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• 18 Mar 2025: Parliamentary Speech

  7. What recent estimate his Department has made of the cost of decarbonising the electricity grid by 2030. ( 903235 )

  Full debate: Electricity Grid Decarbonisation

• 3 Mar 2025: Parliamentary Speech

  This measure is vying with the national insurance contribution change to be the most absurd measure. I think that it wins by a head. The Prime Minister says that we must have energy security, and the Climate Change Committee that says we will still need oil and gas for 25% of our energy needs if we meet net zero in 2050, but the Government will have no more licences. We will lose tens of thousands of jobs, tens of billions of pounds in tax, and the engineering capability that we need for the transition. It is absurd on every single possible front.

  My hon. Friend is 100% correct. I think we all know that the architect of much of this is the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, who takes a rather fundamentalist approach. He wants to cover farmland with solar farms, and wants to undermine our oil and gas sector. We on the Opposition Benches disagree. It was the previous Government who introduced the levy, but that was to tackle extraordinary profits at an extraordinary time. The revenue helped to keep energy bills lower for all our constituents, but now the Government are ratcheting up the levy and seem to want to tax North sea exploration out of existence. This is just a further example of the Government’s ill-conceived energy policy. GB Energy is a net zero vanity project that will not generate any energy or be an energy supplier. It certainly will not deliver £300 off bills.

  Full debate: Finance Bill

• 12 Feb 2025: Tweet

  Pleased to officially open the College of West Anglia’s new Green Skills Centre in King’s Lynn – a major investment in training locally inc. retro fitting, renewable energy, EV maintenance, drone ops for building surveying and join @DuraEnergy ???? @WestNorfolkBC Mayor & others https://x.com/jamesowild/status/1889739762577146324/video/1 [Source]

• 30 Jan 2025: Parliamentary Speech

  The Government are committed to reaching net zero by 2050. As we make progress to decarbonise, we must ensure that the effect of our efforts is not undermined by carbon leakage. I am sure that hon. Members know this, but for the benefit of the Committee, let me define carbon leakage: it is the movement of production and its associated emissions from one country to another to avoid higher decarbonisation efforts and costs. The best solution to carbon leakage risk would be international co-ordination on decarbonisation and carbon pricing. However, many countries do not yet have domestic carbon pricing mechanisms. Consequently, introducing the UK CBAM will reduce the risk of carbon leakage by placing a carbon price on carbon-intensive goods imported into the UK from 2027.

  Full debate: Finance Bill (Fourth sitting)

• 01 Dec 2024: Tweet

  Labour’s quickly approved big solar farms & wants more onshore wind. Here’s a chart from my time in then Dept. for Energy & Climate Change on footprint of different energy generation. We need to modernise generation & the grid but not by ignoring rural communities #nuclear https://x.com/jamesowild/status/1863315280451051612/photo/1 [Source]

• 27 Nov 2024: Tweet

  RT @jamesowild: Labour signed ???????? up to a #COP commitment to invest $300 billion a year in climate finance. How much is ???????? taxpayer on hoo… [Source]

• 26 Nov 2024: Tweet

  Labour signed ???????? up to a #COP commitment to invest $300 billion a year in climate finance. How much is ???????? taxpayer on hook for? Energy Secretary has no idea - agree a big number and then work out who pays is government’s approach ???? Another uncosted climate commitment. https://x.com/jamesowild/status/1861470148235776183/video/1 [Source]

• 19 Oct 2022: Vote

  Ban on Fracking for Shale Gas Bill - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: No

• 8 Feb 2022: Parliamentary Speech

  What a load of nonsense. The clue is in the word used by whoever drafted the motion, “global”. Other countries face the same challenges from the rise in wholesale gas prices that we are facing. Some 80% of the increase in the energy price cap here comes from wholesale prices. The motion is silent on Labour’s moratorium on nuclear power, which meant that our nuclear fleet has not been replaced as rapidly as it should have been. I was advising the then Energy Minister in the then Department of Energy and Climate Change when the deal for Hinkley Point C was being negotiated. That power station is on track to open in 2026. With the financing legislation passed in this House recently, we can unlock further investment in the new nuclear we need.

  Full debate: Cost of Living and Food Insecurity

• 13 Dec 2021: Vote

  Subsidy Control Bill — Schedule 1 - The subsidy control principles - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: No

• 3 Nov 2021: Parliamentary Speech

  The plans put forward by the trust will eliminate RAAC from the hospital, but it is not just about replacing defective buildings. It is also an opportunity to transform and modernise local health care, integrating primary, community, mental health, acute, social care and third sectors in a health and wellbeing village. It will also promote sustainability, using modern methods of construction and net-zero principles, incorporating the digital-first approach.

  Full debate: Hospital Building Programme

• 07 Jun 2021: Vote

  Advanced Research and Invention Agency Bill — New Clause 1 - Human Rights Abuses - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: No

• 26 May 2021: Vote

  Environment Bill — New Clause 24 - Prohibition on burning of peat in upland areas - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: No

• 13 Jan 2021: Vote

  Financial Services Bill — Schedule 2 - Prudential regulation of FCA investment firms - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: No

• 08 Dec 2020: Vote

  Delegated Legislation — Financial Assistance to Industry - Pro-climate vote: No - Their vote: Aye

• 16 Nov 2020: Vote

  Pension Schemes Bill [Lords] — Clause 124 - Climate change risk - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: No

• 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: Aye

• 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: No

• 05 Feb 2020: Vote

  Transport - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: No

• 29 Jan 2020: Parliamentary Speech

  The people in North West Norfolk supported our manifesto commitments to tackle climate change and help countries receiving development aid to become more self-sufficient. What steps is my hon. Friend taking to ensure that the aid budget, through CDC, is invested in forestry projects in Africa and elsewhere, both to protect the environment and to help reduce poverty?

  Full debate: Oral Answers to Questions