Speeches by Reader.

“Ana, a final question to you. A problem with the COPs is that they are too far removed from people’s everyday experiences. Will the agreements from Santa Marta have a more direct impact on people’s lives?”

“Matthew, the market half-hour settlement is seven months delayed under your business’s programme. Are you going to meet May 2027?”

“Ana, a final question to you. A problem with the COPs is that they are too far removed from people’s everyday experiences. Will the agreements from Santa Marta have a more direct impact on people’s lives?”

“Is there a risk that you create two groups, the coalition that are willing and working and the others, or is the hope that you create some FOMO, so that they want to come and join you at some point? How do you make sure that you do bring everyone on this journey? We cannot do it without every single country being invol…”

“Matt, how can its outcomes feed into the more formal UNFCCC process at COP31 and beyond?”

“Investment flexibility, and batteries and EV are the prime example, increases our exposure to Chinese technologies and Chinese influence on our energy market. In terms of energy security, which is what our Committee looks at as well as the drive to net zero, is the drive on flexibility, more batteries, this flooding of…”

“The Northampton-based McManus Pub Company runs 18 pubs and employs 370 people. I spoke to Tom McManus yesterday, who told me that successive Governments have ignored hospitality and that in the past five years business costs have made it harder for him to turn a profit. Tom has asked me to lobby the Government to cut V…”

“My final question is for Richard. What challenges do the pace and trajectory of decarbonisation globally present for Aberdeen?”

“Paul talked about the future of work, and I saw from my time in the construction sector people moving between sectors, moving between disciplines, is a lot more common and a lot less rigid now. You train as a civil engineer, and you are a civil engineer for life. You might eventually become a politician, who knows. How…”

“In our last session, we had quite a bit of evidence presented to us that workers felt their employers were not doing enough to support them in transitioning. Susan, you rightly said that we spoke to workers to hear their stories and that evidence is very clear. The vast majority felt that the employers in the industry …”

“In our previous evidence session, we heard a compelling argument to maintain current levels to sustain the workforce long-term in the North Sea. Evidence from other countries where there are much more favourable regulatory and fiscal regimes—America, for example—indicates that there has still been a massive reduction i…”

“Richard, I will ask you the same question. If the Government said yes to all the requests from the industry, changing the fiscal regime, the regulatory regime, opening up opportunities, but we would still see productivity gains, meaning not as many jobs around, how does the union consider that? What is the union’s posi…”

“Would that not be the role of the North Sea Transition Authority? Isn’t it a key part of its role to set that strategy?”

“Perhaps this is one for our discussion of where the report goes, but we have some parts of the sector paying a levy and others do not. In sectors such as the construction sector where we have to have a bigger amount of training there is the building safety levy, which everyone paid into to deal with the changes the ind…”

“Russell, we have had evidence from the Chamber of Commerce, which I think we received this morning. I think I had underestimated the number of fly-in, fly-out workers that there were and how the sector in Aberdeen has an impact across the UK. You also talked about five sectors of the economy—tourism, food and drink, li…”

“In our previous evidence session, we heard a compelling argument to maintain current levels to sustain the workforce long-term in the North Sea. Evidence from other countries where there are much more favourable regulatory and fiscal regimes—America, for example—indicates that there has still been a massive reduction i…”

“If you are a supplier of offshore remote vehicles, do you pay a levy into the ECITB for training, or is the levy restricted to those who have construction and engineering skills?”

“In our last session, we had quite a bit of evidence presented to us that workers felt their employers were not doing enough to support them in transitioning. Susan, you rightly said that we spoke to workers to hear their stories and that evidence is very clear. The vast majority felt that the employers in the industry …”

“When students are coming to you, are they thinking about having a more varied career than maybe 20 years ago when they thought, “I want to be a welder in the oil and gas sector and that is what I want to do for the rest of my life. I will train in that and I will do that”? Are you finding students coming through being …”

“Paul talked about the future of work, and I saw from my time in the construction sector people moving between sectors, moving between disciplines, is a lot more common and a lot less rigid now. You train as a civil engineer, and you are a civil engineer for life. You might eventually become a politician, who knows. How…”