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Energy and Climate Change and Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Queen's speech debate on Tuesday, 24 November 2009, in the House of Commons, led by Ed Miliband. The answering member was Greg Clark.
Queen's speech debate (fourth day) on energy and climate change, and environment, food and rural affairs.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
501 c405-504 
Session
2009-10
Department
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Department of Energy and Climate Change
Procedure
Addresses to the Crown
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Hilary Benn | 501 c503-4 (Link to this contribution) I fundamentally disagree with the right hon. Gentleman's accusation of complacency, because that is ...
Lord Lilley | 501 c503 (Link to this contribution) Does the Secretary of State share the extraordinary complacency of his right hon. Friend the Secreta...

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Hilary Benn | 501 c503 (Link to this contribution) I accept what the hon. Gentleman says about our improved capacity to warn. One of the benefits of th...
Martin Horwood | 501 c502-3 (Link to this contribution) May I pursue the point about warnings of surface water flooding? It was clear even two and half year...
Hilary Benn | 501 c501 (Link to this contribution) The plan is indeed that it should be available before Christmas. We have already had the interim rep...
Linda Gilroy | 501 c501 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give us an assurance that the Walker report on metering and charging will ...
Mike Weir | 501 c492-3 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry. Time is short. Setting the fiscal regime will be extremely important. The oil industry ...
Brian Binley | 501 c489 (Link to this contribution) Except Chelsea; the Secretary of State is absolutely right. It can afford to do so because it is so ...
Mike Weir | 501 c490-2 (Link to this contribution) Many hon. Members have expressed sympathy for the people of Cumbria in the recent floods, and I asso...
Mike Weir | 501 c492 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. Exactly how much oil is recoverable will depend on a number of factors, not least the world ...
Chris McCafferty | 501 c485-8 (Link to this contribution) I apologise for not being in my place at the beginning of the debate, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I did appr...
Lord Swire | 501 c482-5 (Link to this contribution) I shall be astonished if some of these rehashed announcements and Bills go anywhere in the time left...
Roberta Blackman-Woods | 501 c479-82 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to be able to speak in this debate on energy and climate change. These subjects are par...
Tim Farron | 501 c475-9 (Link to this contribution) That is a fair intervention, and I agree that there is a lot wrong with the Bill. It is inadequate i...
Lord Mann | 501 c467-8 (Link to this contribution) No. The hon. Member for North Southwark and Bermondsey is not here, but if he wants to come back, I ...
Martin Horwood | 501 c467 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Lord Mann | 501 c468-71 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I will continue with my speech. "We all know," said a Conservative...
Martin Horwood | 501 c466 (Link to this contribution) Some of the conflicts that the hon. Lady rightly describes could be resolved by more careful examina...
Maria Miller | 501 c463-6 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Llanelli (Nia Griffith), who raised a number of impor...
Nia Griffith | 501 c462 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. I very much agree. It is extremely important that we keep up the pressure, and I urge Minist...
Roger Williams | 501 c462 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady has been very generous in giving way. I very much agree with her. Some houses in my co...
Nia Griffith | 501 c461 (Link to this contribution) One of the difficulties is that people's faith in the maps has been undermined, because they have se...
Laurence Robertson | 501 c458-9 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure that my party has said that. As I understand the policy, it is to scrap the regional a...
David Leslie Taylor | 501 c458 (Link to this contribution) Is it not being disingenuous to the point of dishonesty for the hon. Gentleman's party to suggest th...
David Leslie Taylor | 501 c456 (Link to this contribution) I was on the Select Committee on Environment, Food and Rural Affairs when it reported on the floodin...
Lord Mann | 501 c456 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the hon. Gentleman is not going to ruin a cracking speech by letting off local authoriti...
Laurence Robertson | 501 c456-7 (Link to this contribution) I certainly would not describe Tewkesbury local authority as colourless. It might have no overall co...
Maria Miller | 501 c457 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend share my concern that local authorities' priorities in assessing where houses sh...
Bob Spink | 501 c457 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman believe that the Government should give very firm instructions to their insp...
Laurence Robertson | 501 c457 (Link to this contribution) As I said, I think that PPS25 is inadequate because it does not provide the protection that we need....
Linda Gilroy | 501 c453 (Link to this contribution) Not the Kingstown. I am glad that it is our Front-Bench team who are charged with, once again, playi...
Laurence Robertson | 501 c453-4 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend the Member for Beckenham (Mrs. Lait), who spoke so excellently, said that she sympath...
Linda Gilroy | 501 c454 (Link to this contribution) I simply want to agree with the hon. Gentleman that we need to have more time, particularly on that ...
