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Queen's speech debate on Thursday, 27 May 2010, in the House of Commons, led by Chris Huhne. The answering member was Ed Miliband.

Energy and Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Queen's speech debate (third day) on energy and environment, food and rural affairs.

Secondary information

Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
510 c304-408 
Session
2010-12
Department
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Department of Energy and Climate Change
Procedure
Addresses to the Crown
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Baroness Coffey | 510 c338-40 (Link to this contribution) Thank you for allowing me to make my maiden speech in this debate on the Gracious Speech, Mr Speaker...
Henry Smith | 510 c343-5 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful indeed to you, Mr. Speaker, for calling me to speak on the Gracious Speech. May I...
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Damian Collins | 510 c355-7 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for North Antrim (Ian Paisley). It seems that his c...
Baroness Bray of Coln | 510 c360-2 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to address the House for the first time ...
Tom Greatrex | 510 c357-60 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to make my maiden speech today in this debate, as the Labour and C...
Nick de Bois | 510 c394-6 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to make my maiden speech in this important debate. I congratulate ...
Chris Heaton-Harris | 510 c390-4 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to you, Mr. Speaker, for allowing me to catch your eye in this important debate and en...
Peter Aldous | 510 c377-9 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to make my maiden speech. I will start ...
Neil Parish | 510 c372-5 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to be called to make my maiden speech during this debate. I congratulate the ...
Chris Evans | 510 c340-3 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Suffolk Coastal (Dr Coffey) on her excellent maiden speech. Her l...
Caroline Lucas | 510 c369-72 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to you for calling me to speak today, Mr Deputy Speaker. As I am sure you know, the en...
Ian Jnr Paisley | 510 c352-5 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Speaker, for calling me to make my maiden speech. I also thank the hon. Member for Be...
Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park | 510 c383-5 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for this opportunity to speak. I must admit that I am surprised to be here, not just t...
John Glen | 510 c388-90 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Speaker, for calling me to speak for the first time in the House today. It is a great...
Stephen Mosley | 510 c396-9 (Link to this contribution) May I be the first to congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Enfield North (Nick de Bois) on his...
Speaker | 510 c325 (Link to this contribution) Order. At this point in the proceedings, I must remind hon. Members that Mr Speaker has imposed a li...
Caroline Spelman | 510 c379 (Link to this contribution) For clarification, the coalition programme makes the situation perfectly clear, stating:""We will in...
Caroline Spelman | 510 c381 (Link to this contribution) I have already intervened on this subject, but let me repeat what I said to the hon. Member for Shef...
Albert Owen | 510 c380 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that, but it is not what the right hon. Lady's party said in opposition. It pushed...
Nia Griffith | 510 c386-8 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Richmond Park (Zac Goldsmith) on an excellent maiden speech on a ...
Albert Owen | 510 c381 (Link to this contribution) That reply is helpful, especially the first part, which explained that the IPC will still do its wor...
Albert Owen | 510 c381-2 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Lady, but with the greatest respect, we have carefully worked on thi...
John Baron | 510 c366-7 (Link to this contribution) I thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, and welcome you to your post, if only for a short period. I congratu...
Albert Owen | 510 c379 (Link to this contribution) It is a privilege to follow the hon. Member for Waveney (Peter Aldous), who, like me, represents a "...
Geraint Davies | 510 c375-7 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the guided tour of Tiverton and Honiton that we have just heard from the hon. Memb...
John Baron | 510 c368-9 (Link to this contribution) It does, indeed, and I thank my right hon. Friend for that intervention. However, the Conservative G...
John Baron | 510 c367 (Link to this contribution) I trust that my right hon. Friend is about to put me right on that.
Caroline Spelman | 510 c367-8 (Link to this contribution) I might be able to help my hon. Friend on this matter. In the Communities and Local Government brief...
Hilary Benn | 510 c399-403 (Link to this contribution) I begin by congratulating the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and by war...
Caroline Spelman | 510 c406 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman does not mind—I have spent quite some time on the maiden speeches and talked w...
Clive Betts | 510 c406 (Link to this contribution) Quite rightly, the right hon. Lady is saying that the Government's priority is not to deal with the ...
Caroline Spelman | 510 c403-6 (Link to this contribution) First, I thank the right hon. Member for Leeds Central (Hilary Benn) for his kind congratulations, a...
Caroline Spelman | 510 c406-8 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman was in the House when we spent 700 hours of legislative time dealing with the Fox...
Jamie Reed | 510 c347-8 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is entirely right. I hope that he and I can lend our expertise to the new Government ...
Jamie Reed | 510 c345-7 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Islwyn (Chris Evans) and the hon. Member fo...
Clive Betts | 510 c334-6 (Link to this contribution) I would like to comment on issues of particular importance to my constituency, now named Sheffield S...
