Ministerial statement on Tuesday, 23 April 2019, in the House of Commons, led by Claire O'Neill.

Climate Change Policy

Statement on the current climate change protests and on climate change policy.

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Type: Parliamentary proceeding
Reference: 658 cc670-691
Session: 2017-19
Department: Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Chamber / Committee: House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions: Claire O'Neill | 658 cc671-2 (Link to this contribution)
With permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to make a statement on the current climate change prote...; Barry Sheerman | 658 c672 (Link to this contribution)
Even a little Swedish girl can see it’s not true.; Claire O'Neill | 658 cc672-4 (Link to this contribution)
Well, again, I would be very happy to write to the hon. Gentleman with the data and copy in Ms Th...; Barry Gardiner | 658 cc673-5 (Link to this contribution)
Mr Speaker has graciously allowed both an urgent question and statement on climate change today. ...; Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 658 c675 (Link to this contribution)
Order. The hon. Gentleman has exceeded his time, but I will allow him to conclude rather than cut...; Barry Gardiner | 658 c675 (Link to this contribution)
That is very gracious of you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I will try not to exceed the time that the Mi...; Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 658 c676 (Link to this contribution)
Order. The hon. Gentleman misunderstands: the Minister has rather more time on a statement than t...; Barry Gardiner | 658 c676 (Link to this contribution)
Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker.
Earlier, the Minister spoke of the need to consider our in...; Claire O'Neill | 658 c676 (Link to this contribution)
I see many colleagues standing, but I thank the shadow Minister for his commitment and his suppor...; Lord Soames of Fletching | 658 c676 (Link to this contribution)
First, I congratulate my right hon. Friend on her outstanding record in her Department, on which ...; Claire O'Neill | 658 c676 (Link to this contribution)
I thank my right hon. Friend for his comments, and I would also like to pay tribute to my right h...; Deidre Brock | 658 c677 (Link to this contribution)
May I thank the Minister for advance sight of her statement? I have to say, however, that this st...; Claire O'Neill | 658 cc677-8 (Link to this contribution)
As I set up the green finance taskforce, along with my hon. Friend the Economic Secretary to the ...; Justine Greening | 658 c678 (Link to this contribution)
Obviously, the public sector’s contribution to this is equally important. What does the Minister ...; Claire O'Neill | 658 c678 (Link to this contribution)
I am disappointed that my right hon. Friend’s constituents are finding it difficult to engage, be...; Ed Miliband | 658 c678 (Link to this contribution)
I want to ask the Minister about the global context. We have had 1° of warming already. Paris set...; Claire O'Neill | 658 cc678-9 (Link to this contribution)
I am not surprised that the right hon. Gentleman makes such a profound point, given his experienc...; Caroline Spelman | 658 c679 (Link to this contribution)
I listened, “Blue Peter”-style, to the statement that the Minister made earlier, and I congratula...; Claire O'Neill | 658 c679 (Link to this contribution)
Some of the most important meetings I have been lucky enough to have in this role have been with ...; Albert Owen | 658 c679 (Link to this contribution)
I am proud to have supported the Climate Change Act 2008, and I pay tribute to the leadership of ...; Claire O'Neill | 658 c679 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman makes a valuable point. The built environment can encompass homes, buildings a...; Albert Owen | 658 c680 (Link to this contribution)
I know what it means.; Claire O'Neill | 658 c680 (Link to this contribution)
Good. I was coming on to say that one of the most effective ways to influence the built environme...; Lord Benyon | 658 c680 (Link to this contribution)
I am not entirely sure what is meant by declaring a climate emergency. As far as I am concerned, ...; Claire O'Neill | 658 c680 (Link to this contribution)
My right hon. Friend is absolutely right. I paid tribute to him earlier for making the point that...; Lord Coaker | 658 c680 (Link to this contribution)
When I met young people from Carlton le Willows Academy recently and received their petition, I c...; Claire O'Neill | 658 cc680-1 (Link to this contribution)
If there is any communication of complacency, I am horrified. I think that we have to focus calml...; Robert Courts | 658 c681 (Link to this contribution)
Will the Minister elaborate a little on the importance she attaches to growing the economy at the...; Claire O'Neill | 658 c681 (Link to this contribution)
Yes. One of the challenges that I have heard is that we need a fundamental reworking of the marke...; Mary Creagh | 658 c681 (Link to this contribution)
This statement is very timely, given that Marsden moor, outside Huddersfield, and Ilkley moor, ou...; Claire O'Neill | 658 c681 (Link to this contribution)
I pay tribute to the hon. Lady and the Environmental Audit Committee. She knows that I and others...; Rebecca Pow | 658 c682 (Link to this contribution)