Bob Spink | 501 c448 (Link to this contribution) Did the hon. Lady share my slight disappointment that the hon. Member for Beckenham (Mrs. Lait)—unin...
Linda Gilroy | 501 c448-51 (Link to this contribution) Indeed, and I shall come to that. I shall also wish to touch on the Bill in my capacity as chair of ...
Linda Gilroy | 501 c448 (Link to this contribution) I thought for a moment that I was at least going to be able to agree with the last point made by the...
Martin Horwood | 501 c451 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady regret that the Flood and Water Management Bill, which has just been published, d...
Brian Binley | 501 c439 (Link to this contribution) May I ask the right hon. Gentleman about the possibility of using North sea wells as carbon storage ...
Malcolm Wicks | 501 c439 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased that, in the last year or so, the fiscal regime has become more sensitive to the curren...
Malcolm Wicks | 501 c442 (Link to this contribution) I have only one more point before coming to my conclusion, and others want to contribute, but I will...
Malcolm Wicks | 501 c437-8 (Link to this contribution) I think that both things are true. We have made immense progress, not least under this Government, b...
Malcolm Wicks | 501 c436 (Link to this contribution) If it is to publicise my out-of-print book, yes.
Simon Hughes | 501 c434-5 (Link to this contribution) The honest answer to my hon. Friend is that I learned that fact yesterday. Those people should be in...
Malcolm Wicks | 501 c436 (Link to this contribution) This has been a very useful debate, with good speeches from all parts of the House, although the spe...
Ed Miliband | 501 c406 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an extremely eloquent point, and one of the most important purposes of the upco...
Lindsay Hoyle | 501 c406 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend has touched on part of the problem, which is that some people are in denial. Ho...
Ed Miliband | 501 c406 (Link to this contribution) I agree absolutely with my hon. Friend.
Joan Walley | 501 c406 (Link to this contribution) I am so grateful to my right hon. Friend. On that point, does he agree that the 10:10 campaign is do...
Ed Miliband | 501 c406 (Link to this contribution) I agree. In the year or so that I have been doing this job, I have learned that we have to remake th...
Lord Swire | 501 c409 (Link to this contribution) One of the greatest polluters is the marine industry, which deploys large supertankers. As the Secre...
Ed Miliband | 501 c407 (Link to this contribution) That is certainly an unusual alliance—George Monbiot and the right hon. Gentleman. In all seriousnes...
John Baron | 501 c408 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Ed Miliband | 501 c408-9 (Link to this contribution) We absolutely support the idea; indeed, Ofgem is bringing in regulations to ensure that people get a...
Ed Miliband | 501 c409-10 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman obviously did not notice the incentive that we have unveiled for electric cars, p...
Andrew Murrison | 501 c409 (Link to this contribution) The Minister briefly mentioned electric cars—indeed, the Prime Minister mentioned them at the G8 in ...
Ed Miliband | 501 c410 (Link to this contribution) I give way to the hon. Gentleman, who is a doughty fighter for clean coal.
Ed Miliband | 501 c409 (Link to this contribution) Controlling the movement of supertankers is tough, but maritime shipping and aviation are important,...
Stephen Crabb | 501 c410-1 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Secretary of State, who is being extremely generous with his time. On clean coa...
David Leslie Taylor | 501 c410 (Link to this contribution) With 800 million tonnes of coal in north-east Leicestershire ready to be extracted, I would be the f...
John Baron | 501 c412 (Link to this contribution) On that point, will the Secretary of State give way?
Ed Miliband | 501 c411-2 (Link to this contribution) I have already given way to the hon. Gentleman. I want to make progress. We are acting in the Bill ...
Ed Miliband | 501 c411 (Link to this contribution) No, they are not, and 2014 has always been part of our criteria for the competition. That remains th...
John Baron | 501 c411 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Ed Miliband | 501 c411 (Link to this contribution) I am in a position not to brag but to say that it is important that we are doing what many hon. Memb...
Willie Rennie | 501 c411 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Secretary of State's support for carbon capture. In West Fife there is certainly suppo...
John Baron | 501 c412 (Link to this contribution) The answer that the Secretary of State gave me about the Ofgem annual statement was, I respectfully ...
Ed Miliband | 501 c412 (Link to this contribution) I do not think that the hon. Gentleman is correct, but if he is I shall be happy to make representat...
Ed Miliband | 501 c413 (Link to this contribution) I am reassured by the Under-Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, my hon. Friend the Mem...
Greg Clark | 501 c415 (Link to this contribution) I begin by expressing my solidarity with what the Secretary of State said about our concerns for the...
