Solar Arrays
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Alan.
I will start by making it clea...
Does my hon. Friend agree that there are a tremendous number of farmers in the south-west at the ...
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I agree with my hon. Friend. The collapse in farming incomes is extraordinary and both of us know...
Yes, it is hard to believe, colleagues.
By that time, a whole generation of children will h...
I understand my hon. Friend’s point, and I will respond to most of her points when I sum up. Howe...
I thank the Minister for his response, and I quite agree, but if we look at the statistics from N...
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Alan. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Me...
I just want to volunteer a thought about some of the alternatives; Hinkley Point power station is...
I was going to come to the alternatives, but I thank the hon. Lady for making that point.
I...
Before the suspension, I was just about to conclude my contribution.
We must ensure that lo...
I thank the hon. Member for Totnes (Dr Wollaston) for initiating this debate.
I think that ...
I was intrigued by the hon. Lady’s comments earlier, when she said that she would prefer to have ...
I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention, but of course my comment was on the beauty or ot...
The hon. Lady is obviously unaware that there are two facilities—one in the constituency of my ho...
My understanding is that Michael Eavis is the largest private provider, but if I am incorrect, I ...
How does the project overcome the common difficulty that people must buy shares to benefit from i...
As I understand it—I hope to become a member of the co-operative—the threshold is £250, a moderat...
Get some nuclear power stations.
No, that is throwing one’s hands in the air. There is an opportunity for people to consider how t...
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Alan. I echo my colleagues in congratulati...
I have shown my hon. Friend an advert from Farmers Weekly. Does he agree that it verges on being ...
I suggest that the grass and the wonderful flowers in the picture my hon. Friend has shown me wer...
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship this afternoon, Sir Alan. I congratulate the ho...
Does the hon. Lady agree that the most appropriate siting of solar energy panels is on the roofs ...
I thank the hon. Member for her intervention. I will go through all her points in my contribution...
We all accept that that is the ideal, but I am afraid the reality is that local planners often fe...
I thank the hon. Member for her intervention, and I will respond to that point in a moment.
I do not know whether the hon. Lady heard my speech, but I have asked the Minister to confirm tha...
I thank the hon. Lady for her contribution. I do not represent a rural constituency, but I have s...
This has been an interesting and worthwhile debate, although I was slightly surprised at the inte...
I do not know whether the Minister will come to my point about looking again at the amount of sub...
I will, but I am afraid I will have to disappoint my hon. Friend.
I am on record as stating...
I had the pleasure of an invitation from the all-party parliamentary group for the roofing indust...
I have thought of my hon. Friend in many ways, but I have never really thought of her as a roofer...
Does the Minister accept that spacing is also an issue? Where panels are very densely packed toge...
Absolutely spot-on. This goes to the heart of the problem and is why we need, and will bring forw...
My right hon. Friend says that he will bring forward proposals in the autumn. May I reinforce to ...
I do take on board that sense of urgency. My hon. Friend will be pleased to know that the DCLG—we...
I would like to draw the Minister’s attention to a subject that he knows is one of my favourites....
The hon. Lady makes a very valid point. Let me reassure her: Ofgem does provide additional fundin...
The difficulty is that all of us here are experiencing problems in areas that are not areas of ou...
I do not want to be drawn too far down that road, but there are clearly planning issues. Planning...
That concludes our debate today. Have a safe journey home and a good weekend.
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