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Adjournment debate on Thursday, 29 October 2009, in the House of Commons, led by Paddy Tipping. The answering member was David Kidney.

Oil and Gas

Westminster Hall debate on a motion for the adjournment on the first report from the Energy and Climate Change Committee, on UK Offshore Oil and Gas, HC 341-I, and the Government response, HC 1010. [Relevant documents: First Report from the Energy and Climate Change Committee, on UK Offshore Oil and Gas, HC 341-I, and the Government response, HC 1010.]

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
498 c143-78WH 
Session
2008-09
Department
Department of Energy and Climate Change
Chamber / Committee
Westminster Hall
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Proceeding contributions
Speaker | 498 c145WH (Link to this contribution) Order. Just for accuracy, in the Chair, I have no political party: I am entirely unbiased, and I lis...
Paddy Tipping | 498 c145-8WH (Link to this contribution) I know that to be the case, Sir Nicholas. I have heard you make comments, in the Chair and elsewhere...
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Speaker | 498 c148WH (Link to this contribution) Order. I intend to call the Minister last, and he will be preceded by Her Majesty's Opposition spoke...
Simon Hughes | 498 c148WH (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Sir Nicholas. Following that indication, will you reconsider and give permissio...
David Kidney | 498 c148-50WH (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Sherwood (Paddy Tipping), who is so ably now ch...
Speaker | 498 c148WH (Link to this contribution) I do not believe that that suggestion has ever been made to me during all the years that I have been...
David Kidney | 498 c151WH (Link to this contribution) There certainly is work to be done in the area that the hon. Gentleman mentions. On the specific poi...
Simon Hughes | 498 c150WH (Link to this contribution) I am not an expert on this issue; my hon. Friend the Member for Orkney and Shetland (Mr. Carmichael)...
David Kidney | 498 c150WH (Link to this contribution) I shall have to come back to the hon. Gentleman in a moment with the figure, but I know the point th...
Robert Smith | 498 c150WH (Link to this contribution) How many of those wells were exploration wells?
Mike Weir | 498 c151WH (Link to this contribution) Before the Minister moves on from discussing the area west of Shetland, I want to point out that one...
David Kidney | 498 c151-2WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman raises two issues. One is the viability of constructing new infrastructure, based...
Robert Smith | 498 c157-9WH (Link to this contribution) That is a valuable point. The pace of progress that we are making towards carbon capture and storage...
Mike Weir | 498 c159-61WH (Link to this contribution) I agree about the importance of the oil and gas industry to the economy, particularly in the north-e...
Robert Smith | 498 c162WH (Link to this contribution) What is causing consternation is that people are still being quoted the same price even in the downt...
Mike Weir | 498 c162-4WH (Link to this contribution) That is a very good point. From the evidence, it seems that much of the difficulty stemmed from hurr...
Simon Hughes | 498 c164-9WH (Link to this contribution) Like other colleagues, I welcome this significant report. It is the first report from the Committee ...
Charles Hendry | 498 c169-70WH (Link to this contribution) May I begin by referring on the record to the visits and conferences that are in the Register of Mem...
Simon Hughes | 498 c170WH (Link to this contribution) Russia has always sought bilateral arrangements with individual European countries such as Italy and...
Charles Hendry | 498 c171-2WH (Link to this contribution) It is important that energy policy remains as a retained power that is set at a nation state level. ...
Simon Hughes | 498 c172-3WH (Link to this contribution) I endorse that by saying that there are new opportunities in parts of the world that are traditional...
Charles Hendry | 498 c173WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. There is astonishment in some of these countries that, when ...
Charles Hendry | 498 c174WH (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to intervene so early in the Minister's speech having just had the opportunity to speak, ...
David Kidney | 498 c174WH (Link to this contribution) I disagree with one part of the hon. Gentleman's analysis: the market was not working perfectly, bec...
David Kidney | 498 c174WH (Link to this contribution) With the leave of the House, I should like briefly to respond to the points made by hon. Members, se...
David Kidney | 498 c175WH (Link to this contribution) I have not yet finished my list, but I shall give way.
Robert Smith | 498 c174WH (Link to this contribution) On our indigenous gas supply, it is important for the Minister to recognise that, as the North sea c...
David Kidney | 498 c174-5WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman, and I accept that point. Most Members have mentioned carbon ca...
Paddy Tipping | 498 c175WH (Link to this contribution) What the Minister says is exactly right, but he must take the industry and the sector with him, whet...
David Kidney | 498 c175-6WH (Link to this contribution) I am in the middle of a list of the things that we are doing to ensure that we remain at the forefro...
David Kidney | 498 c176-8WH (Link to this contribution) It is coming, but it has not arrived. I take the hon. Gentleman's point about sharing it robustly. ...
Simon Hughes | 498 c176WH (Link to this contribution) Before the Minister leaves that subject, let me ask him about his Department's response to the Selec...
Mike Weir | 498 c157WH (Link to this contribution) Is it not also true that if we are to have a future in carbon capture and storage it is vital that e...
Robert Smith | 498 c155-7WH (Link to this contribution) Perhaps as a member of the Procedure Committee, I should write to myself to see how today's procedur...
Speaker | 498 c155WH (Link to this contribution) I am hoping, subject to time, that we shall be able, with Members' permission, to call the Minister ...
David Kidney | 498 c154-5WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman should spit it out: the Government's action was a success, and if we tell the Tre...
Simon Hughes | 498 c154WH (Link to this contribution) This is just a reflection really. When, as a result of pressure, the Government varied the incentive...
David Kidney | 498 c153WH (Link to this contribution) Let me make it clear to the hon. Gentleman that we are not proposing further legislation at this poi...
Mike Weir | 498 c152-3WH (Link to this contribution) I am not entirely clear about how we have moved on. In the evidence before us, the small operators a...
David Kidney | 498 c152WH (Link to this contribution) Obviously, I did not write that letter, because I was not a Minister in January—the hon. Gentleman w...
Robert Smith | 498 c152WH (Link to this contribution) Although the long-stop exists for companies to challenge something through that formal process, that...
Simon Hughes | 498 c144WH (Link to this contribution) I appreciate that this debate is about UK offshore oil and gas, but the hon. Gentleman rightly puts ...
Paddy Tipping | 498 c143-4WH (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to speak about the first report of the Energy and Climate Change Committee. As the fi...
Charles Hendry | 498 c145WH (Link to this contribution) The Minister will be long gone by then.
Paddy Tipping | 498 c144WH (Link to this contribution) Those of us who believe in the benefits of the European Union believe that that issue comes high up ...
Paddy Tipping | 498 c145WH (Link to this contribution) Yes, he would be in the firing line. He is coping well with his new tasks, but let me bring this poi...
Speaker | 498 c178WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate all Members who have participated in this important debate on their positive and info...
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Exports Energy Energy supply Imports Exploration Oil Natural gas Prices Offshore industry Scotland North Sea oil and gas
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