The Minister quite rightly outlined the very wide-ranging ways we are decarbonising across all se...; Claire O'Neill | 658 c682 (Link to this contribution)
I pay tribute to my hon. Friend’s work on this topic, of which she is something of an expert. She...; Ed Davey | 658 c682 (Link to this contribution)
In thanking the Minister for her kind words about the design of CFD auctions, which has ensured t...; Claire O'Neill | 658 c682 (Link to this contribution)
I would slightly challenge the right hon. Gentleman on the point about investment. He will know t...; David TC Davies | 658 c683 (Link to this contribution)
Does the Minister agree that no matter how strongly people feel about this issue, they do not hav...; Claire O'Neill | 658 c683 (Link to this contribution)
To peacefully protest is a fundamental part of our democracy, but I do think that forcing people ...; Caroline Lucas | 658 c683 (Link to this contribution)
The Minister regularly takes me to task for not being positive enough about her Government, so I ...; Claire O'Neill | 658 c683 (Link to this contribution)
I have to say, Mr Deputy Speaker, that this is a wonderful day to have the hon. Lady being positi...; Julia Lopez | 658 c683 (Link to this contribution)
There is a genuine public appetite to protect the environment, but it is not always clear to peop...; Claire O'Neill | 658 c683 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend will have hopefully heard our announcement that we will have our second Green Grea...; Barry Sheerman | 658 c683 (Link to this contribution)
Does the Minister agree that we should all hang our heads in shame? The great political parties a...; Claire O'Neill | 658 c684 (Link to this contribution)
We should have been listening to the scientists in 1950, when the link was first found. What has ...; Peter Aldous | 658 c684 (Link to this contribution)
The UK has a good and proven track record in meeting the challenges of climate change, from passi...; Claire O'Neill | 658 c684 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend has been a marvellous champion of renewable energy. It was a delight to launch the...; Liz McInnes | 658 c684 (Link to this contribution)
There seems to be precious little action on achieving the Aichi biodiversity targets. The UK is o...; Claire O'Neill | 658 c684 (Link to this contribution)
I am afraid that the hon. Lady is challenging the breadth of my knowledge on this. It is not my D...; Philip Hollobone | 658 c685 (Link to this contribution)
Authoritative research from Carbon Brief shows that the UK has now cut CO₂emissions t...; Claire O'Neill | 658 c685 (Link to this contribution)
I know that my hon. Friend’s constituents in Kettering are among the most green-minded in the cou...; Sammy Wilson | 658 c685 (Link to this contribution)
Despite the views of many in this House that Government action can control and fine-tune the comp...; Claire O'Neill | 658 c685 (Link to this contribution)
The right hon. Gentleman will not be surprised to know that I disagree with his scientific analys...; Sarah Newton | 658 c685 (Link to this contribution)
Cornwall and the wider south-west have clean growth at the heart of our local and regional indust...; Claire O'Neill | 658 c685 (Link to this contribution)
I will look into that. Cornwall is wonderful for many things and the adoption of clean growth as ...; Clive Efford | 658 c686 (Link to this contribution)
In answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Ynys Môn (Albert Owen), the Minister said she liked lo...; Claire O'Neill | 658 c686 (Link to this contribution)
I neglected to mention the £8 million we have put into local energy partnerships. We often find t...; Douglas Ross | 658 c686 (Link to this contribution)
Solar energy plays a crucial role. Last month, I met the Minister and Moray-based AES Solar, whic...; Claire O'Neill | 658 c686 (Link to this contribution)
It will be published as soon as possible. I thank my hon. Friend for that meeting. As he will kno...; Ben Lake | 658 c686 (Link to this contribution)
The Minister mentioned in her statement that the Government had sought the advice of the Committe...; Claire O'Neill | 658 c686 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman is inviting me to make funding bids to my colleagues in the Treasury. Of cours...; Baroness Prentis of Banbury | 658 c686 (Link to this contribution)
None of us can doubt the energy and determination of the Minister to deal with this issue, but co...; Claire O'Neill | 658 c687 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend points out an incredibly important fact. While people want to do the right thing, ...; Alison Thewliss | 658 c687 (Link to this contribution)
I asked the Minister earlier what she would do to incentivise all renewables, and I got a very na...; Claire O'Neill | 658 c687 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Lady makes the important point that we need to hurry up with the smart export guarantee ...; Kerry McCarthy | 658 c687 (Link to this contribution)
Bristol was the first city in the UK—I think—to declare a climate emergency, so I put on record t...; Baroness Debbonaire | 658 c687 (Link to this contribution)
Hear, hear!; Kerry McCarthy | 658 c687 (Link to this contribution)
That is a joint bid by my hon. Friend and me!
