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Helen Morgan's Climate-related Tweets, Speeches & Votes

We've found the following climate-related tweets, speeches & votes by Helen Morgan

• 24 Jun 2026: Parliamentary Speech

  In the short time I have, I will focus on two issues. For the roughly 130 dairy farmers in North Shropshire the huge pressures of climate change, increased input costs, rising energy and fertiliser prices, and hostile trade deals have come at a time when milk prices are simply not keeping up with the cost of production, as we have heard.

  Full debate: Farming: Financial Sustainability

• 20 Nov 2025: Parliamentary Speech

  My constituents are no strangers to flooding, whether that is from the Rivers Severn and Vyrnwy in villages such as Melverley or from surface water or inadequate infrastructure in Gobowen and Hadnall. The Environment Agency says that another 1,600 properties in my constituency will be vulnerable to surface water flooding by 2050, and the Planning and Infrastructure Bill fails to address flooding or climate change at all. Given that the Government voted down my amendments and those of my Lib Dem colleagues to the Bill, which were intended to tackle this problem, can we have a debate or a statement from the relevant Minister on how the UK will build flood resilience?

  Full debate: Business of the House

• 23 Oct 2025: Parliamentary Speech

  A number of constituents have come to see me about adaptations made to their home under the ECO4 scheme, where an installer has received a grant from the Government—from the taxpayer—to hopefully improve the energy efficiency of their home, but what the homeowner has actually experienced is significant disruption and energy bills that have gone up. The payment to the installer from the taxpayer is based on estimates of the household’s energy use before and after—there are no facts involved. Can we have a statement from the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero on whether these schemes represent value for money for the taxpayer and the homeowner, and whether they can be made more efficient in the future?

  Full debate: Business of the House

• 06 Sep 2025: Tweet

  RT @DannyVet: Whether talking about climate change or health, Reform continue to pedal anti-science conspiracy theories like the quacks tha… [Source]

• 9 Jun 2025: Parliamentary Speech

  I chair the all-party parliamentary group on flooding and flooded communities, which is concerned that there are 6.3 million properties currently at risk of flooding—a figure that is forecast to rise to 8 million by 2050 because of climate change. However, the Bill does not really address climate change or any kind of flood resilience. Will the hon. Gentleman join me in urging the Minister to consider the amendments tabled by me and others that deal with building properties in areas that are at risk of flooding and lack flood resilience?

  Full debate: Planning and Infrastructure Bill

• 10 Dec 2024: Parliamentary Speech

  This morning, 2,500 people in my constituency were still without power. That is down from 8,000 yesterday morning, and I am grateful to all the engineers who have worked so hard to get those people back online. Water booster pumps also lost power on Sunday, so those in a large area of the constituency experienced low water pressure. In the sizeable town of Wem, there were large areas with no water at all, despite there having been only a yellow weather warning. It seems that that the resilience of the utility companies is not where it needs to be to respond to an event of this nature. Can the Minister reassure me about what she is doing with those companies to ensure that we are more resilient in future, given that these events will be increasingly frequent as the impact of climate change worsens?

  Full debate: Storm Darragh

• 19 Jul 2024: Parliamentary Speech

  Planning is not just about housing. We have many demands on our countryside: housing, renewable energy, nature restoration and, importantly, the growing of food. We need to simplify planning so that all those things can happen. Housing, renewable energy and job creation are incredibly important, but I urge the Government to ensure that when they go ahead, it is not at the expense of food production. The Liberal Democrats have called for the development of a land use strategy so that these important and competing demands can be balanced, and so that we use land in the optimal way, protecting the highest grade arable land for food production and putting the infrastructure of renewable energy and housing in less prime places. I therefore hope that the Government will consider a land use strategy as part of their planning reform.

  Full debate: Planning, the Green Belt and Rural Affairs

• 27 Mar 2024: Tweet

  The equivalent of 63 days non-stop sewage release into the River Morda by Severn Trent last year. Disgraceful. Water companies have failed to plan for housing and climate change they knew would happen. The water industry needs a complete overhaul. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68665335 [Source]

• 08 Mar 2024: Tweet

  It was a pleasure to speak at the Meadows & Verges Conference at Oswestry Memorial Hall earlier today. ???? Very well-attended and interesting discussions about biodiversity, climate change, flooding, farming, and everything rural. Thank you to the organisers for the invite! https://twitter.com/HelenMorganMP/status/1766119179592347891/photo/1 [Source]