Lord Bruce of Bennachie | 510 c333-4 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend acknowledges that point. Unfortunately, had they been properly addressed, we might h...
Clive Betts | 510 c336-8 (Link to this contribution) That seems slightly different from the information that we were given before. I am not necessarily o...
Caroline Spelman | 510 c336 (Link to this contribution) On the Department for Communities and Local Government brief, I think that I can give the hon. Gentl...
David Anderson | 510 c364-5 (Link to this contribution) I appreciate that. I realise, from the work that the Minister and I did together on the Energy and C...
Charles Hendry | 510 c364 (Link to this contribution) I would be pleased to receive a delegation from the hon. Gentleman and others similarly concerned ab...
David Anderson | 510 c363-4 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Ealing Central and Acton (Angie Bray) on a very fine speech, and ...
Simon Hughes | 510 c351-2 (Link to this contribution) First, let me say that, in the context of the hon. Gentleman's beautiful island, I understand why he...
Albert Owen | 510 c351 (Link to this contribution) Although the hon. Gentleman and I hold diametrically opposed views on nuclear power, I respect the f...
Simon Hughes | 510 c348-51 (Link to this contribution) Mr. Speaker, congratulations on your re-election and thank you for giving me the privilege of speaki...
Mark Tami | 510 c314 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend mentioned that the Secretary of State would be putting wind turbines on his hou...
Ed Miliband | 510 c314 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the right hon. Gentleman on taking up his post as Secretary of State. He has had a di...
David Anderson | 510 c315 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend raises the issue of clean coal. We must also raise with the Government the immo...
Ed Miliband | 510 c314-5 (Link to this contribution) No doubt that will be the case. Let me say right at the outset that now we are in opposition, I int...
Ed Miliband | 510 c315-6 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raised this important issue at the end of the last Parliament. We hope to work with t...
Lord Redwood | 510 c316 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman tell the House why his Government failed to take the decisions or crea...
Ed Miliband | 510 c316 (Link to this contribution) I do not agree with that. The question for Britain is whether to meet our security of supply needs i...
Ed Miliband | 510 c316 (Link to this contribution) Oh, some help from the right hon. Lady. How kind of her.
Caroline Spelman | 510 c316 (Link to this contribution) Coming very recently from a Department for Communities and Local Government brief, I can help all Me...
Chris Huhne | 510 c311-2 (Link to this contribution) I am always pleased to hear questions from the hon. Gentleman, because he is a neighbour in Hampshir...
Lord Whitehead | 510 c311 (Link to this contribution) I, too, congratulate the Secretary of State on his elevation to his new post. He will be aware that ...
Chris Huhne | 510 c311 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my honourable colleague for that question. The coalition agreement states very clea...
Albert Owen | 510 c312-3 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Secretary of State for giving way for a second time. He was clear and detailed ...
Chris Huhne | 510 c313 (Link to this contribution) The coalition agreement is very clear. The hon. Gentleman will be aware that investment in particula...
Chris Huhne | 510 c312 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has stated precisely what the objective of this key centrepiece of the legislation wi...
Chris Huhne | 510 c313-4 (Link to this contribution) There are a number of issues, but I was excited, as I am sure the hon. Lady was, by the report on th...
Chris Huhne | 510 c313 (Link to this contribution) Let me make a little progress. The measures might also include a requirement for energy companies t...
Joan Walley | 510 c313 (Link to this contribution) It was remiss of me not to have congratulated the Secretary of State on the important role that he i...
Chris Huhne | 510 c309 (Link to this contribution) I wish to make a little more progress. We have to reduce our overall demand for energy by making a ...
Chris Huhne | 510 c309 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for his question. That is obviously an important interest ...
Malcolm Wicks | 510 c310 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. Is the Secretary of State factoring in new nuclear power when it comes to carbon emissions? ...
Chris Huhne | 510 c310 (Link to this contribution) If the right hon. Gentleman were to read the coalition Government agreement, he would recognise that...
Chris Huhne | 510 c310-1 (Link to this contribution) I should make a little progress, because answering one intervention and then moving straight into de...
John Baron | 510 c311 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State might be aware that in order to reduce domestic energy bills and fuel poverty...
Andrew Miller | 510 c309 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State explain to the House the new Government's policy on trading in nuclear e...
Malcolm Wicks | 510 c310 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Secretary of State on his appointment. I am not sure who he was looking at just t...
Emma Reynolds | 510 c307 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the right hon. Gentleman on his promotion. I worked in the European Parliament when h...
Lord Bruce of Bennachie | 510 c308 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend last week took time to visit the all-energy exhibition in Aberdeen. Will he ack...
Chris Huhne | 510 c308-9 (Link to this contribution) I fully agree with my right hon. Friend, who makes an extremely good point. I was very struck when t...
