Speeches by Hinchliff.
Every Hansard contribution by Chris Hinchliff this parliament, most recent first. Back to the MP page for the headline figures and analysed positions.
Showing 361–380 of 551 contributions · most-recent first
| Date | Debate & contribution | Words |
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| 3 Mar 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 715) “I am not certain that I have had an answer yet, though, on what approach you are planning to take to achieve that. Clearly, there has been an issue. There has been the misreporting. That has been identified. There is a challenge with self-reporting. What is it that you are looking at doing differently to prevent that h…” | 66 |
| 3 Mar 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 715) “Does the Department have a position on self-certification going forward?” | 10 |
| 3 Mar 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 715) “As we have heard, the NAO report says that the Government cannot demonstrate that their current arrangements are adequate to give them confidence industry is meeting sustainability standards. Do you agree with that? If Ofgem cannot verify reliably companies’ self-reported data, how will the new 100% sustainability crit…” | 50 |
| 3 Mar 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 715) “What do you see as the main barriers for Ofgem in being able to verify that biomass is sustainable, especially if consignments continue to be self-reported under the new system?” | 30 |
| 3 Mar 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 715) “To return to monitoring and enforcement, Mr Brearley, I am not actually sure I got an answer to the question on whether the shipment Ofgem identified as misreported was part of Drax’s sustainable biomass programme. Will you continue to accept Drax’s voluntary sustainability certification as a proxy for Government susta…” | 59 |
| 3 Mar 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 715) “Permanent Secretary, can you set out when you will consult on the new sustainability criteria and why it has taken so long?” | 22 |
| 3 Mar 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 715) “Can you be a little more specific than later this year?” | 11 |
| 3 Mar 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 715) “Will it be the second half of this year? Can I push you? No.” | 14 |
| 3 Mar 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 715) “Will that range of alternative pathways be set out in the Government’s response to the carbon budgets?” | 17 |
| 3 Mar 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 715) “Mr Brearley, can you explain why Ofgem failed to identify Drax’s misreporting in 2021-22 at the time? Can you confirm whether the shipment Ofgem identified was misreported was part of Drax’s sustainable biomass programme?” | 34 |
| 3 Mar 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 715) “If the new criteria of 100% sustainable sourcing had been in place at the time of Drax’s misreporting, would Drax have been in breach of the criteria?” | 27 |
| 3 Mar 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 715) “Without asking you to set out specific policies, given, as you have just said, that the Government will be setting those out in due course, can you tell the Committee whether the Government are currently working now on developing contingency plans, should BECCS not deliver what is hoped for?” | 49 |
| 3 Mar 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 715) “Given the uncertainty of the technology, the NAO said that the Government should regularly review the role of BECCS and make contingency plans if it is not delivering as hoped for. Given the point I tried to make earlier about the date for BECCS delivery at scale continuing to be pushed back, what contingency plans do …” | 73 |
| 3 Mar 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 715) “Okay. I sense where that is going.” | 7 |
| 3 Mar 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 715) “I had a further question, which is about the timescales that we are looking at to achieve our objectives through this. In the last carbon budget delivery plan, the expectation was that BECCS would be delivered at scale by 2030. The CCC in CB7 now say at scale by 2032. How many times can this date be pushed back, and is…” | 84 |
| 3 Mar 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 715) “I am not asking you to set American policy. I am asking whether we are confident that the correct maths is being applied and that the correct accounting is happening on their side, for us to be sure about the total overall sum.” | 43 |
| 3 Mar 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 715) “You are confident that the US will continue to properly account for those outside of the Paris agreement.” | 18 |
| 3 Mar 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 715) “Sure. Forgive me if I am wrong, but my understanding for the way that BECCS carbon accounting works is that the carbon from the harvesting is supposed to be accounted for in the country where the harvesting takes place. The US has removed itself from the Paris agreement. Would it be sensible for the UK to adjust its po…” | 73 |
| 3 Mar 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 715) “I want to follow up one final time on the points we have been discussing. You have referred, Mr Brearley, several times to the 70/30 threshold. Drax’s self-certification scheme certifies 98% of its current sourcing as sustainable. It has taken an investigative journalist to identify that there is a problem there. We ha…” | 139 |
| 26 Feb 2025 | Environmental Audit Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 730) “I will understand if you cannot answer this, but you have mentioned “in due course”. Are you able to tell us what “due course” would mean, when a decision on your conclusions would be possible?” | 35 |