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Speeches by Crichton.

Every Hansard contribution by Torcuil Crichton this parliament, most recent first. Back to the MP page for the headline figures and analysed positions.

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DateDebate & contributionWords
25 Mar 2026Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1804)

Your answer is spring.

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25 Mar 2026Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1804)

Can I just quickly ask, Elizabeth or Alan, for your thoughts on the electricity generator levy. Does that affect you?

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25 Mar 2026Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1804)

Can I just quickly ask, Elizabeth or Alan, for your thoughts on the electricity generator levy. Does that affect you?

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25 Mar 2026Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1804)

Staying on turbines, lost yesterday in a blizzard of news was this idea that, rather than paying wind farms to switch off, constraint payments, you would take the money to provide cheaper or free electricity to areas that hosted wind farms. You want a pilot. We want to see it fast and we want to see it in Scotland, don

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25 Mar 2026Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1804)

In that case, my questions are done.

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25 Mar 2026Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1804)

This is a quick question, Dan, because you alluded to it. The Chinese company Ming Yang has been blocked from opening a big turbine factory in the highlands today on security grounds. Is that the right decision by the UK Government?

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25 Mar 2026Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1804)

Thank you all for coming in. I am sorry I was late coming into the session after delaying you for an hour. Alex, you talked there about stable prices and markets. Earlier, you seemed to make quite a good argument for the energy profits levy, because it gives us politicians lots of money to decide what to do with. What

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25 Mar 2026Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1804)

This is pen-stroke policy. It is just changing the policy, is it not? That is all it needs.

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25 Mar 2026Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1804)

What was unfair about it?

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25 Mar 2026Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1804)

Do you have a sign that it is going to change its mind on it?

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25 Mar 2026Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1804)

Thank you all for coming in. I am sorry I was late coming into the session after delaying you for an hour. Alex, you talked there about stable prices and markets. Earlier, you seemed to make quite a good argument for the energy profits levy, because it gives us politicians lots of money to decide what to do with. What

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25 Mar 2026Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1804)

What was the fear? Is it a technical fear of something that might be in the turbines, such as the circuitry?

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25 Mar 2026Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1804)

Thank you all for coming in. I am sorry I was late coming into the session after delaying you for an hour. Alex, you talked there about stable prices and markets. Earlier, you seemed to make quite a good argument for the energy profits levy, because it gives us politicians lots of money to decide what to do with. What

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25 Mar 2026Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1804)

What was unfair about it?

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25 Mar 2026Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1804)

Just picking up on the carbon border adjustment mechanism, Elizabeth, that is about nitrogen as well, is it not? It is about fertiliser.

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25 Mar 2026Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1804)

This is pen-stroke policy. It is just changing the policy, is it not? That is all it needs.

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25 Mar 2026Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1804)

Just picking up on the carbon border adjustment mechanism, Elizabeth, that is about nitrogen as well, is it not? It is about fertiliser.

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25 Mar 2026Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1804)

This is a quick question, Dan, because you alluded to it. The Chinese company Ming Yang has been blocked from opening a big turbine factory in the highlands today on security grounds. Is that the right decision by the UK Government?

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25 Mar 2026Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1804)

What was unfair about it?

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25 Mar 2026Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1804)

Do you have a sign that it is going to change its mind on it?

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