Called-in Planning Decision: West Cumbria

Mr Speaker, thank you for your ruling earlier. I apologise to you and to the House. No discourtes...

I thank my right hon. Friend for the leadership he has shown on this matter, cutting through the ...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his comments. He draws attention to the importance of paying ...

I call the SNP spokesperson.

The decision has been condemned by the Chair of the Climate Change Committee. Chris Stark, chief ...

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his questions. He quotes a number of individuals and draw...

I speak as an ex-miner and a net zero champion in this place. I remember a time when the Labour p...

My hon. Friend makes an important point. The right hon. Gentleman’s comments are on the record in...

The Secretary of State is probably aware of the statement made yesterday by the Secretary-General...

Let me set aside specifically the decision here, where the inspector’s report speaks for itself—I...

I really welcome this news and the fact that the Secretary of State has found that he does agree ...

On this side of the House, we have had iron ladies, but there is no better champion of steel than...

In recent weeks, we have had the Minister for Energy, Clean Growth and Climate Change almost lite...

There are two separate points and the hon. Lady is absolutely right. There is both the operation ...

My right hon. Friend has been clear about the distinction between metallurgical coal and coal for...

Yes, and I am grateful to my hon. Friend for making that point. We have succeeded, in the past de...

I welcome this common-sense and economically sound decision. It is one that will create jobs, wil...

As ever, my right hon. Friend makes his case very eloquently. He is quite right to point out that...

Madam Deputy Speaker, you know me to be a biologist and an environmentalist—I should confess to t...

I am tempted to say that any tree that is hugged by my hon. Friend is a very lucky tree.

On...

The right hon. Member for Reading West (Alok Sharma), the former President of COP, says that 85% ...

The inspector makes it clear in his report that, by sourcing coal from this mine, there will be a...

Cumbria planning committee, after careful consideration, approved this planning application. The ...

My hon. Friend has a matchless knowledge of the planning process. Again, I urge all colleagues to...

This decision makes a travesty of the word “transition”. It is a full-blown backward step to more...

Again, I urge the hon. Lady, who I know takes environmental issue seriously, to look at the inspe...

Bassetlaw has a proud mining history. Along with many of my constituents, I praise my right hon. ...

My hon. Friend will know how rare it is that I quote from the European Commission approvingly. Ho...

The world is currently meeting in Montreal for COP15 to deal with the pressing climate and nature...

Again, I stress the importance of looking at what the inspector says. The hon. Gentleman quite ri...

Does my right hon. Friend agree that the evidence before the inquiry pointed to the fact that bla...

My hon. Friend makes a very important point. As the inspector notes, new alternative technologies...

This is a backwards step and hon. Friends have rightly laid out the regressive environmental impa...

I appreciate the hon. Lady’s position. If she will forgive me, I shall not be drawn into the ques...

The Opposition have no concern over European and other countries burning lignite to power their i...

Again, the 350-page report looks at all the evidence and the competing arguments before coming to...

The hon. Member for Bolton West (Chris Green) talks about the ongoing revival of coal mines. Not ...

The Government are investing in renewables, and the leadership that has been shown by the UK Gove...

I commend the Secretary of State on taking this bold decision, which will help to create hundreds...

My hon. Friend makes a very good point. Again, I refer back to my decision letter, in which I ack...

I think the Secretary of State has just admitted to my hon. Friend the Member for Bristol East (K...

I am grateful to the hon. Lady for making her point. Again, the inspector makes clear that, wheth...

I thank the Secretary of State very much for his comprehensive and detailed statement. Can he con...

I am very grateful to the hon. Gentleman for making all those points. On one level I am sorry to ...