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Scott Benton
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Gender | Male |
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Age | 37 |
Date of birth | July 1,1987 |
Zodiac sign | Cancer |
Party | Conservative Party |
Office | Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom |
Born | Newport |
United Kingdom | |
Position | Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom since 2019 |
Education | University of Nottingham |
Rastrick High School | |
Major | 3,690 |
Spous | Harry Symonds |
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ID | 2556929 |
Scott Benton Life story
Scott Lloyd Benton is the Independent Member of Parliament for Blackpool South, holding office since the 2019 United Kingdom general election. A member of the Conservative Party, he was previously a councillor on Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council.
Matt Hancock investigated by Parliament's standards watchdog
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... It also confirmed Scott Benton is under investigation for his use of his parliamentary email address, without offering further information...
MP Scott Benton claims ways around hospitality rules
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...Scott Benton has been filmed by undercover reporters appearing to explain how companies and MPs can avoid registering corporate hospitality...
Tory MP Scott Benton filmed offering to lobby ministers
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...Conservative MP Scott Benton talked about the lobbying services he could potentially provide to a fake company, footage from an undercover investigation appears to show...
PMQs: Fact-checking claims about asylum and migrants
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... 6m per day to accommodate them - Scott Benton (Conservative)We ve heard the £5...
Boy, 11, is Blackpool crime spree ringleader, MP says
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... Conservative MP Scott Benton said a gang of youths had committed " hundreds of crimes" in Blackpool in recent weeks...
Jacob Rees-Mogg faces Tory anger over plan to buy local fracking support
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... " And Scott Benton, the MP for Blackpool South, said " My constituents are understandably anxious about fracking returning to the Fylde coast...
Women MPs lobby Speaker against babies in debates
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... But others spoke out against her, with Conservative MP Scott Benton saying: " Parents who get paid a fraction of what you do pay for childcare and juggle responsibilities so they can go to work...
Jacob Rees-Mogg faces Tory anger over plan to buy local fracking support
Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg is facing a Tory backlash over fracking, with one MP accusing him of planning to " buy off" concerned local residents.
The government has lifted a ban on fracking in England but promised it will only go ahead with local consent.
Mr Rees-Mogg repeatedly declined to say how local people would be consulted, in a heated Commons debate.
He Said fracking would get local backing if the drilling companies paid residents for the " inconvenience".
" We should not be ashamed of paying people who are going to be the ones who don't get The Immediate benefit of the gas but have the disruption, " he told MPs.
Pressed further on whether consent would be obtained through local referendums or the planning process, Mr Rees-Mogg said: " It will be a matter that is dealt with in a governmental way. "
Tory MP Mark Fletcher said it appeared communities would be " bought off" to allow fracking under the government's plans.
'Dangerous fantasy'The MP for Bolsover, a former Labour stronghold in Derbyshire, said: " I've listened carefully to The Secretary of state and I have to say The Local consent plans don't seem to wash.
" It seems to come back to communities being bought off rather than having a vote. "
A string of Tory, Labour and Lib Dem MPs with potential fracking sites in their constituencies joined in with the criticism.
Tory MP for Rushcliffe Ruth Edwards , said: " I have many concerned constituents who want to know that they have a genuine route to rejecting fracking applications that don't have local support, and I'm still not clear what that would be. "
And Scott Benton , the MP for Blackpool South, said " My constituents are understandably anxious about fracking returning to The Fylde coast. "
Labour's shadow Climate Change secretary Ed Miliband, who secured an urgent question in Parliament on the issue, described fracking as a " dangerous fantasy" and accused Mr Rees-Mogg of " creating a charter for earthquakes".
" We now have an energy policy run for big fossil fuel interests not for the British People . No to The Windfall tax and yes to dangerous, unsafe fracking, " He Said .
'Any potential sources'Mr Rees-Mogg said fracking was in The National interest and would make the country richer - and he accused Mr Miliband and others who spoke out against it of being " luddites".
He suggested current limits on acceptable levels of seismic activity are too restrictive and said the government is determined to " realise any potential sources of domestic gas".
Regulations require work to stop if tremors above 0. 5 on the Richter scale are detected, but Mr Rees-Mogg said he wanted that lifted potentially to 2. 5.
" There are millions of seismic events of 2. 5 or lower in The World every year, we should not assume that every seismic event is the San Francisco earthquake. "
But Conservative former minister Sir Greg Knight told MPs the risks of shale gas exploration were an " unknown quantity" and " the occurrence of seismic events as a result of fracking remains a challenge to the experts".
He added: " The safety of The Public is not a currency in which some of us choose to speculate. "
Mr Jacob Rees-Mogg said there was no evidence fracking was " worse" than coal mining or oil extraction, which were not subject to the same limitations.
While, amid opposition from environmentalists and local concerns, Prime Minister Liz Truss has backed fracking as a way to help boost the UK's domestic gas supplies during a time of skyrocketing energy prices.
She pledged that local support would be needed for sites to go ahead - and The Conservative manifesto for the 2019 general election said fracking would only be reconsidered if " the science shows categorically that it can be done safely".
Source of news: bbc.com