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Energy Security

Opposition day on Monday, 30 June 2008, in the House of Commons, led by Alan Duncan. The answering member was Lord Hutton of Furness.
Energy Security. Sixteenth opposition day debate (part 1). Motion negatived on division (183 votes to 279). Amendment agreed to on question.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
478 c610-55 
Session
2007-08
Department
Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Oliver Heald | 478 c611 (Link to this contribution) But has it not been obvious for some time that great economies, such as India's and China's, have be...
Alan Duncan | 478 c611 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right about appreciating that our electricity generating capacity and e...

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Alan Duncan | 478 c610-1 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That this House acknowledges that the security of the UK's energy supply has become o...
Speaker | 478 c610 (Link to this contribution) We now come to the main business, which consists of Opposition day debates. I inform the House that ...
Alan Duncan | 478 c611 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is absolutely right about the importance of taking early and urgent decisions a...
John Redwood | 478 c611 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that on the question of how to generate more power from non-carbon sources...
Oliver Heald | 478 c614 (Link to this contribution) Germany, which was mentioned in the context of gas from Russia, has made strenuous efforts to divers...
Alan Duncan | 478 c614 (Link to this contribution) I will expand shortly on carbon capture and storage, which is a crucial ingredient to this debate, a...
Alan Duncan | 478 c614 (Link to this contribution) I am reluctant to delve into areas that are better answered by someone who represents the Foreign Of...
Lord Horam | 478 c614 (Link to this contribution) In getting the right balance between security and greenness, does my hon. Friend agree that the sign...
Alan Duncan | 478 c612-3 (Link to this contribution) That is a slightly ridiculous question; that was such a long time ago. Renewables hardly existed 10 ...
Chris Bryant | 478 c613-4 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way, especially as I was not here at the beginning of...
Alan Duncan | 478 c612 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. We can track a good four years of dithering and delay, for which...
Steve Webb | 478 c612 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely agree with the hon. Gentleman on the importance of the new emphasis on renewables and t...
Alan Duncan | 478 c612 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry; I am getting ahead of myself—two years ahead. I am always ahead of my time. No one—not ...
Crispin Blunt | 478 c612 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is being generous to the Government in an unwarranted fashion. All the decisions that...
Lord Robathan | 478 c651 (Link to this contribution) rose in his place and claimed to move, That the Question be now put. Question, That the Question be...
Malcolm Wicks | 478 c651 (Link to this contribution) Let us be clear: when there are good environmental or other reasons for saying no to a project—a pow...
David Hamilton | 478 c651 (Link to this contribution) There was a question earlier about nimbys in England. I assure my hon. Friend that there are as many...
Malcolm Wicks | 478 c651 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to give way to the eminent Whip.
Malcolm Wicks | 478 c651 (Link to this contribution) I do not know how up to date the hon. Gentleman is with the recent Luxembourg meeting of Energy Mini...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 478 c622 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend the Chancellor is responsible for petroleum revenue tax. He regularly meets the...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 478 c621 (Link to this contribution) If we look at the planning arrangements in many other European countries, we see a much more streaml...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 478 c623 (Link to this contribution) I suppose that that is a clarification. [Interruption.] It is a clarification of sorts. I confess th...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 478 c623 (Link to this contribution) It is true that companies cannot choose between grants or renewable obligation certificates. That ha...
Charles Hendry | 478 c623 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State should go back to consideration in Committee of the Energy Bill, where we mad...
Lord Willis of Knaresborough | 478 c624 (Link to this contribution) May we perhaps concentrate on Government policy, and may I ask the Secretary of State a simple quest...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 478 c624 (Link to this contribution) This is an Opposition Supply day, so it is quite reasonable for me to question the hon. Member for R...
Alan Duncan | 478 c617-9 (Link to this contribution) I understand the hon. Gentleman's concern and I know that exchanges between him and the Secretary of...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 478 c619 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, To leave out from ““House”” to the end of the Question, and to add instead thereof:"“...
Alan Duncan | 478 c619-20 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State says that we have not put forward any policies. Which of our policies did he ...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 478 c620 (Link to this contribution) We are likely to see planning applications being made in the next couple of years, and they will be ...
Doug Henderson | 478 c620 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that the Liberal Democrats, who oppose nuclear power, and the Conser...
Martin Horwood | 478 c621 (Link to this contribution) If undemocratic planning procedures are so essential to promoting renewables, why have 22 out of 25 ...
Alan Duncan | 478 c616 (Link to this contribution) I shall take one more intervention and then press on, otherwise I am going to go on for ever.
Alan Duncan | 478 c615-6 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman's attack on the national grid is unwarranted. It faces a massive challenge. The i...
Alan Duncan | 478 c614-5 (Link to this contribution) One of the key differences between us and Germany, which has, in our view, encouraged the developmen...
