Speeches by Chope.

“Next week, can the Leader of the House produce a Government statement in response to the Hallett review on covid-19 vaccines? Lady Hallett recommended major reform of the vaccine damage payment scheme. The Government said that they were considering the matter, but it is now more than five years since thousands of peopl…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Alec. I have been involved with the park homes issue for the best part of 30 years; I have 2,000 people in my constituency living in park homes, and I am much concerned by the abuses so many of them have suffered—not just in my constituency, but across the country.…”

“When the Minister kindly came to the APPG on park homes, he heard from Nat Slade, the environmental health officer for Arun district council, about the issues he faces and the need for urgent action on complex ownership structures, which was first promised in 2017. Where is that on the Minister’s agenda?”

“Nothing has actually happened yet. You just have the plan. I was hoping you were going to say that, “As a result of these regulators knocking their heads together, I can tell you that, this last week, X was agreed, which normally would have resulted in having to go to a whole lot of other regulators”. What has actually…”

“When will it be set up?”

“Why has it not been set up already?”

“Can you illustrate an example of where that has already happened? You say it is already in process.”

“Can you give some specific examples of where things have changed as a result of the Prime Minister’s leadership on this issue?”

“Will the two regulators be amalgamated by the end of this month or next month? When are they going to be amalgamated?”

“If they are happening now, why has it not been set up at the same time?”

“We had evidence from Rolls-Royce and others involved in AMRs that was rather sceptical about whether these changes were actually happening on the ground. That is why I was asking for some specific examples of where things are different on the ground now.”

“Has that lead regulator now been set up?”

“Has that actually happened?”

“One of the issues at the moment is around AI and the demands that AI imposes upon the electricity grid. Do you think that we should be encouraging AI data centres to be dependent upon advanced nuclear technology, rather than imposing demands upon the existing grid?”

“This is one for Alastair: should advanced reactors primarily connect to industrial users through private wire arrangements or be integrated into the national grid?”

“The price of net zero for many people is too high because it leads to de-industrialisation. To what extent do you think advanced nuclear technologies can enable us to counter the need for de-industrialisation in attaining our net zero commitments?”

“Is there a role for Government in this?”

“One of the distinctions between those two sorts of questions is that if you fail to answer a named day question by the specified date, then you provide a holding answer. It always used to be that when you got your final answer, there would be a reference to the date of the holding answer supplied. In a sense that was a…”

“Would you suggest that these big data centres should in the short term rely upon gas, for example, with a view to being able to embrace the advanced nuclear technologies in the longer term, without actually having to put a burden on the national grid in the meantime?”

“Do you think we should stop our policy of de-industrialisation at the moment because we know that just around the corner you have these advanced nuclear technologies that can actually solve the problem? Is there not a danger that if we carry on de-industrialising as we are at the moment, it will be too late to recover …”