Planning Policy and Wind Turbines (South-West)
It is an enormous pleasure and privilege to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Pritchard, as well ...
I congratulate my hon. and learned Friend on having secured such an important debate. In the prev...
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My hon. Friend makes an extremely good point. I did indeed represent those parts of what are now ...
Before I call other colleagues to speak, may I tell them that an hon. Member approached the Chair...
It is a great pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Pritchard.
I thank my hon. and ...
The hon. Gentleman is making an interesting argument, saying that wind turbines are not effective...
My argument is about whether such an amount in subsidy—basically, from those who pay energy bills...
Does my hon. Friend share my concern that it is obscene, looking at the Government’s own figures ...
My hon. Friend is right. If that figure of 58% by 2020 is correct—I have no reason to doubt him—i...
My hon. Friend is making a powerful case. On the visual impact of turbines, I do not want to get ...
My hon. Friend talks about a mast that is 120 metres high; in real money that is 400 feet, which ...
I support microgeneration: a single turbine in a farm or business that provides power to that bus...
My hon. Friend raises an interesting point because speculative single turbine applications, espec...
I congratulate the hon. and learned Member for Torridge and West Devon (Mr Cox) on securing this ...
The hon. Gentleman will be aware that there are separation distances in Scotland and Wales. Does ...
The point I am making is that a separation distance, in itself, does not take into consideration ...
Most of my constituents would not want to risk loads of turbines being put up just to work out th...
I understand that the hon. Gentleman argues for the precautionary principle, which is not support...
I wanted to answer the hon. Gentleman’s question about evidence of an effect on house prices. A s...
I thank the hon. and learned Gentleman for that intervention, but I was rather hoping that in loo...
The debate and the issue are hugely important. I live in Montgomeryshire, which is a long way fro...
Does my hon. Friend agree that one of the other baleful effects of the proliferation of applicati...
I absolutely agree with my hon. and learned Friend on that issue. In 2004, I was thought to be a ...
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Pritchard, and to respond to an interesting...
Does the hon. Gentleman agree with the words of the Leader of the Opposition, who, when Energy Se...
The hon. Gentleman tempts me to comment on something that I would have to see in context. The voi...
Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
I am very short of time.
Government Members have today described their own Government’s app...
Order. Just to be helpful to the shadow Minister, given that he has three minutes left only, give...
Mr Pritchard, you have anticipated my next remark, which is, “Let me turn specifically to wind en...
Order. The shadow Minister is taking the time to respond. Let us have the courtesy to listen.
...Government Members seemed keen a moment ago to hear my response, although they may of course not ...
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Pritchard. I congratulate my hon. and learn...
Will my hon. Friend address three specific points? First, does he agree that the document of July...
I have 12 minutes. I heard all those points when they were made in my hon. and learned Friend’s i...
My hon. and learned Friend the Member for Torridge and West Devon (Mr Cox) raised the fundamental...
I reassure Members that I will answer every question that they have asked, but I have just had an...