04/02/2025
Today in Parliament
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🗓️ 4 February 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Susan Hulme reports as energy security and net zero ministers take questions from MPs.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Order! Order. |
| 0:07.0 | Hello, I'm Susan Hume and this is the Today in Parliament podcast for Tuesday the 4th of February. |
| 0:12.9 | Coming up, the climate change secretary doubles down on his drive towards green energy. |
| 0:17.8 | But not everyone is a fan. |
| 0:19.5 | When were the bills come down or will net stupid zero |
| 0:23.1 | mean they'll only ever go up? The government announces a 10-year cancer plan and for one minister |
| 0:29.8 | it's personal as he talks about his mum. It had spread all the way through her body. They |
| 0:34.9 | sewed her back up and she died at the end of a hospital |
| 0:38.0 | ward two days later in pain and agony. |
| 0:41.8 | And new legislation to make it easier for renters to be allowed a pet. |
| 0:46.0 | I think there has been over these many years a lot of hidden unhappiness, needless unhappiness |
| 0:53.9 | with people who so value the companionship of animals. |
| 0:57.9 | But first, the climate and net zero secretary Ed Miliband has vigorously committed to decarbonising |
| 1:04.4 | energy and the economy, despite signs that the drive for growth could be nudging government |
| 1:09.7 | policy in the opposite direction. |
| 1:12.2 | Last week, the Chancellor said the government backed airport expansion, including a new runway at Heathrow. |
| 1:18.7 | And there are reports that there could be approval for a new oil field at Rosebank off Shetland. |
| 1:24.1 | At Commons question time, the Green Party MP, Carla Denier, tackled Ed Miliband on airports. |
| 1:30.5 | Experts are clear. The savings from the government's clean power action plan will be wiped out by 2050 if airport expansion at Heathrow, Gatwick and Luton goes ahead. |
| 1:41.4 | And relying on so-called sustainable aviation fuels would use |
| 1:45.3 | up to half of the UK's agricultural land. Ed Miliband dealt with airport expansion briefly. |
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