• 06 Dec 2023: Tweet

  Fantastic to meet @hadnallprimary in Parliament today to answer their questions about being North Shropshire's MP. Great to see their artwork showcased at the 'Creative for Climate' exhibition, highlighting the impact of climate change too. https://twitter.com/HelenMorganMP/status/1732442637435642193/photo/1 [Source]

• 24 Oct 2023: Parliamentary Speech

  I move briefly on to Lords amendment 45. It is the Liberal Democrats’ view that the original amendment is superior to the Government’s amendment in lieu. It would place duties on the Secretary of State to mitigate and adapt planning policy to reflect climate change. Planning is an integral part of achieving net zero, and as such it is only right that it puts climate considerations at its heart. At the moment, net zero goals are inconsistently applied to planning applications. Local development plans consider climate complications, whereas individual planning applications do not and, without the Government’s amendment in lieu, national development management policies—NDMPs—will not either.

  The Lords amendment would extend environmental duties to all aspects of the planning system with a sharpened focus, ensuring that new plans would contribute to specific climate and nature targets. A dual approach is particularly important because climate and ecological decline are closely intertwined, and unfortunately both are accelerating. I do not think that this amendment should be controversial. It is publicly backed by environment businesses, local government and environmental NGOs. The time has run out for looking at climate change simply as an add-on or an afterthought, and given the Government’s recent back-pedalling on their net zero commitments, this should be an easy opportunity to put climate change at the core of the planning process.

  Full debate: Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill

• 20 Sep 2023: Tweet

  RT @PolitlcsUK: ???? | BREAKING: Speaker Lindsay Hoyle blasts Rishi Sunak for his failure to make the statement on net zero to Parliament firs… [Source]

• 17 Aug 2023: Tweet

  My pleasure to answer questions from residents at Rhydycroesau Village Hall this afternoon, covering ambulance response times, buses, trains, planning, potholes and climate change! Thank you to all those who came along. Also, the village show tomorrow looks great! https://twitter.com/HelenMorganMP/status/1692233187810795884/photo/1 [Source]

• 23 May 2023: Parliamentary Speech

  I have been contacted by a number of businesses, mostly farms, that want to install renewable energy in the form of a solar array or a wind turbine, but have been advised that they will have to pay thousands of pounds to help to upgrade the grid in their area, making those projects unaffordable. Along with the commitment to phase out oil-fired boilers, that means that there will be huge demand on rural grid capacity. Will the Minister reassure me that he is taking steps to ensure rural networks will be able to cope with that surge in demand?

  Full debate: Grid Capacity

• 24 Apr 2023: Parliamentary Speech

  Turning to the detail of the Bill, there are some steps in the right direction. The increase in the frequency of revaluations, from every five years to every three years, is clearly welcome. It is also right to enable businesses to use business rates improvement relief to encourage businesses to improve and upgrade their properties. We would hope that the relief might encourage businesses to look towards ways in which they can embrace decarbonisation.

  Full debate: Non-Domestic Rating Bill

• 7 Mar 2023: Parliamentary Speech

  I am sure we are all aware that domestic transport is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the country. The Department for Transport’s 2022 statistical estimates report that cars emit more greenhouse gases per passenger mile than trains and coaches, for the obvious reason that trains and coaches convey more people, so maximising the number of people in a vehicle for each journey is a really important part of meeting our emissions targets. The example that the Department gives is a long-distance one: on a journey between London and Glasgow, the average petrol car emits over four times more CO 2 than the equivalent journey by coach for each person, or 3.3 times more CO 2 per passenger than an electric car, once it has been taken into account that we do not generate all our electricity in a totally green way.

  In rural areas, it is proving really difficult to get such efficiencies and cut the greenhouse gases that we emit because of the high level of dependency on private cars, which are mostly non-electric. Our bus services are already very poor and have been driven to the verge of extinction by the covid pandemic, and it is well documented that usage has not yet recovered to pre-pandemic levels. In Shropshire, services have continued to be cut since 2020 because they are no longer considered commercially viable. Obviously, we are not just talking about the tiny hamlets where everyone accepts it would be uneconomical and unsuitable for a large bus to trundle through; market towns of under 20,000 or 30,000 people are suffering as well.

  Full debate: Decarbonising Rural Transport

  Yes, I agree. We have absolutely seen that in North Shropshire and across the rest of the county. It is causing us a number of different issues, in addition to those of climate emissions. Already in my constituency, it is no longer possible to access one of our two key hospitals in Telford from Oswestry without changing services at least twice. There is no direct public transport service at all between Market Drayton, a town of around 12,000 people, and the sizeable town of Telford, where there are all sorts of extra services that people might want to access.

