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 281–300 of 640 contributions · most-recent first
| Date | Debate & contribution | Words |
|---|---|---|
| 3 Sept 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 734) “Stephanie, what evidence do you have that the early engagement processes that you are talking about have averted the judicial reviews and slowing down of the planning processes that are the biggest anxieties that the Government had about introducing particularly the large-scale infrastructure?” | 43 |
| 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) “Regardless of who it is done by or regardless of the profit and where the money goes?” | 17 |
| 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 am struck by the fact that there are a significant number of obligations on large developers, and indeed a big organisation like National Grid, in order to be able to do this, yet they still end up with this opposition, people raising money for JRs and so forth. So, even with the obligations that are currently in pla…” | 96 |
| 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) “Regardless of who it is done by or regardless of the profit and where the money goes?” | 17 |
| 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) “One last question, which is going to sound weird in the context of local stuff, is the politics of despair, which is driven by, “Yes, but what about China?” which is undermining almost all of our policy arguments. However many thousand people died of heat stress this summer, people’s feelings of powerlessness are one o…” | 93 |
| 3 Sept 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 734) “I totally understand about sortition, and I understand about representation and all of that kind of thing. I also know that in some of those circumstances it is particularly challenging to make sure that the most disadvantaged and the most excluded get the same level of confidence; they do not have the same level of ca…” | 125 |
| 3 Sept 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 734) “Where do you see the Government in terms of their attitude towards adopting those kind of tactics? As we have agreed that this is fundamentally a policy problem rather than a comms problem, are the Government open to using those strategies to design policies that might help the most vulnerable and most excluded?” | 53 |
| 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) “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) “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) “If it is a small project that might be possible. If it is a large, nationally significant infrastructure project, that is significantly more challenging, isn’t it?” | 26 |
| 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) “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) “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 |