🗣️ Speeches and Debates
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My Lords, the Statement in another place said that reducing emissions would lower bills. This country has reduced emissions by more than any other country, yet our bills are now higher than any other OECD country, nearly all of which rely on gas like us. Can the Minister explain this? If he is going to say that, in future, renewables will be cheaper than fossil fuels, then why do they need...
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Why UK electricity prices are among the highest in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development – Lord Lilley. Short debate
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My Lords, does the noble Baroness speak to the NFU, which does not want to rejoin Europe because it believes that the divergences from EU rules since Brexit have benefited it enormously? Doing away with those divergences would cost £600 million to £800 million a year just for PPPs, and £500 million a year for fisheries.
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My Lords, it is always a great and nostalgic pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Liddle, whose enthusiasm for rejoining the European Union reminds me of the remarks of Samuel Johnson about a friend of his who was contemplating a second marriage—that it was a triumph of hope over experience. No experience or facts will dint the hope and enthusiasm of the noble Lord, Lord Liddle. But we...
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My Lords, in response to a question from the Liberal Democrat spokesman Al Pinkerton in the other House about what the collapse of the treaty means in practice for the long-promised right of return for Chagossians, the Minister replied, “we believe that this is the best route, under Mauritius’s guidance, leading to resettlement Will the Minister now confirm that that was misleading? The...
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✍️ Written Questions and Answers
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To ask His Majesty's Government, following the removal of export health certificates within the UK–EU sanitary and phytosanitary zone, whether exporters of animals and animal products will require an intra-union animal health certificate when crossing borders of European Union member states; and if so, what estimate they have made of the cost of those certificates.
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To ask His Majesty's Government whether the Chagossian contact group will continue to meet on a quarterly basis for the period in which the UK-Mauritius Agreement concerning the Chagos Archipelago including Diego Garcia is in effect.
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To ask His Majesty's Government how many meetings of the Chagossian contact group have been attended by a Minister of the Crown.
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To ask His Majesty's Government whether they will publish the legal advice that ministers received about the right to self-determination in respect of the Chagos Archipelago.
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To ask His Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with EU counterparts at the level of the Joint Committee to fulfil paragraph 2 of Article 6 of the Ireland/Northern Ireland Protocol which states that the Joint Committee “shall adopt appropriate recommendations with a view to avoiding controls at the ports and airports of Northern Ireland to the extent possible”.
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To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Wilson of Sedgefield on 27 June (HL 8452), whether the analysis by the National Energy System Operator drew directly on (1) information published in audited accounts of special purpose vehicles (SPVs), (2) Gordon Hughes' analysis of 247 SPVs for wind projects published in Wind Power Economics: Rhetoric and Reality, Volume...
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To ask His Majesty's Government whether exports of live animals (1) from Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland and (2) from the Republic of Ireland to Northern Ireland require an Intra Trade Animal Health Certificate.
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To ask His Majesty's Government what proportion of consignments of products of animal origin are subject to sanitary and phytosanitary checks (1) when entering the UK and (2) when exported from the UK to the EU, and what these checks entail.
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