Lord Willis of Knaresborough | 478 c615 (Link to this contribution) Would the hon. Gentleman agree that the country faces two massive barriers that the Government must ...
Alan Duncan | 478 c616-7 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman mind if I press on? I think that I am taking too much time, and the time for...
Mike Weir | 478 c617 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman aware, however, that there is a provision in the Energy Bill on the banding of...
Alan Duncan | 478 c616 (Link to this contribution) The national grid needs to be able to take the energy that is ready to come on, rather than take it ...
Mike Weir | 478 c616 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Jamie Reed | 478 c635 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman mentioned radioactive waste and the issues associated with its storage and ultima...
Martin Horwood | 478 c635-6 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an interesting point, and there are parallels between the long-term storage...
Robert Key | 478 c632-3 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree that we should consider tidal flow energy and lagoons—options that the Government a...
Martin Horwood | 478 c633-5 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his intervention, and he is right to highlight the real envi...
Eric Illsley | 478 c637-8 (Link to this contribution) I do not disagree. The question is why we have been left with a liberalised energy market. We have b...
Eric Illsley | 478 c636-7 (Link to this contribution) I take on board your strictures, Mr. Deputy Speaker. This is a timely debate on energy issues, but p...
Speaker | 478 c636 (Link to this contribution) Order. We do not have very long, so it would be helpful if hon. Members took account of that. Back B...
Eric Illsley | 478 c638-40 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. As I said, we have been talking about the issue since 2003, and we must hav...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 478 c629 (Link to this contribution) The option of using clean coal is one that we should keep, which is why we have taken the decisions ...
Brian Iddon | 478 c629 (Link to this contribution) I made the point in Committee that post-combustion capture of carbon is the most inefficient method,...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 478 c629 (Link to this contribution) We made that decision on advice, because it is the most globally relevant technology if one consider...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 478 c630 (Link to this contribution) I do understand that. It is especially unbecoming for Conservative Members to barrack my hon. Friend...
Robert Flello | 478 c629-30 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend understand the great sadness felt by my constituents and others in north S...
Peter Bone | 478 c630 (Link to this contribution) I have listened carefully to the Secretary of State's long speech, but he has not mentioned the fail...
David TC Davies | 478 c632 (Link to this contribution) It always puzzles me how people from the hon. Gentleman's party can talk about an 80 per cent. cut i...
Martin Horwood | 478 c631-2 (Link to this contribution) We welcome the opportunity for this debate. It is timely given the state of the international energy...
Martin Horwood | 478 c632 (Link to this contribution) I shall come to explain how we would do that in the course of my remarks. The hon. Gentleman should ...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 478 c626 (Link to this contribution) I hope the hon. Gentleman feels better for that. I agree with him about the scale of our ambition. A...
Jamie Reed | 478 c626 (Link to this contribution) Before my right hon. Friend departs from the issue of nuclear, on skills retention and development i...
David Leslie Taylor | 478 c629 (Link to this contribution) Does the Secretary of State agree with me that thousands of millions of tonnes of coal remain to be ...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 478 c628 (Link to this contribution) I have not seen that comment, and I do not believe that the ambition we have set out for nuclear is ...
Anne Main | 478 c628 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for giving way. Will he briefly address the comments of Hamish Robert...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 478 c627-8 (Link to this contribution) I have not yet quite finished this point. I will give way to the hon. Lady shortly. [Interruption.] ...
Anne Main | 478 c627 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Lord Hutton of Furness | 478 c627 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend probably knows more about the nuclear industry than any other Member, having worked i...
Richard Ottaway | 478 c625 (Link to this contribution) The nuclear industry is complaining of a shortage of skills in the sector. Its main complaint is tha...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 478 c625 (Link to this contribution) I strongly agree with my hon. Friend. I think that we must keep the option of clean coal on the tabl...
David TC Davies | 478 c626 (Link to this contribution) While we may disagree on other matters, does the Secretary of State not share my concern that, parad...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 478 c625-6 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman; the issue of skills is a potential key bottleneck in the United Kin...
Paul Flynn | 478 c624-5 (Link to this contribution) On the question of costs, how has my right hon. Friend become bewitched by the pied piper of nuclear...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 478 c624 (Link to this contribution) We have to be aware of the impact not just on consumers, but on industry. I want to come to that in ...
David Hamilton | 478 c625 (Link to this contribution) Some of us are sitting on the fence in relation to nuclear power, and like others I am still to be c...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 478 c625 (Link to this contribution) I do not think we should say no to any low-carbon form of power generation. Nuclear power is a prove...
Peter Bone | 478 c651 (Link to this contribution) The Minister did not deal with my earlier comments about his banging his head against the bedroom do...
John Redwood | 478 c651 (Link to this contribution) When does the Minister believe that the first new nuclear power station under the Government's plans...
