VoteClimate: Scotland Bill - 8th June 2015

Scotland Bill - 8th June 2015

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Scotland Bill.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2015-06-08/debates/1506082000001/ScotlandBill

19:40 Callum McCaig (Aberdeen South) (SNP)

Aberdeen proudly boasts the title of Europe’s oil capital and we are in the transition to becoming a truly global energy city as we diversify into new markets and into a hub for renewable energy. Over the coming weeks and months I look forward to championing the industries of Aberdeen and ensuring they get the support that they need from Government.

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20:01 Jeff Smith (Labour)

After 18 years in Manchester town hall, I had spent a long time in a huge neo-Gothic Victorian building full of politicians, so this year I thought I would do something new. In coming to the House of Commons, I hope to work hard to represent the people of Manchester, Withington, but I hope to fight for wider progressive causes; to combat climate change, the biggest challenge of our time; to tackle the housing crisis that affects so many people in my constituency; to argue for reform of our discredited and ineffective drug laws, and maybe even our discredited and ineffective Prime Minister’s Question Time; to fight poverty and defend human rights in this United Kingdom and abroad; and to create a better country—not one where we balance the books at the expense of the most vulnerable, but one where we build a more equal, more tolerant, more compassionate society.

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