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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
12 May 2025Topical Questions

T5. I welcome that the UK Government are to convene an urgent session of the UN Security Council this afternoon to discuss the food situation in Gaza. Will Ministers ensure that Dame Barbara Woodward takes a message from my constituents, including Mairi MacKinnon, Ian Stephen, Louise Scullion and Malcolm MacLean, who e

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7 May 2025Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 816)

Are people interested?

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7 May 2025Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 816)

Andrew, we know that it would work, but what are the big commercial and development challenges that you face to make this a reality?

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7 May 2025Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 816)

Leaning on Chris’s previous experience, lagoon technology is like a salmon net across a river rather than a bridge or a dam.

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7 May 2025Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 816)

Thank you all for coming in. It is either underwhelming or it is huge; it is billions or is it millions. How feasible is it? Sue, how confident are you that the technology exists for a tidal range lagoon?

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7 May 2025Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 816)

Athanasios, just quickly, because we are running out of time, could you sum up for us the risks and the potential benefits for the whole of the Severn estuary and for the UK as a whole from these tidal projects?

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7 May 2025Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 816)

Shaun, where exactly is the RSPB on this? You say that there is no problem in principle, but, when you write a drama, there is text and subtext—no problem in principle, but the subtext is “anywhere except here”.

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7 May 2025Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 816)

It sounds like this is why GB Energy was built.

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7 May 2025Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 816)

What do you need from the UK Government to get this commercial demonstration project into the lagoons? What two or three things do you need?

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7 May 2025Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 816)

Thank you all for coming in. It is great evidence. Tidal range technology is the missing part of the jigsaw in clean energy. If we could provide 3% to 5% of the UK’s energy needs with projects such as this and projects in Orkney, then so be it. It seems to be strangled by habitat regulations here. You have wrangled 28

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7 May 2025Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 816)

No rare birds will die.

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7 May 2025Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 816)

Somehow we can ascertain from that data that these projects are going to be harmful to wildlife. Are there rare species at stake? What is at stake? Is it species displacement or species extinction?

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7 May 2025Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 816)

I have a quick question on the data. Shaun, you said the data is from 2015.

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7 May 2025Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 816)

Is it a model for a Government Department?

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7 May 2025Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 816)

You say that it could be between 7 TWh and 21 TWh. Presumably, that is the scale.

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7 May 2025Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 816)

Andrew, you started where we are, with very little knowledge, but you do have knowledge now. Could anything that can be done on the Severn be done here on the Thames, on the Mersey or on the Clyde?

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7 May 2025Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 816)

I have a quick question on the data. Shaun, you said the data is from 2015.

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7 May 2025Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 816)

Are people interested?

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7 May 2025Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 816)

Andrew, we know that it would work, but what are the big commercial and development challenges that you face to make this a reality?

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7 May 2025Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 816)

Leaning on Chris’s previous experience, lagoon technology is like a salmon net across a river rather than a bridge or a dam.

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