VoteClimate: Engagements - 24th January 2024

Engagements - 24th January 2024

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

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2024-01-24/debates/7E61064D-D3AF-4AB7-AD75-6D7E193174F9/Engagements

Rishi Sunak (Conservative)

We do know that the right hon. and learned Gentleman is committed to his 2030 decarbonisation promise, which the Opposition say will cost £28 billion. I was reading about it this week. He says that he has changed the party, but one of his team called that promise “an albatross” hanging around their neck—that might have been the shadow Chancellor. But he said they are doubling down on it, and all this is ahead of a crunch meeting this week, we are told, for the Opposition to work out how they will pay for that. I can save them some time, because we all know the answer: higher taxes for the British people.

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Ms Anum Qaisar (Airdrie and Shotts) (SNP)

Q8. We entered 2024 with starvation and famine as acute as ever across the globe, much of it caused by the climate crisis, yet at present the world’s worst hunger crisis is in Gaza, created by Israel’s ongoing siege. The integrated food security phase classification has found that of the 600,000 people facing starvation globally, 95% are in Gaza. Starvation used as a weapon of war is a war crime. The Israeli Government have the power to end this starvation crisis by ending the siege of Gaza and opening all crossings—do they not, Prime Minister? ( 901175 )

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