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Zero secretary in parliamentjust shortly. they are still taking questions on housing at the moment. we should be hearing from her. parliament does have a tendency to run a bit late sometimes. there was a government briefing to journalists just a short time ago, some of the questions that included whether the first minister ever believed in the 2030 target and the government were saying that 2030 was a stretch and ambitious, and it is ambitious as well. preparing for the net zero secretary to take her place to give her statement. to take her place to give her statement- to take her place to give her statement. . , ., ., statement. that will be followed by some questions statement. that will be followed by some questions from statement. that will be followed by some questions from the statement. that will be followed by l some questions from the opposition. the conservative saying this is an embarrassment for the government and a similar line from the labour party as well. arian ....
Is having those discussions and no decisions have been made. so everyone is weighing in with their favourite bit of support that could be offered, and you can see that with this idea of the windfall tax as well. it has been put forward by opposition parties that you tax the excess profits of the oil and gas companies, who are making billions because of the increase in global oil and gas prices. at the moment, the covenant has a holding position which is that they are not in favour of it, but they are not ruling it out if it s needed further down the line. government ministers are now picking their favourite half of that sentence, with some saying we don t like tax rises, it shouldn t happen at all, and other saying actually, it could be a good idea. so there is some growing pains around the government position on the windfall tax as well, so when you read the papers you can see one half of the government briefing against the other. ., ~ , ., government briefing against the other. . ~ ....
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