on what Mike was asking about this network of sharing and that skills gap, I want to ask you all what your experience of GB Energy is, because the Government set up GB Energy. There is a huge commitment to community energy in

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12 Nov 2025Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 394)

For example, my local authority is planning to take a 20% stake in commercial wind farms that it would be the planning authority over. There is a loop there.

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12 Nov 2025Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 394)

Robbie, what if that community energy project was the municipality that is dealing with the planning?

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12 Nov 2025Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 394)

To get to where we want to get—getting community energy as a material consideration in planning—should things like a wholly owned community energy scheme be ahead of one that is only 4% or one that is 20%?

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12 Nov 2025Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 394)

Do we need different levels?

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12 Nov 2025Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 394)

Very good. That is one definition of community energy. Then you have your community energy group, which is only 4%. I would not define that as community led—

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11 Nov 2025 Remembrance Day: Armed Forces

Madam Deputy Speaker, it was a pleasure to join you today at the remembrance service in Westminster Hall, and it was an honour to attend services in Tarbert, Harris in my constituency and at the Lewis war memorial in Stornoway at the weekend. The years are passing, but the numbers attending are not diminishing, which i

defenceculture-community
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11 Nov 2025Support for Dyslexic Pupils

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Butler. I pay tribute to the hon. Member for Yeovil (Adam Dance) and my hon. Friend the Member for Broxtowe (Juliet Campbell) for leading on this very important issue. In the short time that I have, I want to give a perspective from Scotland, where the Government state

education
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30 Oct 2025Trading Relationships

I welcome the Secretary of State to his place and invite him to Benbecula Distillery in my place. It is a dramatic lighthouse distillery, and a great addition to the landscape. It recently secured £1.5 million from the British Business Bank’s investment fund. Benbecula’s distillery is one of a chain of small distilleri

economy-jobsdefence
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30 Oct 2025Trading Relationships

12. What steps his Department is taking to improve the UK's trading relationships with other countries.

economy-jobsdefence
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29 Oct 2025Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1206)

I seek a simple clarification, because I did not know what it was, so I assume the public will not either. Can somebody explain what CBAM is?

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29 Oct 2025Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1206)

Benj, they must transition to survive, and you have transitioned.

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29 Oct 2025Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1206)

Katy, I think your final words are Jackdaw and Rosebank, are they not?

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29 Oct 2025Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1206)

I guess you did not just wake up one morning and decide to do it. How difficult is it to transition from fuel, carbon and refineries to—

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29 Oct 2025Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1206)

Katy, what is your elevator pitch to the UK Government?

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29 Oct 2025Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1206)

We have defined the problem. Can you give me the answers in a few short sentences? How do we make this transition for the workforce and the industry into renewables?

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29 Oct 2025Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1206)

Does that work, or is it just a slogan?

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29 Oct 2025Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1206)

One more question to Harriet. It is not just the workers who have been left behind. Trade unions have been left behind. The sector has been left behind here. To get that just transition, if we want to get that just transition, what do the UK Government have to do for workers? No one has mentioned it yet but we have thi

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