Russian Ship Yantar - 20th November 2025

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Russian Ship Yantar.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2025-11-20/debates/E8F464AB-22C5-40F6-BCF5-9A981930F88F/RussianShipYantar

11:09 Nick Timothy (Conservative)

We know, as the Minister has said, that Russia and China target undersea cables and interconnectors, which we rely on increasingly because of the Government’s energy policy. We know that the Russians put listening devices on our offshore infrastructure to monitor our submarines, and we know that China, which dominates the world market for cellular internet modules, inserts kill switches into the turbines that this Government want to buy from them. I have been asking the same question for a year now: why is there not a single Minister in charge of the security of our offshore energy infrastructure? What representations have Ministry of Defence Ministers made to the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, who is causing so many of these problems?

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