Lord Swire | 501 c416 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is talking about the future, but an immediate problem is storage capacity, particular...
Greg Clark | 501 c416 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Lady will be patient, I will answer the Secretary of State's question about that in grea...
Greg Clark | 501 c416 (Link to this contribution) I do not know whether the hon. Lady is with us on the need to decarbonise our production of electric...
Greg Clark | 501 c417-8 (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friend says, that is a legal requirement in many cases. Have we seen such an approach in ...
Greg Clark | 501 c418 (Link to this contribution) I have just been talking about how the Government's approach to the economy very much mirrors their ...
Lord Mann | 501 c420 (Link to this contribution) One group of people who cannot benefit are local authority tenants living in accommodation with comm...
Greg Clark | 501 c421 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that intervention because it allows me to tell the right hon. Gentleman that it wi...
Greg Clark | 501 c423 (Link to this contribution) I completely agree. We have failed across the board to capitalise on our technology. The first indus...
Tim Farron | 501 c423 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman accept that hydropower, particularly in counties such as Cumbria, provides a...
Lord Lilley | 501 c425 (Link to this contribution) Is the right hon. Gentleman aware of the study of all registered climate scientists carried out by D...
Hilary Benn | 501 c501-2 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman will forgive me, time is very short and I want to respond to the debate. The ...
Hilary Benn | 501 c500-1 (Link to this contribution) We have had a very interesting and, at times, lively debate. It was opened by my right hon. Friend t...
Stephen Crabb | 501 c493-6 (Link to this contribution) It is a privilege to participate in what has been a popular and very interesting debate. I begin by ...
Lord Herbert of South Downs | 501 c496-500 (Link to this contribution) This has been a wide-ranging debate. We have heard from a number of hon. Members about the need for ...
Brian Binley | 501 c489-90 (Link to this contribution) The Front-Bench spokesman for the Liberals consistently tries to take every opportunity to thrust hi...
Lord Mann | 501 c471-3 (Link to this contribution) As ever, the hon. Gentleman makes an excellent point on behalf of his constituents, mine and others....
Christopher Fraser | 501 c475 (Link to this contribution) We all have sympathy for the hon. Gentleman's story, but can he clarify his view of the Flood and Wa...
Bob Spink | 501 c471 (Link to this contribution) While the hon. Gentleman is talking about fuel poverty, will he address the problem of prepayment me...
Speaker | 501 c468 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Member is making a quite considerable attack on a Member who is not present. I sugge...
Maria Miller | 501 c466-7 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right to question the numbers. Rather than questioning the numbers myself, I s...
Lord Mann | 501 c467 (Link to this contribution) I have been listening to these speeches about how this is the important issue, and 23 Members of the...
Nia Griffith | 501 c461-2 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. My constituency happens to have that tricky combination: short, steep hills next to a co...
Brian Binley | 501 c461 (Link to this contribution) This whole business has been going on for years. One need only go to the Nene valley and notice wher...
Roger Williams | 501 c460 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady makes important points that apply to both England and Wales. Sometimes, part of the pr...
Nia Griffith | 501 c459-60 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend the Member for Plymouth, Sutton (Linda Gilroy) and the hon. Member for Tewkesbury (Mr...
Laurence Robertson | 501 c457-8 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right, and she very conveniently takes me on to the next point, which c...
Laurence Robertson | 501 c456 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right, and I know the estate that he is talking about. It flooded a...
Laurence Robertson | 501 c455-6 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that intervention. He is absolutely right: we can all draw maps,...
Lord Swire | 501 c456 (Link to this contribution) In his recent statement on the flooding in Cumbria, the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and...
Laurence Robertson | 501 c456 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point. However, I think—I will have to look it up—that local authorities...
Linda Gilroy | 501 c451-2 (Link to this contribution) In common with a number of Liberal Democrats, I have been involved in several Adjournment debates ov...
Linda Gilroy | 501 c452-3 (Link to this contribution) I recognise the issue that the hon. Gentleman is talking about. It might well sit more easily with s...
Laurence Robertson | 501 c454-5 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Lady for that intervention. To be honest, introducing the Bill in recognit...
Brian Binley | 501 c455 (Link to this contribution) Northampton has also suffered floods and we lost two people, so I understand my hon. Friend's commen...
Malcolm Wicks | 501 c442 (Link to this contribution) Of course. We recently had the report on Buncefield, so it is not just a problem of LNG. The point a...
Maria Miller | 501 c444 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman talked about public opinion having moved on the nuclear debate, but does he...