I want to ask specifically about sustainable ...; Claire O'Neill | 658 c687 (Link to this contribution)
As a Nailsea girl, I would naturally be biased in favour of a Bristol bid, but I suspect that the...; Paul Blomfield | 658 c688 (Link to this contribution)
The Minister is right to talk about the need for more action at an international level, but can s...; Claire O'Neill | 658 c688 (Link to this contribution)
Let us try to win the bid first. Other countries are bidding, and I want to ensure that if we do ...; Kate Green | 658 c688 (Link to this contribution)
Earlier this year, the mayor of Greater Manchester published his clean air plan. I welcomed that,...; Claire O'Neill | 658 c688 (Link to this contribution)
I commend that plan as a good example of the work that can be done to pull through change. We hav...; Paul Sweeney | 658 c688 (Link to this contribution)
The nature of this emergency necessitates a national mission-orientated approach, the same sort o...; Claire O'Neill | 658 c688 (Link to this contribution)
I understand the BiFab situation, which the hon. Gentleman and I have discussed before, but I mus...; Luke Pollard | 658 c689 (Link to this contribution)
A letter has been signed by me and by Councillor Tudor Evans, the leader of Plymouth City Council...; Claire O'Neill | 658 c689 (Link to this contribution)
I am sorry if that is the impression that has been given. I cannot say too often that we need act...; Patrick Grady | 658 c689 (Link to this contribution)
Pupils at Kelvindale primary school in Hillhead, secondary school pupils at the Glasgow Academy a...; Claire O'Neill | 658 c689 (Link to this contribution)
That is an incredibly important point. In fact, we should be really proud of the way we spend fun...; Matthew Pennycook | 658 c689 (Link to this contribution)
I join others in acknowledging the progress made under successive Governments, but the truth is t...; Claire O'Neill | 658 c689 (Link to this contribution)
I think that part of the challenge, but also part of the opportunity, is that this has to be a cr...; Helen Goodman | 658 c690 (Link to this contribution)
At the beginning of her statement, the Minister said how good the Climate Change Act 10 years ago...; Claire O'Neill | 658 c690 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Lady is right that we have to act as well as just setting out these warm words. One of t...; Lady Hermon | 658 c690 (Link to this contribution)
I listened carefully to the Minister’s statement, but I was particularly struck by one phrase, wh...; Claire O'Neill | 658 c690 (Link to this contribution)
Indeed I can offer the hon. Lady that assurance. I have regular ministerial quadrilaterals—in thi...; Baroness Debbonaire | 658 c690 (Link to this contribution)
The right hon. Lady might be sick of hearing me ask the same question over and over again, so I w...; Claire O'Neill | 658 c691 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Lady will get the same answer, but she gets points for persistency. I am still waiting f...; Nicholas Dakin | 658 c691 (Link to this contribution)
The Minister is absolutely right to focus on actions. The Government’s own analysis shows that th...; Claire O'Neill | 658 c691 (Link to this contribution)
Yes.
Subjects: Demonstrations Conservation Coal Climate change Developing countries Development aid Housing Energy Heating International cooperation Waste management Renewable energy Tree planting Carbon emissions
Contains statistics: Yes
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