Richard Taylor

Baroness Northover: …has read, at the very least, the summary of the recent report produced by the Adaptation Committee of the Climate Change Committee, chaired by our colleague, the noble Baroness, Lady Brown of Cambridge. The world is currently on a path to be around 2 degrees above pre-industrial levels by 2050. We will not […]

Daniel Zeichner: …. Friend the Member for Sunderland Central (Lewis Atkinson) on the thoughtful and intelligent way he introduced the debate. As in every constituency, there are strongly held views on this issue in Cambridge. My constituents continue to write to me frequently. Most want the assisted dying Bill to proceed, as do the wider […]

Emma Hardy: …for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs at where we are building homes, whether we have the right water and what water infrastructure is needed. There has been some retrofitting of properties in Cambridge to make them more water efficient, but the right hon. Gentleman makes a powerful point about the use of grey […]

Kanishka Narayan: …17 regions across the UK to grow their high-potential innovation clusters. This includes supporting advanced manufacturing capabilities in places like the West Midlands, Greater Manchester, Oxford, Cambridge, and the East Midlands. Additionally, the government's Life Sciences Innovative Manufacturing Fund (LSIMF) – launched in October 2024 and consisting of up to £520m – is […]

Kate Dearden: …Commerce (TVCC)The Alan Turing InstituteThe Financial Reporting CouncilThe Manufacturing Technology CentreThurrock AuthorityUCLUK Government InvestmentsUK Research and InnovationUKCRICUniversity of CambridgeUniversity of SheffieldUniversity of York

Blair McDougall: …growth-driving sectors and the city regions and clusters across the UK where they concentrate, as detailed in its Technical Annex. We are supporting sectoral strengths such as in the Oxford to Cambridge Growth Corridor, including with a £20m Local Innovation Partnership Fund award focused on autonomous vehicles, high-performance engineering and space technology. The […]

Lord Markham: …that this is not the case. If responsible democratic nations choose not to lead, others will. The future will not be built only in democratic areas such as Silicon Valley or, hopefully, London and Cambridge. As the noble Lords, Lord Brooke and Lord Cashman, warned, it will also be shaped in places whose […]

Scott Arthur: …for her policies of research by (a) York University entitled Global Footprint Network: Explore Data, (b) Bioregional entitled The social shortfall and ecological overshoot of nations, (c) Cambridge University Press entitled Degrowth: a path to transformative solutions for socio-ecological sustainability and (d) Science Direct entitled Global Patterns of Ecologically Unequal Exchange on…

Karin Smyth: I thank the right hon. Member for North East Cambridgeshire (Steve Barclay) for raising this extremely serious matter very powerfully on behalf of his constituent Elizabeth, following the tragic loss of her son Jack. Our thoughts are with her and the rest of the family. We Members of Parliament find ourselves dealing with […]

Karin Smyth: I thank the right hon. Member for North East Cambridgeshire (Steve Barclay) for raising this extremely serious matter very powerfully on behalf of his constituent Elizabeth, following the tragic loss of her son Jack. Our thoughts are with her and the rest of the family. We Members of Parliament find ourselves dealing with […]

Baroness Deech: …lab-grown models made from human stem cells that mimic early stages of human embryonic development. They may verge on becoming real human embryos, and the voluntary code of practice developed in Cambridge needs to be embedded, with a view to developing a distinct method of regulating them—not bad for someone with no biology […]

Steve Barclay: …that growth plans were in the hands of the Chancellor, the now Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister replied: “It doesn’t fill you with confidence”. A good illustration of that can be seen in Cambridgeshire. Just last year, after spending £80 million of public money and securing planning permission for the largest brownfield […]

Steve Barclay: …that growth plans were in the hands of the Chancellor, the now Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister replied: “It doesn’t fill you with confidence”. A good illustration of that can be seen in Cambridgeshire. Just last year, after spending £80 million of public money and securing planning permission for the largest brownfield […]

Blake Stephenson: …that he had limited time, but I was disappointed that he did not pick up on the move to remote-only English language testing, which is a very important topic to both me and the hon. Member for Cambridge (Daniel Zeichner). I want to emphasise that it is important that there is confidence in […]

Emma Hardy: …can be guaranteed, whatever circumstances Southern Water finds itself in. There are various other actions we can take; I have mentioned businesses, building standards and the way we build homes. In Cambridge, they have looked at retrofitting some homes to make them use less water. There are various other rules and regulations on […]