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Public Ownership of Energy Companies

Backbench debate and e-petition debate on Monday, 31 October 2022, in the House of Commons, led by Martyn Day. The answering member was George Freeman.
Motion, That this House has considered e-petition 608056, relating to public ownership of energy companies. Agreed to on question.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
721 cc247-274WH 
Session
2022-23
Chamber / Committee
Westminster Hall
Public ownership of energy companies
Friday, 28 October 2022
Research briefings
Proceeding contributions
Martyn Day | 721 c247WH (Link to this contribution)

I beg to move,

That this House has considered e-petition 608056, relating to public ownersh...

Margaret Ferrier | 721 c247WH (Link to this contribution)

In August, the Financial Times estimated that if a buyer was not found for Bulb the cost to the p...


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Martyn Day | 721 cc247-251WH (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Lady makes a good point. It is reasonable to say that UK Governments of all stripes have...

Margaret Greenwood | 721 cc250-2WH (Link to this contribution)

It is an honour to serve under your chairmanship this afternoon, Mrs Murray. I pay tribute to eve...

Margaret Ferrier | 721 c252WH (Link to this contribution)

On that point, in September, in response to a written question on an impact assessment for nation...

Margaret Greenwood | 721 c253WH (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Lady raises a really interesting point, and I thank her for it. To me, it speaks of ideo...

Richard Burgon | 721 cc253-4WH (Link to this contribution)

It is a real pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mrs Murray, and a pleasure to follow my hon....

Sam Tarry | 721 cc254-6WH (Link to this contribution)

It is an honour to speak under your chairmanship for the first time, Mrs Murray. This winter, mor...

Alan Brown | 721 cc256-261WH (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to serve under you as Chair, Mrs Murray. I commend the petitioners. It is clear ...

Sheryll Murray | 721 c260WH (Link to this contribution)

Before I call the shadow Minister, I understand that people watching the debate online were unabl...

Alan Whitehead | 721 c260WH (Link to this contribution)

Thank you, Mrs Murray.

Before we go any further in this debate, we ought to be clear about ...

Sheryll Murray | 721 c262WH (Link to this contribution)

Order. I remind the hon. Gentleman that he should address the Chair.

Alan Whitehead | 721 cc262-4WH (Link to this contribution)

I apologise, Mrs Murray—I will face the right way from now on.

The grotesque result is that...

George Freeman | 721 c264WH (Link to this contribution)

It is a great pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Murray. May I take this opportunity ...

George Freeman | 721 c264WH (Link to this contribution)

I will just finish this list, if I may. I approach this issue with no ideology, either. All parti...

Margaret Greenwood | 721 c265WH (Link to this contribution)

The Minister is talking about a 25-year strategy. Given that we are facing a climate emergency, c...

George Freeman | 721 c265WH (Link to this contribution)

I will happily set out the explanation for our position, which I think will deal with that point....

Margaret Greenwood | 721 c265WH (Link to this contribution)

I thank the Minister for giving way; he is being generous with his time. He talks about harnessin...

George Freeman | 721 c265WH (Link to this contribution)

I will deal with that point as I come on to explain our position on net zero and the extraordinar...

George Freeman | 721 c265WH (Link to this contribution)

I would like to make some progress as I have hardly even got through my first paragraph, but I wi...

Alan Brown | 721 c265WH (Link to this contribution)

I thank the Minister for giving way again. On energy resilience and his point about harnessing th...

George Freeman | 721 c266WH (Link to this contribution)

I did make clear that I am not the Climate Minister, so I am not going to make that commitment on...

George Freeman | 721 cc266-7WH (Link to this contribution)

No, I am going to make some progress. Since privatisation, the UK’s energy sector has attracted a...

Alan Whitehead | 721 c267WH (Link to this contribution)

Does the Minister agree that, as has been suggested in this debate, quite a lot of the investment...

George Freeman | 721 cc267-8WH (Link to this contribution)

I am not totally sure I understand the question. The point is that we live in a modern global eco...

George Freeman | 721 cc268-9WH (Link to this contribution)

No, I am going to make some progress.

That capacity has happened by harnessing the power of...

Alan Whitehead | 721 c269WH (Link to this contribution)

The Minister is either not hearing what is being said by the Opposition, or he is going out of hi...

George Freeman | 721 c269WH (Link to this contribution)

It is. It is also different, as the record will show, from what Opposition Members said. For an h...

George Freeman | 721 c270WH (Link to this contribution)

Yes, I did, and the record will show it. Those interested in how we might build a modern energy e...

George Freeman | 721 cc270-1WH (Link to this contribution)

No, I have had enough of giving way. All Members are doing is repeating the same points that we h...

Alan Brown | 721 c271WH (Link to this contribution)

To get some sort of level playing field, why is there not a renewable energy investment allowance...

George Freeman | 721 c271WH (Link to this contribution)

I refer the hon. Gentleman to the facts as I have set them out. We are attracting billions of pou...

Margaret Greenwood | 721 c272WH (Link to this contribution)

I thank the Minister for giving way; he is being very generous with his time. Recent reports have...

George Freeman | 721 c272WH (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Lady makes an important point about the particular circumstances of those people on prep...

Alan Whitehead | 721 c272WH (Link to this contribution)

We have not got a policy of nationalisation. The Minister is not telling the truth.

Alan Whitehead | 721 c272WH (Link to this contribution)

Sorry—I am getting very annoyed about this.

George Freeman | 721 cc272-3WH (Link to this contribution)

Thank you, Mrs Murray.

We have heard nothing today about the really exciting opportunities ...

Sheryll Murray | 721 c273WH (Link to this contribution)

Mr Martyn Day, you have two minutes to wind up.

6.9 pm

Martyn Day | 721 cc273-4WH (Link to this contribution)

I am incredibly grateful to the Members who came along today, and I express my thanks to them on ...

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