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We've found the following climate-related tweets, speeches & votes by Tony Vaughan

• 13 Nov 2024: Parliamentary Speech

  My constituency of Folkestone and Hythe has incredible potential for a thriving vocational education and training system. It has strengths in the creative industries, independent retail, tourism and hospitality, as well as green energy and nuclear decommissioning. We are home to the Little Cheyne Court wind farm and the former Dungeness nuclear power station. However, the potential for a technical education system to supply those industries, and others, with skilled workers in both Folkestone and Hythe and the UK as a whole remains untapped. In 2022-23, there were 677 apprenticeship starts in Folkestone and Hythe, but only five in the leisure, tourism and travel sector, despite the size of that sector. And despite the significant number of regeneration projects in Folkestone and Hythe, the number of apprenticeship starts in construction, planning and the built environment fell by 49% in 2022-23 compared with the previous year.

  On future policy development, can the Minister provide more detail on the timeline for when we can expect the different phases of development of Skills England? I would also be grateful to know how the Government plan to align Invest 2035 with their post-16 education strategy. Both those strategies require prioritisation, so what sectors do the Government plan to focus on to drive up the number of apprenticeship starts? Are there any other areas of education and skills policy that the Government would like to devolve to local economies rather than combined authorities? For example, there is no combined authority in Kent. What plans do the Government have to ensure more apprenticeship starts in the industries of the future, such as artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, green energy and new nuclear?

  Full debate: Educational Opportunities

• 24 Jul 2024: Parliamentary Speech

  Folkestone and Hythe today is a cultural hub. We have arts festivals, comedy, theatre, open studios, open gardens, the Folkestone Music Town initiative and live music to suit every taste. The Royal Gurkha regiment is based in the constituency, and we have one of the largest Nepalese communities in the UK. It is hard to beat a Nepalese curry from Folkstone. The constituency has around 20 miles of beautiful coastline, from the border with Dover down to the Kent-Sussex border near Camber. It is little wonder that Folkstone and Hythe is a tourist hotspot, a creative and digital magnet, and a place to find solitude and peace. We also have a large windfarm in Romney Marsh, which was opened by the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, my right hon. Friend the Member for Doncaster North (Ed Miliband) in 2009. It was a privilege to visit it with him earlier this month, following his announcement about dropping the ban on onshore wind.

  Full debate: Education and Opportunity

• 19 Jul 2024: Tweet

  @Jennife56904102 We need to look at all options. Waste is stored safely. Most people accept that renewables alone will not meet national and regional energy demand in the short term. Given the climate emergency we are facing, we have to crack on. That is why Labour is pressing for all non-carbon… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1814237445279424649

• 11 Jul 2024: Tweet

  Thanks to @Ed_Miliband - Minister for Energy Security & Net Zero - for coming to #RomneyMarsh today where we met the @RWE_UK team & discussed wind, solar, new nuclear & clean power by 2030. With homegrown power, we’ll keep bills down, create good jobs & tackle climate change ???? https://twitter.com/anthonymv1/status/1811488085949186359/video/1 [Source]

• 21 Jul 2023: Tweet

  @TartanKentLady @lizmcshane @FH4Labour @Keir_Starmer Hi there. My point was about how the issues facing rural and town areas can be answered by Labour. And on other issues too- Workers rights Bill, green energy company, abolishing Rwanda etc etc etc - these are real alternatives to the current awful Tory government. [Source]

• 07 Dec 2022: Tweet

  Why not green investment & green jobs in the same region ***and zero CO2 emissions***? Because its the Tories! Coal is absolutely NOT the answer. UK’s first new coalmine for 30 years gets go-ahead in Cumbria https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/07/uk-first-new-coalmine-for-30-years-gets-go-ahead-in-cumbria?CMP=share_btn_tw [Source]

• 20 Nov 2022: Tweet

  Also worth looking at this map from last June (from this article: https://shortest.link/8Fw4) showing you the land, homes & communities we’ll lose by 2050 at current emissions rates. We need @UKLabour to give us green power by 2030 & to invest in renewable energy. #Toriesout https://twitter.com/anthonymv1/status/1594459540568801281/photo/1 [Source]

• 20 Nov 2022: Tweet

  Today’s deal at #COP27 was a failure on efforts to cut carbon dioxide emissions. This is our problem: Folkestone & Hythe is the area most at risk of flooding in Kent. At current emissions levels, most of Dungeness will be under the sea by 2050 (see link) https://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/area-at-highest-risk-of-flooding-revealed-207373/ [Source]

• 19 Oct 2022: Tweet

  What a hypocrite. The last Tory manifesto said no fracking unless the science changes. It hasn’t changed. Yet @DamianCollins just voted against a ban on fracking, which Truss wants to re-start. The Tories don’t give a toss about climate change: it’s party before country. https://twitter.com/anthonymv1/status/1582816812768821248/photo/1 [Source]

• 16 Oct 2022: Tweet

  I don’t see much of a gamble: green hydrogen is the answer for long distance transportation, & heavy industry. @UKLabour would pump in the investment we need for the UK’s green hydrogen future. The great hydrogen gamble: hot air or net zero’s holy grail? https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/oct/15/the-great-hydrogen-gamble-hot-air-or-net-zeros-holy-grail?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other [Source]

• 26 Sep 2022: Tweet

  @FH4Labour crew at @UKLabour #LabourConference2022 And the best choice of background photo! Labour’s new policy announcements are desperately needed: re-nationalizing the railways, council housing, net zero by 2030, windfall tax on energy companies. We need a general election! https://twitter.com/anthonymv1/status/1574472238451101712/photo/1 [Source]