  Full debate: Decarbonising Rural Transport

  The lack of a usable service not only means we emit far more greenhouse gases than we used to or, more accurately, than we need to, but there is a social and economic cost. For instance, the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital in Gobowen, near Oswestry in North Shropshire, is a top-class orthopaedic hospital with a dedicated veterans’ centre that takes patients from all over the country. We are extremely proud of it. Recently, however, the hospital is struggling to recruit and retain its staff and one of the factors in that is the lack of a bus service back into Oswestry for those working early or late shifts because those end-of-day services have been axed from the route. More widely, the issue is driving young people from our towns, increasing the proportion of elderly residents, and harming the economic vibrance of the high streets.

  Full debate: Decarbonising Rural Transport

  We are on the list for the Access for All plan. We have made our bid, which I hope will be successful, but it takes years and years to come through. If we are trying to get to net zero by 2050, the Access for All process really does need to be speeded up and, let’s face it, most places do not have a railway station or a railway line. Many of those stations have been axed from rural market towns and would be totally uneconomic to reinstate, particularly as those towns largely have housing estates over the former track, so we need to have a nationally led bus strategy that addresses people getting out of their cars and on to buses.

  Full debate: Decarbonising Rural Transport

• 2 Mar 2023: Parliamentary Speech

  My right hon. Friend the Member for Orkney and Shetland (Mr Carmichael) has already raised the issue of access to the alternative fuel payment and some of the chaos around its application. It is the second day of meteorological spring. People who are off grid, and people who do not have a direct relationship with their electricity supplier, are still waiting for the portal through which they can apply for a payment to go live. These are some of the most vulnerable people—in some cases, they are in park homes or canal boats—and they have not had any help with their fuel bills for the whole winter. So can we ask for a statement from the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero on how and when these people can expect some help with their energy bills?

  Full debate: Business of the House

• 13 Dec 2022: Parliamentary Speech

  I fear that the Bill misses the opportunity to ensure that, when we build new homes, we protect the environment. The Conservatives have allowed around 1 million new homes to be built since 2015, which are not as efficient as they would have been had the standards put in place under the coalition Government been retained. This is a missed environmental opportunity, and it means that homeowners are paying far more to heat their homes than they might otherwise have done. New clause 20 would bring forward the date of the future homes standard to January, which may be unrealistic in the circumstances, but I hope that the Minister will consider bringing it forward to save homebuyers money and to work towards our climate objectives.

  Full debate: Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill

• 07 Dec 2022: Tweet

  RT @LibDems: The decision to approve a new coal mine in Cumbria cancels out all the progress Britain has made on renewable energy. Rishi… [Source]

• 30 Nov 2022: Parliamentary Speech

  Amendment 4 would require the Government to produce a quarterly assessment of how much revenue has been forgone through the investment allowance and publish the names of the companies that have benefited from the tax break. The lost revenue could have gone to supporting struggling households or protecting our public services, and the British people deserve to know how the money has been spent. I am also concerned about the environmental impact of the investment allowance. The Government state that they are committed to net zero, but at the same time the allowance promotes oil and gas exploration, while refusing renewable generators an equivalent tax relief.

  Full debate: Finance Bill

• 15 Nov 2022: Parliamentary Speech

  Britain cannot produce enough gas from fracking to reduce the global gas price, so it will not reduce our energy bills, especially when electricity from renewable sources is the cheapest form of energy we can produce. Investing in renewables—not only the cheapest, but the cleanest form of energy—is the best way to bring down our bills and our carbon emissions. As COP27 meets in Sharm El Sheikh and the lack of progress on the climate emergency is brought to international attention, it would be disastrous for the UK to start novel types of fossil fuel extraction. We need to find ways to keep fossil fuels in the ground, not waste effort looking for ever more inventive ways of extracting them.

  Local communities affected by fracking have already expressed their opposition to the lifting of the moratorium; so, too, have the vast majority of the British people, who in 2019 voted for parties that opposed fracking in some form or another. Fracking simply will not bring down our energy bills, and if we are to address the energy problems the country faces, we must rapidly invest in renewable energy sources. The science has not changed either, and fracking is just as unsafe and unreliable as it was three years ago. I would welcome the Government’s confirmation of that point.

  Full debate: Fracking: Local Consent

• 7 Nov 2022: Parliamentary Speech

  In 2015, the Conservatives abandoned the Liberal Democrats’ zero- carbon homes policy, as a result of which 1 million homes have been built that cost more to heat and emit more carbon dioxide than they need to. So where are the provisions in the Bill to retrofit our social housing with insulation, and ensure that newly built social housing is warm and affordable? While including energy efficiency in the regulator’s objectives is a welcome step, it is clear that more could be done to reduce fuel poverty and help us achieve our net zero objectives.

