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We've found the following climate-related tweets, speeches & votes by Bridget Phillipson

• 9 Dec 2024: Parliamentary Speech

  I agree that there are lots of job opportunities in the years to come in clean technology, green jobs and much more besides. That is why we have started work very quickly to begin the process of legislating to establish Skills England, which already exists in shadow form. It has already undertaken an audit of what more is required. I know that there are lots of fantastic new jobs out there connected to construction and engineering that align very much with our drive towards net zero. I am more than happy to ensure that the hon. Lady gets a meeting on the topic.

  Full debate: Oral Answers to Questions

• 01 Dec 2023: Tweet

  RT @DavidLammy: Excellent to be at #COP28 with @Keir_Starmer and @Ed_Miliband. The @Conservatives have damaged Britain’s reputation on th… [Source]

• 01 Dec 2023: Tweet

  RT @Keir_Starmer: The Tories see net zero as a device to divide - for Labour it’s an opportunity to make working people better off. Our cl… [Source]

• 28 Nov 2023: Tweet

  RT @Ed_Miliband: Success at COP28 depends on global leadership. But the UK’s leading climate expert has described the Tories’ climate del… [Source]

• 08 Nov 2023: Tweet

  RT @jreynoldsMP: Labour backs our fantastic steelworkers. We cannot allow Britain to lose the ability to make primary steel. Decarbonisati… [Source]

• 30 Oct 2023: Tweet

  RT @Ed_Miliband: Businesses and investors across Britain are sounding the alarm about the government’s retreat from net zero If the Kings… [Source]

• 25 Sep 2023: Tweet

  RT @Ed_Miliband: The British people want a plan to cut energy bills, boost wages, and tackle the climate crisis. That is why Rishi Sunak'… [Source]

• 20 Sep 2023: Tweet

  RT @Ed_Miliband: Rishi Sunak's panicked net zero speech is crumbling in the face of opposition from industry, the public, and his own MPs.… [Source]

• 29 Jul 2023: Tweet

  RT @Ed_Miliband: The cost of living crisis can only be beaten by tackling the climate crisis. That’s what Labour’s Green Prosperity Plan w… [Source]

• 16 Mar 2023: Tweet

  RT @RachelReevesMP: I am optimistic about the future. I believe Britain has the potential to galvanise green energy and get ahead in the g… [Source]

• 28 Oct 2022: Tweet

  RT @SkyNews: Sir Keir Starmer says Rishi Sunak not attending COP27 is 'a failure of leadership'. The PM says he feels it is right to focus… [Source]

• 19 Oct 2022: Vote

  Ban on Fracking for Shale Gas Bill - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 25 Jul 2022: Tweet

  RT @jreynoldsMP: The @uklabour plan for growth: ???? Public Investment - our Climate Investment Pledge ???? Reform - replacing business rates… [Source]

• 19 Jul 2022: Tweet

  RT @GMB: 'They're falling over each other to run away from it.' Shadow Secretary for climate change @Ed_Miliband tells @edballs that he 'f… [Source]

• 03 Jul 2022: Tweet

  RT @jreynoldsMP: Labour will re-energise our economy with good jobs and investment to meet our climate objectives We will create 30,000 j… [Source]

• 03 Jul 2022: Tweet

  RT @jreynoldsMP: Labour’s plans will bring down bills, create jobs and help achieve net zero A Labour government will re-energise Britain’… [Source]

• 16 May 2022: Parliamentary Speech

  We would go further to lock in the gains of a recovery programme for the long term, with a national excellence programme to drive up standards in schools, because every child deserves to go to a school with high expectations and high achievements. There would be thousands upon thousands of new teachers in subjects that have shortages right now, because every child deserves to be taught maths and physics by people who love their subject and to be introduced to a love of sport, music, art and drama; a skills commission, because every young person needs to leave education ready for work and ready for life; careers guidance in every school and work experience for every child, because each of us deserves to succeed at work, and Labour believes that the Government have a role to play in making that happen; and a curriculum in which we teach our children not just the past that they will inherit, but the future they will build, and in which they learn about the challenge of net zero and the climate emergency that we face.

  Full debate: Making Britain the Best Place to Grow Up and Grow Old

• 10 Mar 2022: Tweet

  RT @Ed_Miliband: For energy security, to get bills down, and tackle the climate crisis it is time for a green energy sprint. Today I've be… [Source]

• 28 Feb 2022: Tweet

  RT @RachelReevesMP: We need more zero-emission buses, the government promised more zero-emission buses - so why are suitable British manufa… [Source]

• 18 Dec 2021: Tweet

  RT @NickTorfaen: The UK Government’s “list of benefits” of the Australia trade deal makes no mention of climate targets or the impact of re… [Source]

• 13 Nov 2021: Tweet

  RT @RachelReevesMP: "COP26 shows there are many businesses who want to take action on climate now. "Government must now step up to meet t… [Source]

• 2 Nov 2021: Parliamentary Speech

  Labour has set out our climate investment pledge not only to get us on track with our commitment, but to avoid greater costs in the future and to ensure that we can seize opportunities, too. That means developing our domestic hydrogen sector, greening our steel industry, building the cycle lanes and infrastructure, creating new jobs to retrofit homes, ensuring that electric vehicles and their batteries are manufactured here, and that all our families can enjoy the local environment, clean air and open space. We are ambitious for Britain to lead the world with the jobs and technologies of the future, creating prosperity and opportunity in every corner of our country. Under Labour, we will work with business and trade unions to make this a reality.

