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Mike Kane

Mike Kane

Mike Kane is the UK Labour MP for Wythenshawe and Sale East (since 2014) and served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Transport, responsible for aviation, maritime and security.

Sep 15, 2026

LauraHOST
14:13
Is there anything more specific in terms of initiatives or other thoughts that you're having in terms of how you want to take that forward?
14:22
Yes, thank you.
14:23
Thank you very much for the question.
14:25
The first thing is that the government needs to show that we're putting our money where our mouth is in terms of the sort of direction that we want to encourage private sector companies to work with us on to kind of make those big bets about where the future of shipping and maritime is moving.
14:42
It's why when I was first appointed in this role, Around a year ago, we announced £448 million of funding into the UK shore program for kind of co-investment with private sector companies into renewables initiatives.
14:57
That's the single largest ever investment in domestic maritime by UK government.
15:03
And I think shows the fact that we care about decarbonization, we unashamedly care about it.

15 MINS LATER

LauraHOST
30:01
Being or not being actually part of the EU, is that giving you an opportunity? Is that giving us an opportunity? Is it a problem? Is it a threat? Or all of the above? Maybe you can explain a bit more.

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