Malcolm Wicks | 501 c439-42 (Link to this contribution) I intended to mention the importance of CCS a little later, but the hon. Gentleman is right to sugge...
Bob Spink | 501 c442 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Lord Swire | 501 c438-9 (Link to this contribution) When the right hon. Gentleman was the Minister for Energy, we debated the issue of North sea oil and...
Mike Weir | 501 c439 (Link to this contribution) Has the hon. Gentleman read the report from the Select Committee on the oil and gas industry? We mad...
Malcolm Wicks | 501 c439 (Link to this contribution) I do understand that point, and I am sure that the Government are aware of it. One of the great dile...
Bob Spink | 501 c442 (Link to this contribution) Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that some of the imported gas will come in the form of liquefied p...
Linda Gilroy | 501 c437 (Link to this contribution) It certainly is; I was at the Age Concern conference where my right hon. Friend published his book o...
Paul Robert Holmes | 501 c435 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend not agree that, in costing nuclear power, the Government must include the huge c...
Mark Oaten | 501 c434 (Link to this contribution) Many of the vulnerable people to whom my hon. Friend refers live in park and mobile homes. Is he awa...
Linda Gilroy | 501 c436 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?
Simon Hughes | 501 c435-6 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely agree. The Government's official advisory body on these matters is absolutely clear: we...
Ed Miliband | 501 c405 (Link to this contribution) It is a great privilege to open this debate on the Gracious Speech and its plans on energy and the e...
Lembit Opik | 501 c406 (Link to this contribution) Does the Secretary of State get very frustrated, as I do, by the small number of deniers who still t...
Daniel Kawczynski | 501 c406 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman started by talking about flooding, and many of us who represent constituenc...
Lindsay Hoyle | 501 c406 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?
Lord Lilley | 501 c407 (Link to this contribution) I could not agree more with the Secretary of State when he says that we need to have confidence in t...
Ed Miliband | 501 c408 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. The hon. Gentleman is right: the standard will change over time. There was severe flooding i...
Tim Farron | 501 c407-8 (Link to this contribution) May I assure the right hon. Gentleman that my constituents need no convincing that climate change is...
Ed Miliband | 501 c408 (Link to this contribution) I will, and then I will make a bit of progress.
John Baron | 501 c408 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State is being very generous in giving way. I am sure that he will agree that if we...
Ed Miliband | 501 c407 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs assures me that ...
Ed Miliband | 501 c409 (Link to this contribution) I hate to tell the hon. Gentleman this, but I think we might be taking more than 38 people to Copenh...
Ed Miliband | 501 c410 (Link to this contribution) The plan is that the money starts to flow from 2011, subject to the House passing the Energy Bill. T...
Brian Binley | 501 c410 (Link to this contribution) I am always pleased to hear the Minister's words on clean coal, as he knows. However, we talk glibly...
Simon Hughes | 501 c409 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State has repeated that shipping, like aviation, is hugely important if we are to g...
Ed Miliband | 501 c410 (Link to this contribution) It is important to say that the position on open-cast mining has not changed and the planning guidan...
Ed Miliband | 501 c412 (Link to this contribution) I am going to be very generous to the hon. Gentleman.
Lord Mann | 501 c412 (Link to this contribution) A number of people in my constituency would like to use less electricity, but unfortunately the comm...
Ed Miliband | 501 c413-5 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes his point eloquently. My hon. Friend the Minister of State and the hon. Member ...
Ed Miliband | 501 c412-3 (Link to this contribution) I thought that we were rather in favour of community heating, but perhaps not in the case that my ho...
Mike Weir | 501 c413 (Link to this contribution) I support what the Secretary of State said about mandatory social tariffs, but we need to introduce ...
David Leslie Taylor | 501 c413 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for giving way for a second time. Social tariffs drive down electricity...
Greg Clark | 501 c416 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right and it is completely inadequate. The Energy Bill was an opportunity to take ...
Julie Kirkbride | 501 c416 (Link to this contribution) If Labour Members want a lesson in history, they need only look back some five years, when the Gover...
Greg Clark | 501 c416 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. Indeed, the Government have failed to take the right decisions on all of th...
Nia Griffith | 501 c416 (Link to this contribution) How did the Conservatives' policies in the 1980s help to secure energy supplies—they wrecked the coa...
Laurence Robertson | 501 c417 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend talks about the weakness of the Energy Bill, but he will recall that the Government p...
Greg Clark | 501 c417 (Link to this contribution) It has been a consistent tendency of the Government's over the past 12 years to behave like an ostri...
Greg Clark | 501 c418 (Link to this contribution) No, I am talking about a fiscal stimulus more generally. The right hon. Gentleman knows that we have...
