May 2026

Sarah Bool voted AYE on 'King's Speech Motion for an Address: amendment (i)' (108-323, defeated)

Gregory Stafford voted AYE on 'King's Speech Motion for an Address: amendment (i)' (108-323, defeated)

Jack Rankin voted AYE on 'King's Speech Motion for an Address: amendment (i)' (108-323, defeated)

Lincoln Jopp voted AYE on 'King's Speech Motion for an Address: amendment (i)' (108-323, defeated)

I am grateful for the opportunity to speak today, because it is vital that we make the transition to a new era of clean energy, driving our nation’s energy security forward, while rebuilding our public services and backing businesses to help them to grow. One of the most telling themes that emerge from what businesses in my constituency tell me at our regular roundtable meetings is the slowness of our country to create the infrastructure that its economy needs to succeed and underpin that transi

I am going to make some progress, and then I will give way. For nearly two years, we have been moving at speed on our mission to make Britain a clean energy superpower. We came to office amid a legacy of the irrational onshore wind ban; the fiasco of the allocation round 5 auction, with no offshore wind secured; and years of dither and delay on nuclear—the shadow Secretary of State amused me on nuclear, and I will come to that in a second. The Conservative Government left us exposed through 14 y

Peter Bedford voted AYE on 'King's Speech Motion for an Address: amendment (i)' (108-323, defeated)

Parliamentary appearance by Tim Farron

I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Derby North (Catherine Atkinson) on her first outing at the Dispatch Box. On Friday, I met Jimmy, an imprisonment for public protection prisoner whose case I have previously raised with the Prime Minister, the Justice Secretary and the Prisons Minister. Despite good progress, he still does not have a firm release date after more than 20 years in prison and over a decade since IPP sentences were abolished. Will the Justice Secretary urge his Department

Parliamentary appearance by Joy Morrissey

Parliamentary appearance by Joy Morrissey

Parliamentary appearance by Heidi Alexander

Parliamentary appearance by Ms Nusrat Ghani

Parliamentary appearance by Ms Nusrat Ghani

Mark Garnier voted AYE on 'King's Speech Motion for an Address: amendment (i)' (108-323, defeated)

Jess Phillips voted NO on 'King's Speech Motion for an Address: amendment (i)' (108-323, defeated)

Daniel Zeichner voted NO on 'King's Speech Motion for an Address: amendment (i)' (108-323, defeated)

Order.

Parliamentary appearance by Caroline Nokes

I welcome the measures in the King’s Speech on energy security, as on many other issues. The Opposition’s wrong-headed approach would leave us tethered to global markets that we cannot control. They would lock our country out of much-needed jobs and condemn Brits to higher bills. The energy independence and nuclear regulation Bills, in contrast, are further leaps towards the stronger energy security we need. In my speech, I want to tackle an issue—it was actually touched on by the previous speak