Parliament - Geraint Davies

Ukraine

Commons debates

That being said, does the Minister accept that each day that the war goes on comes at an enormous economic and humanitarian cost to the world that dwarfs the investment put in to help Ukraine...

Ukraine

Commons debates

The hon. Lady makes a critical point about the need to follow through on the association with families to ensure that sufficient support is provided, and that those who are received are safe and...

Ukraine

Commons debates

The right hon. Lady makes an excellent point, which I fully concur with. Frankly, the reason for this discrepancy has been the mean-minded culture in Britain—the idea that we somehow have a...

Ukraine

Commons debates

I am grateful for that intervention. We are not just talking about economic costs and sanctions; the main cost of this war is the loss of human life, and the 5 million refugees who have left...

Ukraine

Commons debates

May I offer my warmest congratulations to the right hon. Member for Scarborough and Whitby (Sir Robert Goodwill), the newly elected Chair of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee? I...

Ukraine

Commons debates

Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that the west has been very timid because of its fear of a nuclear reaction? On the evidence of Putin’s threat, he said that if we imposed sanctions on...

Ukraine

Commons debates

I was in Lithuania with an all-party group. At the reception centres for refugees, women were coming in with children and were being processed within 12 hours. They were simply given biometric...

Ukraine

Commons debates

Does my hon. Friend agree that the sanctions strategy can be unravelled over time? That is shown by the fact that since 2014, when the Crimea sanctions were introduced, the production of food in...

Ukraine

Commons debates

The Minister is probably aware that Putin signed a deal at the Olympics in Beijing for Russia to provide 10 billion cubic metres of gas per year from 2025, compared with 1.25 billion a year now,...

Ukraine

Commons debates

Will the Minister give way on the issue of sanctions?

Ukraine

Commons debates

Given the phenomenal impact on world food supplies, the cost of living crisis here, and the forecasts, which are now increasing, that the global economy will shrink by something like £750...

Xinjiang Internment Camps: Shoot-to-Kill Policy

Commons debates

We heard, by way of example, of the case of a mother who has been interned and may be subject to the shoot-to-kill policy because she is associated with her son, who has been imprisoned for 10...

Air Pollution

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Office of National Statistics publication on Air quality statistics in the UK, 1987 to 2021 -...

Air Pollution: Pollution Control

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the Government is on track to reduce particulate matter emissions by 46 per cent by 2030 as set out in the Clean Air...

Air Pollution: Pollution Control

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what local measures and targets he is planning to introduce to reduce air pollution.

Air Pollution: Pollution Control

Department of Health and Social Care

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has analysis to show by how much particulate matter emissions need to be reduced in order to reduce premature deaths caused by...

Achieving Economic Growth

Commons debates

I am listening to this very amusing after-dinner speech, but does the right hon. Gentleman agree that the serious issue here is that, had we continued on the growth trend of the last Labour...

Achieving Economic Growth

Commons debates

Will he give way?

Achieving Economic Growth

Commons debates

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Hertford and Stortford (Julie Marson). Today, we listened again to the Prime Minister telling us that we had a strong economy, yet when Labour left...

Achieving Economic Growth

Commons debates

Some years ago, I brought forward a Bill on the regulation of psychotherapists, which recommended banning conversion therapy. There was a conference that 100 conversion therapists attended, so...

When I arrived 1997 the background was public school boys who arriving with a hierarchical view of the world alongside a system where there was no career structure, no human resources no appraisals no support for staff or even MPs. Geraint Davies

Geraint Davies