  Full debate: Social Housing (Regulation) Bill [Lords]

• 19 Oct 2022: Vote

  Ban on Fracking for Shale Gas Bill - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 20 Jul 2022: Tweet

  Fuel prices are breaking family budgets, we're in the midst of a climate emergency and people are still forced to fill up their cars to access the basics. Meanwhile the Government has ignored every funding bid Shropshire has put in. Levelling Up? What Levelling Up? [Source]

• 12 Jul 2022: Tweet

  .@uksciencechief’s sobering briefing last night made clear just how serious the climate emergency is. Words are not enough – we need major action from the Government. Yet sadly none of the Conservative leadership hopefuls decided this key briefing was worth their time. [Source]

• 27 Jun 2022: Tweet

  RT @sarahjolney1: Pleased to contribute to this video on #NetZeroDay. We must continue to be ambitious with our climate objectives and pr… [Source]

• 15 Jun 2022: Parliamentary Speech

  In broad terms, I support the idea of encouraging a science-based approach to technologies such as genetic editing for precision breeding. In general terms, I accept that such methods will be helpful in the fight against climate change and excessive antibiotic use, among other things, and that they have the potential to reduce the need for pesticides in farming. I welcome that the Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment and the European Food Safety Authority have advised that no more risk is attached to precision-bred foods than to those from traditional breeding methods.

  Full debate: Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill

• 14 Nov 2021: Tweet

  RT @timfarron: How might #cop26 have panned out if the host prime minister hadn’t rendered his government diplomatically impotent having br… [Source]

• 04 Nov 2021: Tweet

  RT @henrymance: calm down everyone, it's not as if the British prime minister took a private jet from a climate summit to a dinner at an al… [Source]

• 03 Nov 2021: Tweet

  To be honest it looked to me as if he'd had enough to drink at COP26! https://t.co/DoSECRwyzb [Source]

• 03 Nov 2021: Tweet

  RT @EdwardJDavey: A private jet to a private party with a climate change denier. The mask slips. https://t.co/HlWIbr9n0S [Source]

• 02 Nov 2021: Tweet

  RT @standardnews: The leader of the Lib Dems, Sir Ed Davey, has led COP talks on three previous occasions and his biggest fear now for the… [Source]

• 31 Oct 2021: Tweet

  RT @LizWebsterLD: The ???? in the room at #COP26 is that Brexit makes Britain a massive hypocrite ???? [Source]

• 31 Oct 2021: Tweet

  RT @paulmasonnews: "We didn't vote for net zero" says S*n columnist... but here's the 2019 Tory manifesto ???????? - the disinformation drive for… [Source]

• 28 Oct 2021: Tweet

  RT @scotlibdems: Last night, the SNP joined together with the Tories to support a third runway at Heathrow On the eve of COP26, the First… [Source]

• 27 Oct 2021: Tweet

  RT @mollycnolan: On the eve of COP26, the SNP have just voted in favour of a third runway at Heathrow and the Tories have announced a tax c… [Source]

• 06 Oct 2021: Tweet

  RT @libdemdaisy: 220,000+ pupils are now missing school due to Covid. I’ve asked the govt - for the nth time - where are the CO2 monitors?… [Source]

• 16 Sep 2021: Tweet

  RT @uk_domain_names: Did you know that the new Trade Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan is a keen climate change denier? Dangerous, given the k… [Source]

• 02 Sep 2021: Tweet

  RT @Haggis_UK: Charlie Stayt - Have the schools got those CO2 monitors today? Gavin Williamson - They are being rolled out during this te… [Source]

• 14 Aug 2021: Tweet

  RT @LibDems: We cannot afford to be dragging our feet and lagging behind as we race to address the climate crisis. As host of the COP26 UN… [Source]

• 13 Jul 2021: Tweet

  RT @LibDems: More children going hungry, more girls without an education and a weaker fight against climate change. The Tories’ broken pr… [Source]

• 10 Jun 2021: Tweet

  RT @LibDems: "At a global summit with climate change at the forefront, the Prime Minister’s choice to fly to Cornwall from London is laugha… [Source]

• 03 Mar 2021: Tweet

  RT @libdemdaisy: Britain should be really angry today. Today’s #ToryBudget has almost: ❌ Nothing to tackle climate emergency ❌ Nothing on… [Source]