Speeches by Crichton.

“One more question to Harriet. It is not just the workers who have been left behind. Trade unions have been left behind. The sector has been left behind here. To get that just transition, if we want to get that just transition, what do the UK Government have to do for workers? No one has mentioned it yet but we have thi…”

“Benj, they must transition to survive, and you have transitioned.”

“Yes, but you say there is no incentive. There is £200 million of incentives around Project Willow from the UK and Scottish Governments for projects like carbon capture and storage and SAF.”

“Paul Greenwood, from memory, sustainable aviation fuel will be a big part of Project Willow, the project that will save Grangemouth and Scotland’s carbon cluster. How viable does that sound to you?”

“You almost seem sceptical about it, but is sustainable aviation fuel the saviour of the refining sector?”

“Thank you all for coming in. I appreciate your time and expertise. You paint a grim picture. We once had 18 refineries. In 2022 we were down to six. Now we are down to four. How many will we have in 2032 or 2035?”

“Thank you, just for clarity.”

“I was, of course, referring to the shadow Minister, the hon. Member for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine (Andrew Bowie), who knows full well that he has missed the story here. Petrofac went into administration because the Dutch Government cut a contract for offshore wind farm developments. I dare say that that raises …”

“I have to say that this is a very underpowered urgent question. It is similar to a two-stroke engine attached to a rowing boat—[Interruption.]”

“I welcome the Secretary of State to his office and thank the Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, my hon. Friend the Member for Stretford and Urmston (Andrew Western), for a recent visit to the DWP debt and fraud centre in my constituency. There are 95 jobs at the centre doing tremendous work across the UK, …”

“A return flight from my Western Isles/Na h-Eileanan an Iar constituency to Glasgow can cost £600 return. That is enough to make Donald Trump think twice about coming to his mother’s home island. There is an air discount scheme, but what we really need is a public service obligation, with Government support for those vi…”

“I thank the Minister for coming to the Dispatch Box, and the hon. Member for Aberdeenshire North and Moray East (Seamus Logan) for raising this important issue. There is a question of fairness in the geographical distribution of the fund, and the Minister should consider that; I hope the funding will be reviewed in due…”

“Matt, do you have a role here? Does NESO have a role in helping or ascertaining what the community benefits should be for offshore projects?”

“Yes. There is a difference between community benefit and community share, or community ownership, and you have operated that model onshore. Could you operate that model of municipalities or communities buying in offshore as well?”

“By whom do you need to be told that? Do you need to be told by Ministers?”

“Who sets that—Ofgem or NESO?”

“I did not give you a chance to answer that £5,000 per megawatt per year question. That was said over a decade ago. It is not really transformative, is it?”

“Yes, when I talk about community, I do not want a forest path. I want to change people’s health outcomes and where they go to university. I want to change their lives with renewable energy, not just give them forest paths.”

“Would mandatory community benefit or community share affect the viability of the developments?”

“Yes. There is a difference between community benefit and community share, or community ownership, and you have operated that model onshore. Could you operate that model of municipalities or communities buying in offshore as well?”