Extracts from Commons proceedings - Jan 16
Thursday, 17 January 2019 08:42
Extract from Commons adjournment debate on Car Production:
Solihull Julian Knight (Solihull) (Con):...We face a period of
economic uncertainty, especially for exporters, as we negotiate our
future relationship with the European Union and start to pursue our
own independent trade policy. It is vital to the wellbeing of
constituencies such as mine and the entire British economy, not to
mention the Government’s own long-term environmental and
technological ambitions, that we do...Request free trial
Extract from
Commons adjournment debate on Car Production:
Solihull
(Solihull) (Con):...We
face a period of economic uncertainty, especially for exporters, as
we negotiate our future relationship with the European Union and
start to pursue our own independent trade policy. It is vital to
the wellbeing of constituencies such as mine and the entire British
economy, not to mention the Government’s own long-term
environmental and technological ambitions, that we do everything we
can to offer stability and certainty to companies such as Jaguar
Land Rover. Only then will they be able to make the investment
needed to protect jobs, drive growth and make our eventual
transition to electric cars a reality.
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Extracts from
Westminster Hall debate on the British Bioethanol
Industry
(Scunthorpe)
(Lab):...Although a range of technologies,
including electric cars, may play a complementary
role in decarbonising transportation and improving air quality, the
reality is that electric vehicles represent only a small percentage
of overall car sales in the UK—currently around 6% of annual
sales—and most are hybrid, so in the short to medium term
bioethanol and E10 would make a significant contribution. To have
the same environmental impact as the introduction of E10, we would
need to replace 2 million petrol cars with electric vehicles
immediately...
(Strangford) (DUP):...I
was heartened by the work of my local council and its recycling
endeavours. As an easy-to-grasp illustration of what it had done,
for example, it equated its work on increasing recycling and
lessening waste to the number of cars taken off the road—it put it
in simple language. The UK-wide introduction of E10 would be the
equivalent of removing 700,000 cars from the roads, or 3
million tonnes of CO2. The information provided to me
states that the roll-out of E10 would be the fastest and most
effective way for the UK to reach its climate change targets,
especially as E10 can be used in hybrid electric cars...
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