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.
Showing 401–420 of 1,093 contributions · most-recent first
| Date | Debate & contribution | Words |
|---|---|---|
| 20 Oct 2025 | Electricity Infrastructure: Rural Communities “I pay tribute to the hon. Member for securing the debate. I gently remind him that there is an alternative to opposition: participation. In the Western Isles we have the highest level of community-owned wind farms in Britain: 22 MW, alleviating fuel poverty and powering community economics. Our council is ready to take…” energyenvironmentlocal-government | 170 |
| 15 Oct 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “Thank you all for coming in. I appreciate your time and your expertise. It is past half-time, but there are no oranges, I am afraid. Can we do a rewind just to pick up, Rachel, on an exchange you had with the Chair there about these non-commodity costs? You seem to be suggesting that we might be building too much infra…” | 65 |
| 15 Oct 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “That is good evidence. Thank you, all.” | 7 |
| 15 Oct 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “You hit on it there. Common to every question has been getting bills down and reducing the cost to consumers, but you guys are sitting there making more money than Scotland spends on education each year. Chris, your profits were £1.6 billion last year. EDF made £3 billion profit before taxes. ScottishPower is sitting m…” | 79 |
| 15 Oct 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “Get it right rather than get it fast—that is what you seem to be saying.” | 15 |
| 15 Oct 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “Chris, as a final word on this, the Data Communications Company is not here to defend itself. You are saying Ofgem needs to be muscled up to make it do its job. That relies on Ministers telling Ofgem to do its job, does it not?” | 45 |
| 15 Oct 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “David—as well as everyone else—the smart meter roll‑out has been pushed back. Is there any point in even thinking about mandatory smart meters if smart meters are installed but just do not work?” | 33 |
| 15 Oct 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “It works or it does not work.” | 7 |
| 15 Oct 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “What is that relationship with DCC, then, in trying to get the data to you? I mean, there is a smart meter there, but the broadband is not working to get the data to you. That is one of the points.” | 41 |
| 15 Oct 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “I have some granular questions on smart meters, which I might bring to you, Chris and David, because after high bills, the biggest complaint I get—I am sure other constituency MPs do as well—is about smart meter installation, how they are not installed or, when they are installed, they do not run. I have casework here …” | 109 |
| 15 Oct 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “I get your passion about social tariffs and trying to find customers who cannot pay, but you could save people a lot of money by reducing your bills.” | 28 |
| 14 Oct 2025 | Community Helipads: Rural Access “I thank the hon. Member for raising this issue. His situation is not unique; we have a similar one in the Western Isles, at the Stornoway hospital. The Scottish air ambulance helicopter is perfectly free to land at the hospital helipad, but the health board has had to set up an alternative site for the search and rescu…” healthtransportlocal-government | 141 |
| 13 Oct 2025 | Energy Profits Levy: North-east Scotland “I pay tribute to the hon. Lady for securing the debate. I share her passion for her constituents and their work in the North sea, because my constituents, over three generations, have done the same work, and I want to see people working in the North sea for another three generations. Does she accept that some 77,000 jo…” energyeconomy-jobsfiscal-policy | 218 |
| 10 Sept 2025 | Sustainable Aviation Fuel Industry “On the subject of aviation, the beautiful Isle of Barra airport in my constituency has had to cancel 14% of its flights in the last year on the beautiful beach runway. This is not, on the whole, due to bad weather or tides, but because the Brexiteering Tories withdrew us from the European satellite navigation system, w…” energyeconomy-jobstechnology | 97 |
| 10 Sept 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1212) “Thank you for coming in. It is good to see you again, Tom, after so many years. I have some questions following up on what Mike said about where small modular reactors can be built, but, Alastair, from a basic point of view, can they be built? Can this be done?” | 51 |
| 10 Sept 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1212) “Julia, is the money there to build them?” | 8 |
| 10 Sept 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1212) “Catherine, that makes it sound as if we will never have a nuclear district heating system or a nuclear steel plant, or anything like that.” | 25 |
| 10 Sept 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1212) “Rebecca and Catherine, as well as clean energy, we will need clean heat for industrial purposes. One of the applications of these small reactors might be to place them next to where we produce steel, pink hydrogen or whatever. Should EN-7 take all that into account, also taking into account what Mike has just said abou…” | 63 |
| 10 Sept 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1212) “Thank you all for coming in. We heard from the previous panel—from Alastair and Julia—about how this is can-do technology, how it can be done and the way it should be done. I guess the question is: can it be done safely? We have had some evidence and some scepticism that smaller advanced modular reactors will be safe o…” | 71 |
| 10 Sept 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1212) “One last question, Alastair. We have done “when” and “where”, but how quickly could we do this if you got the go-ahead?” | 22 |