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Finance (No. 3) Bill

Proceeding contribution from Alan Whitehead (Labour) in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 26 April 2011. It occurred during Debate on bills on Finance (No. 3) Bill.
Does the right hon. Gentleman not accept that raising the carbon price floor initially to such a level above the EU emissions trading scheme will not actually reduce emissions across Europe because they are fixed on a European basis, will risk investment moving to the other end of the interconnectors, and will move us substantially away from consultation on the issue of £1 above EU ETS, which I think most people would have accepted as a starting point for a longer-term carbon price floor to move towards the 2030s? Does he accept that he has got that price floor wrong, and that he needs to review it so as to make it actually work by genuinely increasing investment and reducing emissions?
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
527 c74 
Session
2010-12
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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