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Speeches by Hobhouse.

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27 Apr 2026Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 735)

Is there a case for a UK civil nuclear test reactor, so testing those, or is the cost of a test reactor outweighing the benefits?

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27 Apr 2026Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 735)

GBE-N says that 34 gigawatts by 2050—we have already been through that—is achievable. You have explained earlier what that means. Its mandate ends at two FIDs by 2029. Are you content that GBE–N has run the SMR competition competently? If so, should its mandate be expanded?

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27 Apr 2026Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 735)

Thank you for coming to the Committee. Given the rising demand for generic design assessment and the pressure this is placing on regulators, do regulators require additional support or a clearer national roadmap to prioritise resources?

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27 Apr 2026Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 735)

I think we all appreciate that quite a lot of this is just progress as it happens and some of it is very new. Given that only one completed GDA has led to construction, how should success be measured, particularly in terms of value for money? How would you measure it?

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27 Apr 2026Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 735)

In terms of duplication, should the UK not rely more on internationally approved reactor designs? We have already heard that we should not go through the same thing again and again nationally. What about looking at international approvals?

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22 Apr 2026Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 735)

I have a quick question because you keep repeating “low probability”. What do you call low probability? I am sorry that I was quite late, but you have been repeating that you are confident that a low probability is the right assessment.

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22 Apr 2026Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 735)

I have a quick question because you keep repeating “low probability”. What do you call low probability? I am sorry that I was quite late, but you have been repeating that you are confident that a low probability is the right assessment.

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25 Mar 2026Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1804)

I have just been to the PPA and I know that Nick Thomas-Symonds is working with your European counterpart on talking through the linkages of the ETS, which affects CBAM. I do not recognise the 2028 date. I understand that they even met today, so it is just to say that maybe there is something coming forward from the Go

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25 Mar 2026Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1804)

I have just been to the PPA and I know that Nick Thomas-Symonds is working with your European counterpart on talking through the linkages of the ETS, which affects CBAM. I do not recognise the 2028 date. I understand that they even met today, so it is just to say that maybe there is something coming forward from the Go

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25 Mar 2026Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1804)

I have just been to the PPA and I know that Nick Thomas-Symonds is working with your European counterpart on talking through the linkages of the ETS, which affects CBAM. I do not recognise the 2028 date. I understand that they even met today, so it is just to say that maybe there is something coming forward from the Go

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24 Mar 2026 Endometriosis Services

It is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Mr Dowd. I congratulate the hon. Member for Ipswich (Jack Abbott) on bringing this important debate to this Chamber, and I thank all the women who have campaigned on this issue, especially those in the Public Gallery today, for their tireless work to make us all aware of

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24 Mar 2026 Endometriosis Services

Does my hon. Friend agree that for a lot of these conditions it is vital to have more research? For example, there could be a genetic link that is not explained yet, and it would make it so much easier for daughters of women who had endometriosis to get much faster treatment and diagnosis. Research is a vital part of t

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23 Mar 2026Non-consensual Filming: Legal Frameworks

Secretly filmed videos of women on nights out have been viewed more than 3 billion times over the last three years, and the videos are often accompanied by vile, degrading comments. These videos have real victims, but they sit in a legal grey area between voyeurism and harassment, so there is very little that the polic

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23 Mar 2026Non-consensual Filming: Legal Frameworks

9. What assessment she has made of the adequacy of existing legal frameworks in relation to the non-consensual filming of women in public.

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19 Mar 2026 Community Mental Health Services

So many mental health problems could be cared for much better in the community. As the chair of the eating disorders all-party parliamentary group, I know that some years ago we had an inquiry called “There’s No Place Like Home”. That was supported by Beat, which put out a report about the critical gap in provision, as

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19 Mar 2026Business of the House

At a time of heightened global tension, we must be aware of how important it is that we look after our current and ex-service personnel. I have a constituent who served in the Army and later in the Ministry of Defence for 50 years. He survived stage 4 cancer and his illness is now forcing him to retire. Capita, which a

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19 Mar 2026 Online Harms

I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire (Ian Sollom) on securing this debate, and I thank the Backbench Business Committee for granting it. There is no shortage of online harms demanding our attention. I have spoken before about children buying illegal drugs that are openly advertis

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19 Mar 2026 Online Harms

The hon. Lady is making a very powerful speech about how young people, whose brains are still being formed, are being bombarded with online content. May I just let her know that my hon. Friend is actually the hon. Member for St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire (Ian Sollom)? When she mentions him again, she might correct th

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19 Mar 2026Climate Change

Does the hon. Lady not recognise that all that might make it cheaper for the oil and gas industry, but it will not make it cheaper for our constituents? Their bills will be the same wherever the gas is extracted; it is the oil and gas industry that might profit from it being extracted elsewhere.

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19 Mar 2026 Online Harms

Can I quickly take the hon. Gentleman back to when he said he was proud of the action his Labour Government have taken? For a long time while they were in opposition, his colleagues advocated making misogyny a hate crime. I assume it was in their manifesto, but I am not quite clear about that. He mentions misogyny as o

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