Well, I am going to have to think about that one for a few minutes before coming back with a substantive response. I will say, however, that it is not wise to talk about reducing people’s access to electricity at a time when we want to be saying to businesses across the world, “Come to the United Kingdom and invest.” We are not going to be able to compete with anyone on the basis of labour costs; indeed, we do not want to compete on that basis. We do, however, want to be able to say to business, “If you come here, you’re going to get a large and reliable source of electricity.”
Energy Bill
Proceeding contribution from
David TC Davies
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 4 June 2013.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Energy Bill.
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