Clive Efford | 510 c308 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State explain to the House his policy on nuclear power and on nuclear energy m...
Chris Huhne | 510 c308 (Link to this contribution) I think the hon. Gentleman is unwise to assume that the policy of Government is different from the p...
Robert Flello | 510 c308 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Secretary of State on taking up his post. What message on gas imports, gas securi...
Chris Huhne | 510 c308 (Link to this contribution) The key to many of these issues will be long-term contracts ensuring security of supply, and I have ...
Chris Huhne | 510 c307 (Link to this contribution) I certainly agree about the importance of the EU in tackling environmental issues and the climate ch...
Chris Huhne | 510 c307 (Link to this contribution) I am aware that I have to be slightly limited in giving way, as Mr Speaker will be after me. I am ha...
Ed Miliband | 510 c323 (Link to this contribution) What a great choice! I give way to my hon. Friend the Member for Blaydon (Mr Anderson).
David Anderson | 510 c323 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that part of the industrial revolution in the north-east is driven a...
Ed Miliband | 510 c323 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend, and that speaks to the attitude, which I hope that the Secretary of Sta...
Albert Owen | 510 c323 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for the support that he gave my community and my constituency on new nu...
Albert Owen | 510 c323 (Link to this contribution) It is. Business speaks to me. The Secretary of State might be talking to one company, but he has not...
Ed Miliband | 510 c323 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes his point eloquently. The uncertainty and the scrapping of the IPC are dogma.
Geraint Davies | 510 c323 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that if we all accept that we would like a transition towards electr...
Ed Miliband | 510 c322 (Link to this contribution) So there we have it—the Greek defence. A person may vote Liberal Democrat, but along sails the Greek...
Rachel Reeves | 510 c322 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend confirm that Greece's debt is 110% of its gross domestic product? That is ...
Speaker | 510 c322 (Link to this contribution) Before the shadow Secretary of State replies, I remind new Members that the procedure is that you do...
Ed Miliband | 510 c322 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State is obviously feeling wounded.
Chris Huhne | 510 c322 (Link to this contribution) On a matter of fact, may I point out that while Governments sometimes have to refinance parts of the...
Ed Miliband | 510 c322 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend gives the House and the Secretary of State an economics lecture.
Ed Miliband | 510 c322-3 (Link to this contribution) The truth is, though, that since the Budget of my right hon. Friend the shadow Chancellor in March, ...
Ed Miliband | 510 c319-20 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I can, because we have learned the lessons of Britain's past on nuclear power, as well as inter...
Malcolm Wicks | 510 c320 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that, although the new Secretary of State seems to wish to adopt a l...
Ed Miliband | 510 c320 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend, who has a distinguished record on these matters, is right. We face a third pr...
Clive Betts | 510 c320-1 (Link to this contribution) I should like to raise the issue that my right hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield, Brightside and ...
Ed Miliband | 510 c319 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the hon. Lady to the House. I wish that the Labour party had won her seat, but she comes t...
Simon Hughes | 510 c319 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is part of the Labour party's conversion to nuclear power, and he knows tha...
Chris Huhne | 510 c321 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman will remember that during the election campaign, quite an important event h...
Ed Miliband | 510 c321 (Link to this contribution) Let me welcome you to the Chair, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and welcome you back to the House. I agree wit...
Chris Huhne | 510 c322 (Link to this contribution) Much as I admire the chutzpah with which the shadow Secretary of State approaches this leadership sp...
Chris Huhne | 510 c317 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman needs to distinguish between setting a Government target and delivering on ...
Ed Miliband | 510 c317 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is going to have to do better than that—it is just a load of old hot air. H...
Chris Huhne | 510 c316 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Ed Miliband | 510 c316-7 (Link to this contribution) In a moment. We said in our manifesto that every council should have a local target to help meet th...
Ed Miliband | 510 c316 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change will be very grateful for that h...
Caroline Lucas | 510 c318-9 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend says that the challenge of climate change is so great that we need nuclear powe...
Ed Miliband | 510 c317-8 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend eloquently makes his point. I am afraid that the truth is that the right hon. Gentlem...
Robert Flello | 510 c317 (Link to this contribution) Have I missed something here? Up and down the country, whenever I have seen protest flags and signs ...
Ed Miliband | 510 c317 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend anticipates a later section of my speech. He makes a very important point.
Jamie Reed | 510 c317 (Link to this contribution) Surely, it is worse than that. By starting again with the planning regulations, we are going to lose...
Lord Bruce of Bennachie | 510 c332-3 (Link to this contribution) I completely agree with my hon. Friend. I hope that the Secretary of State took away several points...
