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Jonathan Reynolds's Climate-related Tweets, Speeches & Votes

We've found the following climate-related tweets, speeches & votes by Jonathan Reynolds in the last 90 days

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• 16 Nov 2024: Tweet

  Tackling climate change is a huge economic opportunity for Britain. This government is working to ensure every community feels the benefit of the new investments and jobs that will come with cutting our emissions. Decarbonisation must never mean deindustrialisation. https://x.com/jreynoldsMP/status/1857720203846582424/video/1 [Source]

• 15 Nov 2024: Tweet

  Tackling climate change is a huge economic opportunity for Britain. This government is working to ensure every community feels the benefit of the new investments and jobs that will come with cutting our emissions. Decarbonisation must never mean reindustrialisation. https://x.com/jreynoldsMP/status/1857353420471992752/video/1 [Source]

• 6 Nov 2024: Parliamentary Speech

  Ørsted, a global leader in green energy, stated that the main reason it was investing more in the UK was because of our green energy targets. It recognised us as

  Full debate: Budget Resolutions

• 23 Oct 2024: Parliamentary Speech

  Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult (OREC)

  Full debate: Regulatory Partnership for Growth Fund

• 14 Oct 2024: Parliamentary Speech

  To unlock this growth, the strategy will focus on tackling barriers in our highest potential growth-driving sectors. In doing so, the industrial strategy will create a pro-business environment and support high-potential clusters across the country. It will also support our net zero, regional, and economic resilience and security aims. We are prepared to tackle the critical issues head-on and make the choices required to kickstart investment.

  Full debate: The UK’s Modern Industrial Strategy

• 11 Sep 2024: Parliamentary Speech

  Steel is essential to delivering on our net zero goals and building the next generation of green infrastructure, and I know that Labour Members are passionate about that. That is why, under our steel strategy, we intend to use the Procurement Act 2023 to drive economic growth and account for social value in the things that the Government buy and the projects we commission. Work is already under way to increase the role of steel as we build our manufacturing base.

  Full debate: Port Talbot Transition Project

• 11 Sep 2024: Parliamentary Speech

  The Government know this is the start of a journey towards a greener future for the steelworks in Port Talbot—reducing the site’s carbon emissions by as much as 85% a year. However, decarbonisation should not mean deindustrialisation. As part of the agreement the Government will be working with Tata Steel over the coming weeks and months to consider business cases for further investment and job creation opportunities.

  Steel is essential to delivering on our net zero goals and building the next generation of green infrastructure, which Members know this Government are passionate about. It is why, as part of our steel strategy, we intend to use the new procurement Act to drive economic growth and account for social value in the things Government buy and the projects we commission. This work is already under way to increase the role of steel as we build our manufacturing base.

  Full debate: Tata Steel and UK Steel Strategy

• 5 Sep 2024: Parliamentary Speech

  I thank my hon. Friend for his question. Teesside is a hugely exciting part of the country. There is so much to be proud of there, and so much to be excited about for the future, because of its advantages and the offer that it can make. He asks about green jobs. I have said many times that decarbonisation cannot be deindustrialisation; that is very important. We must recognise that the policy mix that we have inherited is not the right one for delivering decarbonisation, so changes will have to be made. For any business at any level, skills and access to talent in the labour market will always be the foundational issue. We work very closely with our colleagues in the Department for Education. The creation of Skills England and a better link between the skills system and immigration are key parts of that. Moreover, changing the apprenticeship levy to the growth and skills levy, which we co-designed with business, shows that we are addressing this agenda in a comprehensive way for the step change that is required to make our policy a success.

  Full debate: Oral Answers to Questions

  My hon. Friend is not a new colleague, and her advocacy of the automotive sector, particularly given her constituency interest in Stellantis, is well known and welcome. This was a challenging area, particularly for her constituency, that we inherited. The previous Government had neglected engagement with the business. Since we took office, we have had extensive engagement with Carlos Tavares and the Stellantis team. The journey that the automotive sector has to go on for decarbonisation presents challenges, and there is a challenging picture across all of Europe, but the neglect of the previous Government has ended. Not only am I closely engaged on the issue, as are my ministerial team, but so is the Secretary of State for Transport, particularly in relation to the zero emission vehicle mandate—a key area of policy for the business. We will continue that work, and I will continue to keep my hon. Friend, and any other local MPs, updated, as we have done to date.

  Full debate: Oral Answers to Questions

  I am grateful to the right hon. Member for that question. The policy to which he refers—the zero emission vehicle mandate—and its penalties as we ramp up to the phasing out of petrol and diesel vehicles is actually a Department for Transport policy of the previous Government. We supported it, because there is no point in having an objective to phase out petrol and diesel vehicles without a corresponding ramping up of regulation to do that.

  Full debate: Oral Answers to Questions