Speeches by White.

“Committee rose.”

“I have two excellent colleagues who serve in Scotland and who do a lot of work on that, but I will endeavour to take it back and make sure we do everything we can to try and influence those decisions. As I set out in my opening remarks, these amendments to the nuclear safeguards regulations will strengthen the UK’s abi…”

“I thank hon. Members for their valuable contributions. As many of us have come from the Jo Cox event, I would like to start with what is “more in common”. I think that we are agreed on the global gold standard towards nuclear, both on safeguarding and the opportunity for our international competitiveness, and that is a…”

“I beg to move, That the Committee has considered the draft Nuclear Safeguards (EU Exit and Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2026. The regulations were laid before the House on 23 April. I will set out the purpose of nuclear safeguards and explain the proposed amendments to the Nuclear Safeguards (EU Exit) Regulations 2019…”

“My foot is on my EV pedal, within the speed limits, at pace. I think you are absolutely right that, if anything, since these figures and this assessment, it has moved towards a more compelling argument towards a low carbon transition. Sadly, there are no Members here from the official Opposition, but we are slightly pr…”

“You raised a number of points there, Chair. You are absolutely right that the Committee on Climate Change proposed a trajectory that was slightly more focused on behaviour change. Having reflected, we have decided to try a different route that is less reliant on consumers to make those differences. It may be that some …”

“I was going to say, if you will just let me finish, that the risk is around making sure we have that long-term investment; we need to make sure we have that investment trajectory. I am sure we will come on to the investment needs; we need to make sure that we have the investment and that we deliver. It is a big transit…”

“In many ways, it should help—you are right. You know how committed I am—”

“I thought there was a danger flag on your watch. Making some of those shifts across some of our building sectors is going to be difficult. On retrofit, those of us who have been around the sector for a while know that some of that has been harder to achieve than we would have wanted; people do not like to look at retro…”

“We have gone through what Ryan called the portfolio of portfolios, but we could go through sector by sector and talk about areas where we are over-delivering and where we are more—”

“As soon as possible.”

“We have always committed to having that review. We want to make sure we maintain a good car manufacturing base in the UK. We want to support the industry to transition towards those lower-carbon vehicles. It has been doing a lot of heavy lifting to do that, and we are seeing the benefits. We are making sure we continue…”

“We have a process that we manage continually to make sure we are on track. Clearly, there are always new things coming forward, and I am sure we will come on to AI, which was not discussed when we were setting carbon budgets 1, 2 and 3, but which is now part of our discussions all the time. We want to make sure that we…”

“This is the first budget that we are looking at including international aviation and shipping in. You know that we work through the IMO on CORSIA and it is limited to international aviation and shipping. To date, we have not used any of those international credits.”

“We think that these technologies have a role. The Committee on Climate Change has been clear in each of its scenarios that CCUS has a role. There is also a role for GGRs. We have put a certain amount of investment in those, and we see the opportunity for the UK. Because of our geological heritage, we could have a compa…”

“Let me flip it around slightly. I think the biggest opportunity and risk around—”

“We always come back with the carbon budget delivery plan, and we will do that. As you remember, last October we had to come back with a revised carbon budget delivery plan for carbon budget 6 because of the legal challenge that happened under the last Government. We did that. Officials have been focused on setting carb…”

“You are a huge expert in this field, and you are right that, with the international fossil fuel price spike, the figures would have looked more favourable to low carbon investment, and do look more favourable today. You also know that we are trying to strike a very fine balance, because factors change in different dire…”

“I do not disagree with your premise. You are absolutely right that there is a certain amount of shift—there is behaviour change in terms of EVs, the electrification of homes etc. But when we talk about behaviour change in this context, we are talking about the harder, more challenging behaviour change elements, which a…”

“For sure. He is, as you know, very passionate about it.”