United Kingdom parliament
Christopher Chope
Member of Parliament · Conservative
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House of Commons · House of Commons · 11 September 2026
Adjournment: 25th anniversary of 9/11 – Havant MP’s tribute
“I'm grateful to my honourable friend and congratulate him very much on bringing this debate to the House. And I think what he's said is symptomatic of the importance of the special relationship which he does so much to support…”
Watch from 5:27:03
House of Commons · House of Commons · 10 September 2026
Urgent Question: Air traffic control failure and passenger disruption
“Does the minister agree that that incident and the other ones that preceded it are a threat to national security? Because as my honorable friend from Hamble Valley said, there are more than a hundred RAF personnel actually staged at…”
Watch from 1:37:22
Energy Security and Net Zero Committee · House of Commons · 9 September 2026
Community consent vs state imposition
“You say that you've got to take the communities with you. Does that mean that it's purely voluntary or does it or is there a sort of a coercive element of that? Because that that there's a big distinction between…”
Watch from 7:37Community consent vs state imposition
“And and in the latter example you gave the government forcing it that could be counterproductive because it means you haven't got the the consent of the local people.”
Watch from 9:07Environmental profile of fusion vs fission
“You refer to large infrastructure, but isn't one of the arguments that this is small infrastructure which can be put in lots of different places and rather like perhaps not quite as much as solar panels, but that compared with…”
Watch from 13:05
Westminster Hall · House of Commons · 8 September 2026
Liberal Democrat response: hate crime rates, policing of protests and education
“Well, I didn't impose a time limit, but there's always half an hour at the end for wind-ups. And you've been a member of this House now for over two years, you must realize that in an hour and a…”
Watch from 1:01:40
Energy Security and Net Zero Committee · House of Commons · 2 September 2026
Close of Panel 1 and introduction of renewables panel
“Good morning. Under the revised national pricing structure, we've got the opportunity to have some radical changes. Would you agree with a radical change which would ensure that we would no longer pay producers of renewables for their electricity output…”
Watch from 53:49Curtailment payments, storage incentives and fossil fuel investment
“Can I encourage you to be a bit more imaginative? Because at the moment the producers of this renewable electricity, when it's not needed, they have no incentive to build their own storage facilities and operate on the basis of…”
Watch from 56:35Curtailment payments, storage incentives and fossil fuel investment
“Okay, you articulate the producer interests in this. Can I ask you another challenge question? For most of production in this country, the producers do not get subsidized for the costs of transmitting their production from the place where it's…”
Watch from 58:33
House of Commons · House of Commons · 15 July 2026
Urgent Question: Political framing and future energy mix
“Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. Balancing the grid is really important, but why is the cost of so doing rising from about one and a half billion pounds a year to 10 billion pounds by 2030?”
Watch from 1:57:16
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