Speeches by White.

“Thank you for your question, although I somewhat refute the premise. I have been working in this area for a long time. When I came into this role last September, one of the things that I was really excited to see was the engagement from Departments that I had not worked as closely with before. For instance, the Departm…”

“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…”

“We think that what we have in place at the moment is robust. I want officials to focus on making sure that they are delivering on the projects. We want scrutiny to be done—we have a huge amount of scrutiny, which is excellent—but I want officials to focus their time on delivery. I do not think we need another scrutiny …”

“For sure. For these specific environmental targets, an annual report is published by the Committee on Climate Change, which is an annual marking of homework. I do not recall many other parts of Government getting an annual homework mark. That, I am sure, is an opportunity to scrutinise Government.”

“As Ryan said, when we publish something, it is on the basis of it being an HMG document. We were grateful for the scrutiny of the Committee, a lot of which we accepted, including pushing for a debate and so on; there were a lot of elements that came back, but we have to make a judgment about officials’ time, and I woul…”

“Since we came into office in 2024 with our clean power 2030 mission, we have made huge progress, whether that be reordering the grid connection queues, scrapping the onshore wind ban or announcing the warm homes plan. We have worked across Government in a number of areas; those were all cross-Government decisions that …”

“Thank you, Mr Davies, for your question, and for championing of parts of the industry, particularly around heat pumps. You are absolutely right that there is opportunity here. You will know that since coming into office in July 2024, we have secured £90 billion of investment around the clean energy transition. The carb…”

“I might lean on Ryan, but my understanding of the precedent is that it usually within an 18-month period. Is that correct?”

“I cannot comment specifically or give you a number to add to the impressive numbers that you have shared around green hydrogen. At the moment, we are focusing on electrification and areas where the shift is perhaps easier and is already happening. We are building on that success. You mentioned the harder to abate secto…”

“I believe the greenhouse gas removals review, which Lord Whitehead is very passionate about, is imminent, but let me just double check. Ryan, do you know when it will be?”

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

“Yes, mitigation has to be our primary lever. As we have said, right now, electrification is the primary route towards delivering emissions reductions, and it is the best thing at the moment. You are right that it will be the primary route, but the supplementary role obviously has a larger window. I am conscious that—”

“I think we can commit to making sure that we come back to you on when there will be an official response to the Whitehead review and how we anticipate it will interact with the delivery plan.”

“I agree. We will come back to the Committee on when the Whitehead review will be published and how that will interact with the delivery plan.”

“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.”

“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 thank my hon. Friend for her leadership in West Bromwich, in this place, and internationally. This Government have consulted on our manifesto commitment to introduce transition plan requirements for UK regulated financial institutions and large companies, and my Department will publish our response to that consultati…”

“I thank my hon. Friend for her continued championing of this matter. It was exciting to see the opening of the first project in February. We are focusing on the local heat networks, but we will continue to engage and are glad to see the CfD projects coming to fruition.”

“May I pay tribute to my hon. Friend for her leadership on this issue? The UK is a global leader on carbon pricing and nature recovery. We are committed to strengthening carbon markets to help us achieve our climate and nature goals. At London Climate Action Week, we will set out our work to centre integrity and build s…”

“We are grateful for the Severn Estuary Commission’s work, and we recognise the benefits that tidal range can bring to our energy system. For now, the Government remain open to considering well developed proposals for harnessing the tidal range energy in the bays and estuaries around our coastline. I am very happy to me…”