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HANSARDMaking Britain a Clean Energy SuperpowerI would happily answer that point. The point the hon. Gentleman should understand is that a thriving oil and gas sector unlocks investment in other renewables. There are people…09 Nov 2023HANSARDMaking Britain a Clean Energy SuperpowerI thank my hon. Friend. We are working at pace to have the fastest competition possible. We have just moved past the first part of the process and will be setting out more details…09 Nov 2023HANSARDMaking Britain a Clean Energy SuperpowerI will make some progress. Oil and gas is an industry that supports 200,000 jobs and is expected to provide £50 billion of tax revenue in the next five years. That is the people…09 Nov 2023HANSARDMaking Britain a Clean Energy SuperpowerIt is not a gimmick to protect 200,000 jobs. It is not a gimmick to protect the investment that will go into the cleaner energies of the future. On the hon. Lady’s first point,…09 Nov 2023HANSARDMaking Britain a Clean Energy SuperpowerMy hon. Friend makes an important point. We are lucky to have the skills, expertise and equipment in this country, which are the same skills that we need for a future in renewable…09 Nov 2023HANSARD Net Zero by 2050We care about climate change, which is why we have the most ambitious targets of any major economy. That is what we have delivered on to date, and that is what we will be…16 Oct 2023HANSARD Net Zero by 2050The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right to articulate the potential of carbon capture and storage. Earlier in the year, we set out the £20 billion package—a large package by…16 Oct 2023HANSARD Net Zero by 2050The point of our proposals is to make sure that people have choice, that we can bring people with us and that people can live their lives in the way they want to. We can enable…16 Oct 2023HANSARD Net Zero by 2050We have set out our position on the zero-emission mandate. However, we are also looking at synthetic fuels. As I said, we are consulting on them for aviation, and we can look at…16 Oct 2023HANSARD Net Zero by 2050My hon. Friend is a doughty campaigner for all the industries in her area. Our ambition is to tackle the challenge with the grid. We will be setting out for the first time a…16 Oct 2023HANSARD Net Zero by 2050I completely agree with my hon. Friend’s points about the grid. Every single person in the sector I have spoken to has said that the announcements we have made about the grid are…16 Oct 2023HANSARD Net Zero by 2050The hon. Gentleman is right to point out that we spent £40 billion last year helping people with their energy bills, paying on average half of people’s energy bills to support…16 Oct 2023HANSARD Net Zero by 2050We are not rolling back from our targets at all; I agree with the Climate Change Committee’s assessment that there is no material difference between the projections in June and…16 Oct 2023HANSARD Net Zero by 2050We are confident that we can meet those targets, and we see opportunities in the transition ahead of us—we see jobs, investment and opportunities to export British products around…16 Oct 2023HANSARD Net Zero by 2050The hon. Gentleman is right to talk about offshore wind as an exciting industry, which has done incredibly well under our contracts for difference programme. We are looking at…16 Oct 2023HANSARD Net Zero by 2050I thank the hon. Lady, but that takes some gall when the Labour party left the proportion of energy-efficient homes in this country at 14% and we have taken it to 50%. I have set…16 Oct 2023HANSARD Net Zero by 2050As I said, the climate transition presents huge opportunities for this country and the people of this country when it comes to jobs, investment and improving our energy security.…16 Oct 2023HANSARD Net Zero by 2050I set out earlier the amount that we are spending on insulation: £6 billion in this Parliament, with a further £6 billion to 2028 and an additional £5 billion through the energy…16 Oct 2023HANSARD Net Zero by 2050With permission, I would like to make a statement on the Prime Minister’s announcement on net zero. Britain has led the world on tackling climate change. We have cut our carbon…16 Oct 2023HANSARD Net Zero by 2050I thank the hon. Gentleman for his questions. Let me be clear: there has been no watering down of our targets. We have the most ambitious decarbonising targets of any major…16 Oct 2023