Speeches by Hobhouse.

“You have already anticipated my last question. Do you think that there is the right balance between local environmental impacts and the national need for clean power? From what you are saying, although not all the data has been gathered and all environmental impacts fully understood, you think the balance between the t…”

“We need to move on, but I was just possibly going to ask Shaun to contradict that—I don’t know, what is your view?”

“We have already gone into some of the environmental concerns. Shaun, if I hear you correctly, the view of the RSPB on a barrage is “absolutely not”. For lagoons, it is “maybe”, but you still have concerns. Chair, we can leave that question because it has already been answered. I would like to understand the concerns th…”

“We have already gone into some of the environmental concerns. Shaun, if I hear you correctly, the view of the RSPB on a barrage is “absolutely not”. For lagoons, it is “maybe”, but you still have concerns. Chair, we can leave that question because it has already been answered. I would like to understand the concerns th…”

“Yes, but the gaps need to be filled in. I will ask Dr Angeloudis first and then Shaun can come in as well.”

“Sarah, when you say there is already quite a lot of data, what data already exists?”

“You have already anticipated my last question. Do you think that there is the right balance between local environmental impacts and the national need for clean power? From what you are saying, although not all the data has been gathered and all environmental impacts fully understood, you think the balance between the t…”

“We need to move on, but I was just possibly going to ask Shaun to contradict that—I don’t know, what is your view?”

“Could you be very precise about the data? What are we looking at? What is the missing data? Some data already exists. What is the missing data? What is the RSPB concerned about, Shaun?”

“The whole point about doing it consequently is, first, to find out whether the impact is too high, which would mean we would not go ahead with the project. If you run it parallel, there is almost an assumption that the project is going ahead. You are collecting the data at the same time, but, on the whole, the decision…”

“The whole point about doing it consequently is, first, to find out whether the impact is too high, which would mean we would not go ahead with the project. If you run it parallel, there is almost an assumption that the project is going ahead. You are collecting the data at the same time, but, on the whole, the decision…”

“My constituents repeatedly raise with me the lack of affordable childcare as a key factor driving the gender pay gap. To give families real choice in those crucial early months, will the Government consider increasing paternity pay to 90% of earnings, with a cap for higher earners?”

“On a recent visit to the breast unit of the Royal United hospital in Bath, specialists told me about a red flag system that could help to speed up care. If someone has a red flag symptom, such as a lump or a bleeding nipple, the triage team can book them straight into the breast clinic, rather than waiting to see a GP.…”

“Indeed. We have already heard this today, but we must have a mandatory code of conduct. I have one constituent who was hit with a £100 fine by a private company, despite having spent the entire time parked in the business that owns the car park. When she went to the Independent Appeals Service—as some people dare to do…”

“Parking regulations are not about where we leave our cars, but about how we shape our communities, support our local economies and respond to the climate crisis. When done well, they should enhance our communities, not stifle them. They should be not a revenue source, but a planning tool to balance environmental priori…”

“I am trying to understand how I should think about it. They are given the heat pumps and are told, “Install it in your house”?”

“Okay, in their own home—sorry. Understood.”

“But should they not then also write a write-up of what went wrong—a script for people to avoid the mistakes they have made? Should that not be part of it?”

“This section is a little bit about required skills levels and widening participation. The Committee has already sort of established in a previous session that, ultimately, raising standards is not really the issue around recruitment. Would you agree? There are other reasons why recruitment in the sector can be tricky, …”

“Yes, for the green construction future.”