Coal Use Reduction - 19th January 2022

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Coal Use Reduction.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2022-01-19/debates/410BCC77-8EB4-4A27-A37B-28CFB147A706/CoalUseReduction

Neil Hudson (Conservative)

6. What progress he made at COP26 on reducing the use of coal.

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11:30 Neil Hudson (Conservative)

I congratulate the COP President on his achievements at COP26. I welcome our move away from the use of coal, and that should include any new exploration for both thermal and metallurgical coal. With that in mind, does he agree that the UK can be a beacon to the rest of the world and we can show a progressive environmental example by not going ahead with the proposed coalmine in west Cumbria?

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