I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention, but the answer is no. We do not know how much the increase in usage will be in the years ahead in order to compare it with past usage. It would be interesting, however, to compare this year’s figures with those for 1968.
I remember 1968 well. I was still at school—it is hard to believe, but I was. Funnily enough, I was staying only a couple of miles away from where I live at present, but on the other side of the road. I have a slightly bigger house now. In those days, I stayed ““one up left”” in a tenement, albeit one of the better tenements. I was a red sandstone boy, as Billy Connolly called it in one of his album contributions; and very glad I was too. That did not solve the problem of whether my sister, my mother, my gran and myself—
Energy Saving (Daylight) Bill
Proceeding contribution from
John Robertson
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Friday, 26 January 2007.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Energy Saving (Daylight) Bill.
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