Simon Hughes | 510 c332 (Link to this contribution) The benefit for apprenticeships and jobs is also manifest. People who are training to work on offsho...
Lord Bruce of Bennachie | 510 c332 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a pertinent point. As I have said, we missed the boat 35 years ago, and we must...
Graham Stuart | 510 c332 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is, as ever, making a powerful speech. Not only do we have renewable energy and oil a...
Lord Bruce of Bennachie | 510 c330-2 (Link to this contribution) It is an honour and a privilege to speak under your presiding eyes, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and I congra...
Lord Whitehead | 510 c328-30 (Link to this contribution) Today's debate specifically relates to the coalition's proposals for energy and climate change as we...
Michael Fallon | 510 c325-8 (Link to this contribution) I want, first, to make a little progress, if I may. I welcome the Queen's Speech, because it tackle...
Jamie Reed | 510 c325 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Michael Fallon | 510 c325 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Doncaster North (Edward Miliband). I suspect th...
Ed Miliband | 510 c324 (Link to this contribution) Let me make one other point on fairness, and then I shall give way to my hon. Friend. I also urge t...
Robert Flello | 510 c324 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?
Ed Miliband | 510 c325 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point. Warm Front has done a lot, and I hope that the Secretary of...
Robert Flello | 510 c324-5 (Link to this contribution) On my right hon. Friend's last point, I must say that it is not only the big six energy companies th...
Nadhim Zahawi | 510 c324 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman delivers an eloquent speech, but would it not have much more credibility if...
Ed Miliband | 510 c324 (Link to this contribution) Let me move on to the third test, because I want to allow time for people to come in. On the third ...
Robert Flello | 510 c324 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?
Ed Miliband | 510 c324 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a very important point: the demand for electricity is likely to increase, not d...
Chris Huhne | 510 c305 (Link to this contribution) I agree that the committee has an extremely important role to play. However, the hon. Lady must be a...
Graham Stuart | 510 c305 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my right hon. Friend on his new post, in which I am sure he will serve with distincti...
Chris Huhne | 510 c305 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman knows, that legislation is not my departmental responsibility, but it did appe...
Joan Walley | 510 c305 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State has told us that there will be no environmental legislation as such, but give...
Chris Huhne | 510 c304 (Link to this contribution) It is a privilege to open this debate on the Gracious Speech and its plans on energy and the environ...
Albert Owen | 510 c304-5 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Secretary of State to his new post. During business questions, the Leader of the Hous...
Chris Huhne | 510 c306-7 (Link to this contribution) Biodiversity is absolutely crucial, particularly in those tropical areas where concentrations of bio...
Clive Betts | 510 c307 (Link to this contribution) I want to bring the Secretary of State back to the answer that he gave to my hon. Friend the Member ...
Chris Huhne | 510 c307 (Link to this contribution) Let me be absolutely clear to the hon. Gentleman: this is a matter for the Department for Transport ...
Chris Huhne | 510 c306 (Link to this contribution) If I may make a little progress first, I will happily give way again. It is because of the urgent n...
Rachel Reeves | 510 c306 (Link to this contribution) One thing that was mentioned in the Queen's Speech was high-speed rail. Will the right hon. Gentlema...
Chris Huhne | 510 c306 (Link to this contribution) Parties on both sides of the House were committed to high-speed rail and it is crucial that we make ...
David Tredinnick | 510 c306 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend recognise that 2010 is the United Nations year of biodiversity and the ver...
Chris Huhne | 510 c306 (Link to this contribution) I shall deal with that issue later, but I certainly believe that it is crucial for us to inject a re...
Speaker | 510 c382 (Link to this contribution) Order. On a procedural note, I should perhaps explain to all Members of the House that it is helpful...
Albert Owen | 510 c347 (Link to this contribution) Once again, my hon. Friend is showing great expertise. Would not one way of helping the NDA to obtai...
Chris Huhne | 510 c309-10 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will know that Governments always have a clear position on treaties, because they...
Speaker | 510 c310 (Link to this contribution) Order. May I just say to the right hon. Gentleman that I am not factoring in anything?
Caroline Spelman | 510 c381 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change is not here, but he answered that question. The...
Simon Hughes | 510 c312 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend knows that I warmly welcome him, with his fantastic commitment over many years ...
Lord Blunkett | 510 c309 (Link to this contribution) I would be grateful for a reassurance to the House, and the people of Sheffield, that the personal o...
Adrian Bailey | 510 c323 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that industry requires not only certainty of future energy supply bu...
Ed Miliband | 510 c324 (Link to this contribution) That is not true, because when we look at what we have achieved, in terms of the reduction in carbon...
Subjects
Conservation Climate change Biodiversity Environment Energy Energy supply Planning Natural gas Nuclear power Prices Standards Renewable energy Wind power Infrastructure Planning Commission
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