Energy Spending Priorities: Investors and Consumers

The evidence might well lead my hon. Friend to take that view. That is happening in tandem with t...

The hon. Gentleman mentions how critical CCS is to the UK’s decarbonisation, and I for one hope t...

It is not simply a unilateral UK issue. CCS is in Canada and Norway. The fact that, unfortunately...

One of the report’s recommendations is for clarity over the three CfD auctions. I have not seen t...

I refer the hon. Gentleman to the report. We have had only one response on carbon capture and sto...

This comes to the nub of the issue with investment in this area. The Government are completely un...

My hon. Friend is absolutely correct—I have to get used to saying “my hon. Friend”, because for t...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

I would be delighted to give way to my great friend on the Committee—I do have friends across the...

There clearly was a need for review, which we saw last week when the National Farmers Union gave ...

The hon. Lady makes a good point, and if she wants to pull the very wealthy out of those schemes ...

Previous efforts have tended to end up being implemented in more urban areas, but those who are p...

As a rural MP, I am aware of that issue. The hon. Member for Eddisbury (Antoinette Sandbach) is a...

Does the Chair of the Committee have anything to say about the almost collapse of solid wall insu...

It is always with certain trepidation that I give way to the hon. Gentleman, because what he does...

I rise to echo the Select Committee Chair’s thanks not only to the Committee staff but to the num...

Allied to that—this might sound like a constituency interest, but it does not just affect my cons...

I am of course aware that the Scottish Government have a great deal of involvement in energy poli...

I hear what the hon. Lady is saying, but would she admit that previous spending has led to invest...

I certainly would, and I will come to that point in touching on the home efficiency section of th...

Does my hon. Friend agree that this is not just about energy efficiency? Many homes use liquid ga...

I certainly do agree and the Government are reviewing the renewable heat incentive at the moment....

The hon. Lady is making a characteristically good speech and raising many points on which I suppo...

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Order. Six Members still wish to speak and we also have two Front-Bench winding-up speeches to co...

You will be glad to know, Madam Deputy Speaker, that home efficiency is my final point.

I u...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Eddisbury (Antoinette Sandbach). She has made a ve...

I was interested in what the hon. Gentleman said a few moments ago about the effect of the levy c...

The hon. Gentleman—the Chair of the Committee—is right to raise those questions. The effect on th...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Southampton, Test (Dr Whitehead) who, as ever, spo...

The hon. Gentleman says that CCS is not “commercial”, whatever that means. The point I made was a...

We can spend a long time talking about the word “commercial” in that context. The former Energy M...

In these days of uncertainty, one thing is certain: if we are going to go it alone in the big bad...

The Government have approved the fifth carbon budget—the framework of all frameworks. That is the...

Will my hon. Friend give way?

I do not think there is time for my hon. Friend to come in. With that, I will sit down.

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I congratulate the hon. Member for Na h-Eileanan an Iar (Mr MacNeil) on securing this debate and ...

In Northern Ireland we have fuel poverty levels of 35%-plus—the highest in all the United Kingdom...

I certainly agree that we need a plan that goes much wider, reaches a lot more homes, and focuses...

Here we are again: yet another estimates day debate where the one thing that does not actually ge...

I welcome the fact that we are debating these important Energy and Climate Change Committee repor...

My hon. Friend raises a good point. It would be useful if DECC laid out what the three most likel...

I would go further than saying that that would be useful; it is absolutely essential. It behoves ...

I thank the hon. Member for Na h-Eileanan an Iar (Mr MacNeil) and his Committee for initiating th...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

I cannot, I am afraid, because of the time constraints.

The Chancellor will not have to mak...

I welcome the hon. Member for Brent North (Barry Gardiner) to his place. I am grateful to all hon...

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Just before the debate finishes, the shadow Secretary ...

That is more of an intervention than a point of order and the Secretary of State may want to addr...

I am grateful for the opportunity to correct any misunderstanding that the hon. Member for Brent ...

I thank the Secretary of State for giving way because this is incredibly important. The chief exe...

I thank the hon. Lady. Let us just agree that there is no change to the exciting development taki...

I would have liked to hear some timings on CCS from the Secretary of State. Many in the industry ...