  Labour would tax fairly, spend wisely and get the economy firing on all cylinders. We would cut VAT on heating bills and help to insulate homes. We would back our world-leading industries, and buy, make and sell more here in Britain. We would scrap business rates and replace them with a much fairer system that is fit for the modern world. We would secure our transition to net zero with well paid, highly skilled jobs in every corner of our country. We would not clobber working people and British businesses while online giants get away without paying their fair share. We need a Budget to ease the urgent pressure on families and businesses—a Budget to seize new opportunities and to unleash our country’s potential. We have a proud history but I believe that our best days are ahead of us. The Chancellor has made the wrong choices throughout this Budget; the Conservatives have made the wrong choices throughout the past decade. Our country deserves better.

  Full debate: Budget Resolutions

• 29 Oct 2021: Tweet

  The Chancellor didn’t mention climate once in a Budget speech delivered days before the make-or-break COP26 climate summit. The Conservatives have no plan to get us to net zero. Labour has one to build the high-wage, high-skilled jobs of the future. https://x.com/bbcquestiontime/status/1453844130178736129/video/1 [Source]

• 29 Oct 2021: Tweet

  Labour wanted a Budget for a brighter and better future. A plan for growth. A plan for the climate crisis. A plan for public services. Me for the @DailyMirror on the Budget we needed and didn’t get???? https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/rishi-sunaks-budget-no-inspiration-25325203 [Source]

• 26 Oct 2021: Parliamentary Speech

  As well as knowing what the Government will be doing, we also know what they intend not to do. We know that they will not be investing in carbon capture and underground storage in Scotland, and we know that they will not be match-funding the Scottish Government’s £500 million just transition fund. Yet the Treasury has raked in some £350 billion of oil revenues over the decades, so why is the Minister’s Department now turning its back on Scotland?

  Leaving aside tired clichés about our attitude to Scotland, which I am afraid is all we ever get from SNP Members, we are of course a Government committed to the success of the whole of the United Kingdom. The Budget will contain within it many things that reflect the major benefits of the Union for Scotland just as much as for England, Wales and Northern Ireland. As a proud British citizen, I would not accept the sense of what the hon. Gentleman says. On carbon capture, utilisation and storage, the Scottish project remains the first reserve, as he will know. We intend to take this project forward, alongside a flourishing North sea oil and gas sector, offshore wind and all the things that will go together to reflect the £30 billion-worth of commitments made as part of our net zero strategy.

  Full debate: Budget: Pre-announcement of Provisions

• 20 Oct 2021: Tweet

  RT @RachelReevesMP: We cannot be complacent with climate change or let costs from it spiral down the line. That's why Labour's Climate Inv… [Source]

• 20 Oct 2021: Tweet

  Prices are rising and bills are soaring. Our planet faces a climate emergency. With our Climate Investment Pledge, Labour would insulate homes to keep bills down, tackle emissions, and create the clean jobs of the future. https://x.com/bphillipsonMP/status/1450776582377836545/video/1 [Source]

• 13 Oct 2021: Tweet

  RT @UKLabour: The climate emergency is a real threat. We must take action against it, now. #COP26 cannot be a greenwash summit. Here's L… [Source]

• 13 Oct 2021: Tweet

  RT @Ed_Miliband: We cannot let Cop26 be the greenwash summit. It’s time for the Prime Minister to get off his sun lounger, be a statesman a… [Source]

• 04 Oct 2021: Tweet

  RT @RachelReevesMP: Not one mention of climate, net zero or COP26 from Rishi Sunak in his speech today. https://t.co/oKbUwSwspi [Source]

• 03 Oct 2021: Tweet

  Tackling the climate emergency with the investment Britain needs. Building an economy that works for every corner of our country Making sure people have the skills they need to succeed. Fair pay agreements across our economy to push wages up. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/video/2021/sep/27/rachel-reeves-i-will-be-uks-first-green-chancellor-video [Source]

• 08 Aug 2021: Tweet

  A global pandemic, tens of thousands of livelihoods at risk, and a climate crisis that’s getting worse. So what’s the PM doing? Picking fights and threatening to sack the chancellor. He needs to get a grip on the real challenges facing this country. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-sunak-row-labour-b1899074.html [Source]

• 22 Jun 2021: Tweet

  RT @RachelReevesMP: There is no time to waste when it comes to tackling #climatebreakdown. Today – I called on Rishi Sunak to hardwire net… [Source]

• 07 Jun 2021: Vote

  Advanced Research and Invention Agency Bill — New Clause 1 - Human Rights Abuses - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 26 May 2021: Vote

  Environment Bill — New Clause 24 - Prohibition on burning of peat in upland areas - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 9 Mar 2021: Parliamentary Speech

  The Chair of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee, my hon. Friend the Member for Bristol North West (Darren Jones), was right to emphasise that we need to see a focus on growth as part of a transition to net zero. We should have seen that joined-up approach to support growth in every part of our country, with decisions based on genuine need, not narrow, partisan advantage.