Lord Swire | 501 c419 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that one of the Government's biggest omissions has been in not considering...
Greg Clark | 501 c421 (Link to this contribution) I want to make some progress. Many hon. Members want to speak and I have already taken several inter...
Ed Miliband | 501 c420 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman knows that we have published our own home energy efficiency plan for 700 million ...
Greg Clark | 501 c420 (Link to this contribution) I cannot understand why the Secretary of State does not listen if not to me, then to his own speeche...
Greg Clark | 501 c420 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman to the extent that, if people are having to open their windows to ma...
Greg Clark | 501 c419-20 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. When we were designing our green deal, we were determined that the limit of...
John Battle | 501 c421 (Link to this contribution) I want to be absolutely clear about what the hon. Gentleman is offering the people. If he is offerin...
Lord Prescott | 501 c424-5 (Link to this contribution) I want to address my remarks to the climate change negotiations. They are critical and I think that ...
Greg Clark | 501 c421-3 (Link to this contribution) I must make some progress now, if the hon. Lady will forgive me. I want to talk about an area where...
Tim Farron | 501 c423 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Greg Clark | 501 c423 (Link to this contribution) I will give way one more time.
Lord Prescott | 501 c425-7 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that studies come up with such results, but I do not think that the people who disagree wi...
Simon Hughes | 501 c429-31 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure and a privilege to follow the right hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull, East (Mr. P...
Lord Swire | 501 c427 (Link to this contribution) I understand the right hon. Gentleman is spending an increasing amount of time in China and is getti...
Lord Prescott | 501 c427-8 (Link to this contribution) That is an interesting point because each industrial country, as it begins to grow, has to get its r...
Simon Hughes | 501 c432-3 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend and many other colleagues have consistently made that point to Government. Not only i...
Simon Hughes | 501 c431-2 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. His point applies particularly to young people, but huge num...
Simon Hughes | 501 c433-4 (Link to this contribution) I do not want the whole debate to be dominated by this topic, but I have read the trailer for and th...
Greg Clark | 501 c423-4 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman says that he has done it, but he has not brought it to this House to be rat...
Speaker | 501 c479 (Link to this contribution) Order. Before I call the next hon. Member to speak, may I inform the House that six other hon. Membe...
Martin Horwood | 501 c452 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady also regret that nothing in the Bill addresses the crucial problem that people's ...
Roberta Blackman-Woods | 501 c416 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a valid point about the need for more energy in the future, and particularl...
Peter Ainsworth | 501 c419 (Link to this contribution) I assure my hon. Friend that this litany of woe is all too familiar to me. Will he comment on the la...
Mark Oaten | 501 c432 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend share my concern that oil and liquefied petroleum gas should be covered by those...
Martin Horwood | 501 c489 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman join the Liberal Democrats in supporting a European super-grid, which could ...
Brian Binley | 501 c488-9 (Link to this contribution) I want to raise the issue of the strategic balance of our future energy policy, which I feel that we...
Tim Farron | 501 c473-5 (Link to this contribution) It is an honour to follow the hon. Member for Bassetlaw (John Mann) in what may be quite an importan...
Jacqui Lait | 501 c444-8 (Link to this contribution) I hope that it will not embarrass my next-door constituency neighbour, the right hon. Member for Cro...
Malcolm Wicks | 501 c444 (Link to this contribution) There are lessons to be learned: we mentioned health and safety in respect of LNG, so it needs to be...
Lord Swire | 501 c442-3 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for giving way a second time. To answer his question about...
Linda Gilroy | 501 c418 (Link to this contribution) Could the hon. Gentleman therefore explain why his party voted against the financial stimulus, which...
Ed Miliband | 501 c418 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has just said something significant. He said that we cannot afford the £400 milli...
Greg Clark | 501 c419 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is completely right. It is a real disappointment that the Energy Bill does not contai...
Greg Clark | 501 c433 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman asked a fair question. Clearly, if we are recovering costs through savings on peo...
Malcolm Wicks | 501 c443-4 (Link to this contribution) The short answer is yes. We need to have that requirement for commercial storage—my guess is that th...
Ed Miliband | 501 c406 (Link to this contribution) My goodness, what a range of choices. I give way first to my hon. Friend the Member for Stoke-on-Tre...
Mike Weir | 501 c431 (Link to this contribution) I am listening carefully to the hon. Gentleman, and I very much agree with him on the need for speed...
Subjects
Climate change
Energy
Electricity generation
Energy supply
Floods
Property development
Utilities
Renewable energy
Carbon emissions
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