Speeches by Buckley.

“Q12. Watching the Prime Minister secure his legacy this week, with the NATO summit and the Hillsborough law, I wondered if he wanted to make it a hat-trick, and support Shrewsbury college’s bid for a new construction skills centre? As the main post-16 provider in the county, our outstanding college trains over 10,000 y…”

“That is really encouraging, thank you. While we have you, Ms Eales, can you talk to us about any concrete ways in which that national security assessment we have been discussing may already have changed the UK’s international nature diplomacy?”

“Reflecting on the Government’s response to the issues that came forward in the assessment and how that is affecting the work that we are doing, the OEP’s latest progress report made it clear that Government remain off-track in terms of meeting their nature goals, and it says we must “move mountains” by 2030 to be a glo…”

“It is very encouraging, and I think we would all agree with what is written in the report, that meaningful progress is being made and that the foundations are in place. Specifically, we just want to understand whether the slowness of getting there has had any impact on our global reputation. Is there any international …”

“Thank you. It sounds really impactful. I have a final question for the Minister. Are you still committed to introducing a global nature Bill to achieve the Government’s species protection aims?”

“I encourage you to consider it, given the planning implications.”

“I will move on to Ms Langengen.”

“If you don’t mind me interrupting, colleagues will press you in more detail on those issues. I suppose my question to you is: why are you not doing any research into the heat island effect, given the scale of the impact? Why is that not something that you are looking at?”

“So nobody except you knows what the temperature is in Slough.”

“Mr Eaton, do you have any thoughts?”

“It is two different things, isn’t it? There is the demand and you efficiently providing a service, and there is a completely separate question: are you having an impact on the local community air temperature being between 2° and 9° higher, particularly when we are experiencing extreme heat? It sounds as though you are …”

“Do you have to report that back to the council? Is that public information?”

“Do you feel that it should be a factor in the carbon credits we were discussing earlier?”

“That is a really helpful recommendation. Thank you.”

“In Shrewsbury, we regularly suffer flooding along the River Severn and Rea brook, so I really welcome today’s announcement. The measures proposed reflect the common-sense and long-term solutions that my colleagues and I set out in the Environmental Audit Committee’s report on flooding resilience. We gave feedback from …”

“Can I just double check? You are saying that you do actually conduct ongoing assessments of the environmental impact, including temperature, of the data centres that you are running.”

“I want to move on to other environmental impacts potentially linked to data centres, particularly where we have clusters. I am thinking specifically about Slough, where we have the largest cluster of over 40 data centres. Mr Eaton, I know that one of those is connected to your organisation.”

“Can you confirm that in Slough, where you are one of 40 data centres, the temperature has risen in that geography as a consequence of that cluster?”

“The hon. Gentleman is being generous in giving way. Does he join me in congratulating Barnsley market, a local market that is leading the way by bringing health services into the town centre, which is driving up footfall and has led to a thriving community? We will be leading a delegation from the all-party parliamenta…”

“I am going to push you again, because we are looking for an actual example. We are moving out of the theory into the real world of our Treasury in this country and where it has applied this to either risk or opportunity. We need to understand. Do you have an example that has come out of the end of the sausage machine?”