Speeches by Billington.
Every Hansard contribution by Polly Billington this parliament, most recent first. Back to the MP page for the headline figures and analysed positions.
Showing 261–280 of 640 contributions · most-recent first
| Date | Debate & contribution | Words |
|---|---|---|
| 3 Sept 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 734) “We do not have that evidence at the moment?” | 9 |
| 3 Sept 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 734) “Angharad, as a Greenpeace campaigner, how do you feel about compiling your talking points in order to be able to support large international companies that are developing large energy projects in communities?” | 32 |
| 3 Sept 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 734) “No, no, I mean when we were talking about the north-east of Scotland. Why does Greenpeace think that it is in a good place to talk to oil and gas workers about what is right for them and what is best for them?” | 43 |
| 3 Sept 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 734) “Heaven forefend you should meet them.” | 6 |
| 3 Sept 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 734) “Why don’t you leave them alone and leave it to people who do know those organisations, those communities, those institutions, and those workers better than you?” | 26 |
| 3 Sept 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 734) “Because those other organisations would not care enough about climate to do it?” | 13 |
| 3 Sept 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 734) “Slight?” | 1 |
| 3 Sept 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 734) “And Miatta.” | 2 |
| 3 Sept 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 734) “I cannot remember all the things that I wanted to ask in relation to this. Lorraine, it strikes me that what you are sort of saying, I think, is that this is not a comms problem, this is a policy design problem.” | 42 |
| 3 Sept 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 734) “That comes to my second question. Stephanie, in relation to your experience about citizens’ juries—which I have contributed to by giving testament and so forth in the assembly that Luke oversaw before I came to this place. I know and understand the purpose and so forth of citizens’ assemblies, but it does strike me tha…” | 151 |
| 3 Sept 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 734) “Forgive me, market research does that too. People get quite a lot out of market research, including language, policy, design and so forth. It is not just about your brand, is it?” | 32 |
| 3 Sept 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 734) “This is all very interesting, but it goes back to Melanie’s point about lack of leadership and slowing things down. We have accountable democratic institutions at local level: they are called councils. What role do you see for councils and what problems are they currently experiencing in being able to make sure that th…” | 69 |
| 3 Sept 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 734) “Simply to do the processes that they are already legally able to do like, for example, process planning applications?” | 19 |
| 3 Sept 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 734) “I feel like I could have heard this evidence at any time since 2008. For full disclosure, I obviously worked with Roger, and I have worked with Becky on the Assembly, and I know Bob quite well too. In 2008 and 2009 in the run-up to Copenhagen negotiations a scientist was revealed to have used the word “trick”. I recomm…” | 250 |
| 3 Sept 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 734) “Do you think that campaign groups—climate action campaign groups such as Greenpeace and indeed some of the stuff that I have been involved in, again before I came to this place—are well placed to engage with people to design things that will work for the outcomes of the people, bearing in mind that climate campaign gro…” | 83 |
| 3 Sept 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 734) “But TikTok and Twitter have changed quite a lot so what I am saying is what, therefore, should be the new strategies that deal with the current situation as distinct from us basically saying IPSO is no good, Ofcom is terrible, we can blame the Daily Mail for everything and everything is quite difficult inside a broadca…” | 81 |
| 3 Sept 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 734) “Have we learnt any lessons from that experience?” | 8 |
| 3 Sept 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 734) “Can I just ask a couple of other questions? One is very specifically on therefore putting scientists and academics aside for one moment for some of the reasons that we have discussed, who would be effective, trusted messengers to be able to give people confidence that climate action is something that they can be part o…” | 112 |
| 3 Sept 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 734) “I cannot remember all the things that I wanted to ask in relation to this. Lorraine, it strikes me that what you are sort of saying, I think, is that this is not a comms problem, this is a policy design problem.” | 42 |
| 3 Sept 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 734) “That comes to my second question. Stephanie, in relation to your experience about citizens’ juries—which I have contributed to by giving testament and so forth in the assembly that Luke oversaw before I came to this place. I know and understand the purpose and so forth of citizens’ assemblies, but it does strike me tha…” | 151 |