Speeches by Crichton.

“Thank you all.”

“Joanne, to pick up on what you said about your personal experience, as well as your professional experience, all the heat pumps in the world make no difference if you are losing energy through your windows, doors and walls. Is there a risk with the Warm Homes Plan of underplaying that fabric-first approach of making su…”

“Indeed. You mentioned something earlier, Brenda, about people paying 14p per unit for their storage heater, yet the middle-class, upper-class family with a Tesla are paying only 7p. What needs to happen to even up that market?”

“Thank you all.”

“Brenda, you have the last word.”

“Brenda, you have the last word.”

“T4. When it comes to the rising cost of living, may I ask the Chancellor to look again at the rural fuel relief scheme? The scheme is meant to give a 5p discount per litre on petrol and diesel in specific island rural communities, but I have checked and found that, in Stornoway in my constituency, petrol is 138.9p toda…”

“I thank the Chancellor for her statement, for her support for the armed forces, and for acknowledging the anxiety of constituents abroad. Closer to home—at home, in fact—half of my constituents in Na h-Eileanan an Iar outside the town of Stornoway rely on heating oil to heat their homes. They face great uncertainty, wi…”

“Are there any international lessons of comparators or does this industry work the same way globally? Is there anything we can learn from existing sites in the UK or abroad?”

“Is that something we should look out for here?”

“What effect does that have on the workforce, workers and their families, and on host communities? What can be done about it?”

“Mark, do you want to come in here?”

“Understood. Mark, when you were responding to Mel earlier, you talked about a financial lull in the sector. What can be done to incentivise private money to come in so that you have a consistent flow all the way through?”

“That is one of the biggest resentments of host communities, though, isn’t it? The money flies in on Monday and flies out on a Thursday to go and live either internationally or in London or far away from the host community. What can we do to stop that?”

“Sue, you must see that pattern as well among your members who work in one place but live in another place. Certainly we know Scottish workers who are going south every week and coming back.”

“Thank you all for coming in. Zion, I am interested in what you said there about the loudest voices are often not from the host community, they are from people who have come in—you seemed to say—and from holiday home owners. In fact you might have been one of these yourself; your story is quite interesting. You went fro…”

“Thank you all for coming in and for your evidence. Before I move on to my own questions, I will pick up on what Mel was saying about skills, particularly in Scotland where we have Torness and Hunterston running down. Perhaps, Sue, you are best placed to give us a picture of what happens to that workforce and what happe…”

“David, you mentioned earlier that there were two kinds of countries that do nuclear, those that build and those that buy. With SMRs and advanced module reactors, some of that will be bought off the shelf, I am guessing.”

“On some evidence we heard earlier, there is a Monday to Thursday economy. Do you see that in both your areas?”

“Will the jobs be here in the UK or will they be international jobs?”