Fossil Fuels and Cost of Living Increases

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention and join him in paying tribute to Warm This Winte...

The Government seem to have no money for working people, yet when it comes to fossil fuel compani...

I thank the hon. Lady for her intervention, and she will not be surprised that I entirely agree t...

The hon. Lady is making an excellent speech, as she always does, and I could not agree more on th...

I thank the hon. Member for his intervention and I entirely agree. I worry that people who are of...

Like my hon. Friend the Member for Stirling (Alyn Smith), I congratulate the hon. Member on secur...

I thank the hon. Member for his intervention, with which I agree 100%. The nuclear obsession is u...

I, too, congratulate the hon. Lady on securing this debate, and on her important contributions to...

I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his intervention and his kind words. I absolutely agree: the...

The hon. Lady is being generous with her time. I may pre-empt what she was about to come on to. I...

I certainly welcome that intervention and agree entirely on welcoming the use of the contracts fo...

On that point, does the hon. Lady agree that the Government should seek to incentivise further pr...

I thank the hon. Lady for that proposal, which is not one I have looked at, but which sounds inte...

I remind Members to bob if they wish to be called in the debate.

Thank goodness, they are. I call Derek Thomas.

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Thank you, Sir Robert. I commend the hon. Member for Brighton, Pavilion (Caroline Lucas) for secu...

I thank my hon. Friend for allowing me to intervene during his excellent speech. On the subject o...

That is exactly my experience, and it has been my experience for a number of years. It is tragic....

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Robert. I congratulate the hon. Member for...

Apologies, Sir Robert, for missing the start of the debate. The hon. Lady is making a very powerf...

Absolutely. I was present for that statement earlier this week, and the point that the hon. Lady ...

We now move to the Front-Bench contributions. I call Peter Grant.

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Thank you, Sir Robert. I am pleased to begin summing up in this debate, and I commend the hon. Me...

It is a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Sir Robert. I congratulate the hon. Member for Brighton...

I congratulate the hon. Member for Brighton, Pavilion (Caroline Lucas) on securing this important...

I thank the Minister for giving way. I want to say how utterly disappointed I am by the tone that...

I thank the hon. Lady. The cost of living crisis is because of the global position on the price o...

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There are 120,000 jobs, most of them in Scotland, dependent on oil and gas. I was delighted to wi...

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We are a net importer of oil and gas, and we will continue to be. New licences simply help us man...

I am grateful to the Minister for finally giving way. I tactfully point out him that that he has ...

As we know, the price of oil and gas has gone up, and hopefully it will go down again and become ...

Of course they are.

A reduction in tax from a level that is way above that which any other type of company pays in th...

Several of us around the Chamber have said that the vast majority of the energy extracted from Ro...

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Order. The Minister will complete his concluding remarks and the hon. Lady will get a few minutes...

To deal with prepayment meters, which the hon. Lady raised, Ofgem has rules in place that restric...

I thank hon. Members for their contributions to the debate. I also thank the Minister, although f...