  Full debate: Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation

• 26 Jan 2021: Parliamentary Speech

  This year, the UK Government have a chance to show global leadership on the climate emergency

  as the host of the UN climate change conference in Glasgow. Green gilts will be a vital part of the transition to a clean economy. Last year, the Chancellor promised to launch the first ones this year. Will he tell us when and why not yet?

  Full debate: Environmentally Sustainable Economic Growth

• 13 Jan 2021: Vote

  Financial Services Bill — Schedule 2 - Prudential regulation of FCA investment firms - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 16 Nov 2020: Vote

  Pension Schemes Bill [Lords] — Clause 124 - Climate change risk - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 12 Oct 2020: Vote

  Agriculture Bill — After Clause 42 - Contribution of agriculture and associated land use to climate change targets - Pro-climate vote: No - Their vote: No

• 29 Sep 2020: Vote

  United Kingdom Internal Market Bill — New Clause 6 - Economic development: climate and nature emergency impact statement - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 8 Jul 2020: Parliamentary Speech

  A plan on job creation should have moved in lockstep with our commitment to tackling the climate emergency, but again, Ministers have fallen short. The recent Committee on Climate Change report laid bare how badly the UK is falling behind, and with this package, we continue to do so. The French Government have promised €15 billion for a green recovery. The German Government—€40 billion. The UK Government—£3 billion so far. Tackling the climate emergency should have been at the heart of the Government’s economic response. Decisive action to drive towards net zero goes hand in hand with job creation, providing upskilling, training and new opportunities, yet the Government’s approach in this area is sadly lacking.

  Full debate: The Economy

• 2 Jul 2020: Parliamentary Speech

  (b) assessing how the Enterprise Investment Scheme is furthering efforts to mitigate climate change, and any differences in the benefit of this funding in respect of—

  This amendment would require the Chancellor of the Exchequer to analyse the impact of the existing EIS and the changes proposed in Clause 36 in terms of impact on the economy and geographical reach; to assess the EIS’s support for efforts to mitigate climate change; and to evaluate the Scheme’s lessons for the encouragement of UK Government-backed venture capital funds in the devolved nations.

  Full debate: Finance Bill

  The Finance Bill is a series of tweaks and corrections. Rather than raising revenue, it extends and expands tax reliefs and tinkers with, rather than ends, the entrepreneurs’ relief. Netflix, Amazon Prime and other high-grossing streaming services will be unaffected by the digital services tax, for all we welcome its introduction in its limited scope. As it stands, the digital services tax will create up to £440 million in annual revenue, when the UK in fact loses £1.3 billion in corporation tax to five of the biggest UK tech firms each year. That is £1.3 billion that could go towards helping schools to enable children to return safely in September, towards more nurses and more doctors, towards creating new jobs, towards decarbonising our economy and towards funding more public health research, which this pandemic has shown we desperately need.

  Full debate: Finance Bill

• 05 Feb 2020: Vote

  Transport - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 25 Jun 2019: Vote

  Delegated Legislation — Value Added Tax - Pro-climate vote: No - Their vote: No

• 06 Sep 2016: Vote

  Finance Bill — VAT on Installation of Energy Saving Materials - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 26 Oct 2015: Vote

  Finance Bill (Ways and Means) (Payment of Corporation Tax) — Chapter 5 — Supplementary provisions - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 08 Sep 2015: Vote

  Bill Presented — Devolution (London) Bill — Clause 45 — CCL: removal of exemption for electricity from renewable sources - Pro-climate vote: No - Their vote: No

• 04 Dec 2013: Vote

  Recall of Elected Representatives — Schedule 4 — Application and modification of emissions limit duty - Pro-climate vote: No - Their vote: No

• 04 Jun 2013: Vote

  Energy Bill — Clause 10 — Direction to offer contract - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 04 Jun 2013: Vote

  Energy Bill — Clause 1 — Decarbonisation - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 03 Jun 2013: Vote

  Communities and Local Government — Clause 42 — Duty not to exceed annual carbon dioxide emissions limit - Pro-climate vote: No - Their vote: Aye

• 17 Oct 2012: Vote

  Relationship, Drug and Alcohol Education (Curriculum) — New Clause 22 — Interpretation of the green purposes: duty to assess impact on the Climate Change Act 2008 - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 11 Jun 2012: Vote

  Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye