Speeches by Murray.

“How can the Industrial Strategy Advisory Council effectively gather local input to ensure a successful outcome all over Scotland?”

“We have heard in your answers just now that payment conditions are often a barrier to people moving, and that further education and industry are working to try and overcome these barriers. We are also hearing that people are relocating abroad, so it is not relocation itself that is the problem. What do you think the pr…”

“Finally, to move away slightly from that, I think to an extent you have answered this a little bit, but offshore wind developer Ocean Winds has told us that market signals are working against the development of clean energy projects in the north of Scotland. What are your views on that?”

“In that sense, do we need to have more training for joiners, plumbers and electricians at domestic construction level as well?”

“You are clearly concentrating on the jobs and the skills, but to move that skilled workforce into the north of Scotland, we are going to need homes and infrastructure for these people. At the moment, what is your impression on whether that will be available? If we can get the jobs, skills and training right, are we goi…”

“That is all really optimistic and everything, but does that make the workforce planning even more important? It is the number of jobs that are going to be transitioned across. It is the number of scholarships, which I presume are also limited by the caps on the colleges at the moment.”

“Is there more that Government could do to support smaller companies? Are some of these smaller companies in supply chains that are not necessarily able to retrain the workforce in the way they would like to?”

“You talked a little bit previously about the speed at which things are happening. Is it helpful when the Government are seen to draw back from net zero targets, or does that encourage existing high-carbon energy to look at diversification that would encourage more collaboration across the industries as there is more of…”

“To what extent do high-carbon employers have a responsibility for training a workforce transition?”

“How confident are you that the Office for Clean Energy Jobs will have a positive impact on the workforce and workforce planning in Scotland?”

“We clearly need to transition the energy skilled workforce across. What you were saying earlier, Jim, about the wider skills base that is going to be necessary was interesting. Referring back to Kirsteen’s question, if there is no accommodation for people, it is very difficult for them to relocate. In terms of things t…”

“We have heard quite a lot about the challenges that colleges are facing, and some of the solutions that you are putting in, but what should the UK Government be doing to support the provision of energy transition skills? What more should they be contributing?”

“I met a young man in my community in Mid Dunbartonshire the other day who is a North sea diver and was training to move into the offshore wind sector. He was having to pay for it himself. Mid Dunbartonshire is on the west of Scotland. Is there more accessibility to funded retraining on the east side of Scotland rather …”

“That is not my experience in my constituency of Mid Dunbartonshire. We did a survey recently that showed that there was quite a lot of difficulty in finding an NHS dentist, and that many people who were with NHS dentists found that they were moving to private practice. In fact, I know of many constituents in east Dunba…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Butler. I thank the hon. Member for Glasgow North East (Maureen Burke) for securing this important debate and for her very moving speech. It is clear that she is committed to her constituents. We need to break the cycle of inequality. As we heard, on the streets of nor…”

“In my constituency there is an ageing population in need of local healthcare services. Will the Secretary of State meet his Scottish counterpart to discuss the need for increased access to community healthcare, and specifically the need for a new health and care centre within my constituency?”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Lewell. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Cheadle (Mr Morrison) for securing this debate. Across conflict lines from Gaza to South Sudan, the Congo, Syria and Ukraine, people wearing nothing more than a hi-vis vest risk, and too often lose, their lives to keep h…”

“In my constituency, many elderly and disabled people face very high energy bills due to essential medical equipment and heating needs. What support are the Government providing to ensure that these households are protected from the high cost of electricity?”

“That leads me to the point I was going to make as a secondary point. If we are talking about retrieving the satellites and deorbiting them, we are also talking, as I understand it, about a location on the Earth’s surface where they can fall. Therefore, we are likely to have a pile of space debris on the seabed. What is…”

“There must be an international market for debris.”