Malcolm Wicks | 478 c651 (Link to this contribution) I recall how many power stations were built under the Administration of whom the right hon. Gentlema...
Malcolm Wicks | 478 c649 (Link to this contribution) I beg the right hon. Gentleman's pardon; I do not have time. I heard his earlier comments, which wer...
Malcolm Wicks | 478 c648-9 (Link to this contribution) We have had a lively and wide-ranging debate, ostensibly about the security of the energy supply but...
Malcolm Wicks | 478 c650-1 (Link to this contribution) I take note of what happens all over the world. I cannot comment on the projects that the hon. Gentl...
Oliver Heald | 478 c650 (Link to this contribution) The Minister criticised me for saying that it was wrong to put three wind turbines in a small valley...
Malcolm Wicks | 478 c649-50 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has already expressed that approach, and I cannot now give way to him. The hon. ...
Peter Bone | 478 c645 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the Mayor of London is listening to this debate with great interest. Finally, why not...
Charles Hendry | 478 c645-6 (Link to this contribution) This has been an important, but somewhat brief debate. Nevertheless, we have covered good ground dur...
Charles Hendry | 478 c646-8 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State says, ““Hardly””, but we did it well ahead of the Government. We pushed for f...
Martin Horwood | 478 c644 (Link to this contribution) Surely the point about biofuels is that without proper sustainability criteria, the hon. Gentleman s...
Peter Bone | 478 c644-5 (Link to this contribution) That is entirely right, and if I had the time I would have argued for sustainability. The situation ...
Ian Gibson | 478 c644 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman aware that the Government's chief scientific adviser, Professor Beddington, ha...
Peter Bone | 478 c644 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. I should declare an interest as listed in the Register of Members' Interests and say that I...
Brian Binley | 478 c643 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman's comments. I was not opposing such developments at that time—I...
Peter Bone | 478 c643-4 (Link to this contribution) It is a great honour to follow my Northamptonshire colleague, my hon. Friend the Member for Northamp...
Brian Binley | 478 c642-3 (Link to this contribution) You will be delighted to know, Mr. Deputy Speaker, that I had planned to make the most moving and ef...
David Hamilton | 478 c643 (Link to this contribution) Could the hon. Gentleman row back a little in saying that he is disappointed with this Government? T...
Oliver Heald | 478 c641-2 (Link to this contribution) I was making the point that we can all save energy. We can all influence what happens in our country...
Jamie Reed | 478 c641 (Link to this contribution) I regret that the hon. Gentleman has sought to misrepresent my views, but I admire the fact that he ...
Oliver Heald | 478 c641 (Link to this contribution) It surprises me that the Labour party has forgotten everything that Tony Blair taught it. There was ...
Jamie Reed | 478 c641 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman share my concern about microgeneration, which is perhaps something of a midd...
Oliver Heald | 478 c640-1 (Link to this contribution) As ever, the hon. Member for Barnsley, Central (Mr. Illsley) has brought some Yorkshire common sense...
Peter Bone | 478 c637 (Link to this contribution) I hope that I am not going to anticipate the point that the hon. Gentleman is about to make. The lib...
Peter Bone | 478 c644 (Link to this contribution) I realise that I have got very little time, so I will try to deal with that point straight away. One...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 478 c620 (Link to this contribution) No, I was listening to the hon. Gentleman's comments, and I want to talk about what I understand his...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 478 c620 (Link to this contribution) I strongly agree with my hon. Friend, and I pay tribute to his lifetime support for the nuclear indu...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 478 c630-1 (Link to this contribution) We have made progress in that regard. The hon. Gentleman will be aware of the recent outcome of the ...
Mike Weir | 478 c622-3 (Link to this contribution) I hear what the right hon. Gentleman is saying about offshore wind, which is clearly an important wa...
John Redwood | 478 c620 (Link to this contribution) If a company wanted to embark on getting planning permission to build a nuclear power station today,...
Brian Iddon | 478 c616 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful. There is 9.3 GW of renewable energy waiting to come on to the national grid. What is ...
David Hamilton | 478 c638 (Link to this contribution) May I make the point to which I think my hon. Friend is alluding? We need to stabilise the market in...
John Redwood | 478 c621-2 (Link to this contribution) Why did the Government spend the previous years increasing taxes and tweaking the tax system against...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 478 c627 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Lady allow me to speak for a little longer? We are beginning to develop an important ...
Robert Flello | 478 c624 (Link to this contribution) Indeed, that impact will be not only on everyday folk through their energy use, but on companies in ...
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Conservation
Coal
Climate change
Carbon capture and storage
Finance
Environment protection
Energy
Energy supply
Electricity
Fuel poverty
Fuels
Imports
Oil
Natural gas
Nuclear power
Prices
Microgeneration
Storage
Renewable energy
Wave power
Tidal power
Winter fuel payment
Carbon emissions
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