COP26 Conference Priorities - [Steve McCabe in the Chair]

22 Jul 2021

Backbench Business

Geraint Davies made a speech in a Westminster Hall debate

It is a pleasure to be here, Mr McCabe. The basic situation is that, globally, fossil fuel subsidies amount to 6.3% of global GDP. That has grown from 5.5% in 2010. We are already 1.2° above...

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Building Safety Bill

21 Jul 2021

Commons debates

Four years on from the Grenfell disaster, hundreds of thousands of people are still in unsafe homes and trapped in blocks, unable to move or to sell their properties—in ongoing chronic...

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Question

21 Jul 2021

Northern Ireland Office

Geraint Davies received a response to a question they put to the government

What recent discussions he has had with (a) Cabinet colleagues and (b) representatives of social media platforms on tackling sectarian abuse and incitement online.

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Trade and Agriculture Commission: Role in International Trade Deals - [Hannah Bardell in the Chair]

21 Jul 2021

Westminster Hall debates

I am very pleased to serve under your chairpersonship, Ms Bardell. As you know, I have been involved in the Council of Europe as a trade rapporteur. I am also a member of the EFRA Committee. I...

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Carbon Emissions

20 Jul 2021

Cabinet Office

Geraint Davies received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 18 June 2021 to Question 14131, whether Arup made any specific recommendations on...

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Carbon Emissions

20 Jul 2021

Cabinet Office

Geraint Davies received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 18 June 2021 to Question 14131, what the carbon emissions were from the travel by...

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Carbon Emissions

20 Jul 2021

Cabinet Office

Geraint Davies received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the cost to the public purse was of Arup's work on the Carbon Management Plan for the G7 summit in Cornwall.

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Carbon Emissions

20 Jul 2021

Cabinet Office

Geraint Davies received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 18 June 2021 to Question 14131, if he will publish the Carbon Management Plan...

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Carbon Emissions

20 Jul 2021

Treasury

Geraint Davies received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 15 July 2021 to Question 902805 on carbon tax in the transition to net zero, what other potential measures the Government is...

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Air Pollution

20 Jul 2021

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Geraint Davies made a speech in the House of Commons

University College London found in its February report that 8.7 million people die each year due to air pollution from fossil fuels. That is one in five deaths globally, and one in three in...

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Air Pollution

20 Jul 2021

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Geraint Davies made a speech in the House of Commons

What steps the Government are taking to work with partners in the global south to reduce deaths from air pollution ahead of the COP26 summit.

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[1st Allocated Day]

19 Jul 2021

Nationality and Borders Bill

Geraint Davies made a speech in the House of Commons

Last week, Swansea celebrated 10 years as a city of sanctuary. We offer a hand of friendship, not a fist of resistance; we are a community of communities, moving forward together in an uncertain...

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Covid-19 Update

19 Jul 2021

Commons debates

The Health Secretary was double jabbed and got infected. In Swansea Bay, 18% of those infected in June were double jabbed and 31% were single jabbed. So does the Minister accept that freedom day...

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Imports: Carbon Tax

15 Jul 2021

Treasury

Geraint Davies received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on the introduction of a carbon tax for imported goods.

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G7 Advocacy for Free and Fair Trade

15 Jul 2021

International Trade

Geraint Davies made a speech in the House of Commons

China now produces 28% of carbon emissions—more than the US and the EU combined—with more than half the world’s coal-fired power stations and a third more planned. To stop...

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Health and Care Bill

14 Jul 2021

Commons debates

The NHS was established to provide equal rights to healthcare, free at the point of delivery, irrespective of income or personal health. Yet as we emerge from the pandemic in praise of the NHS,...

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Climate Change: Wales

14 Jul 2021

Westminster Hall debates

It is great to be under your chairpersonship today, Mr Dowd, and it is a pleasure to join this debate, which was secured by my hon. Friend the Member for Gower (Tonia Antoniazzi). I will just...

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International Aid: Treasury Update

13 Jul 2021

Commons debates

There is no economic or moral justification for cutting overseas aid from the richest to the poorest at this most desperate time in the eye of the pandemic storm, which spreads death, disease and...

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Car Sharing

12 Jul 2021

Department for Transport

Geraint Davies received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government on publishing best practice and guidance for...

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Business of the House

08 Jul 2021

Commons debates

We all want to move safely out of lockdown, but we may now see the emergence of a new vaccine-resistant variant in people who have had one jab who are infected and, indeed, the level of infection...

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