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HANSARD Great British Energy BillI am sorry, but I will make some progress. Finally—this is really important—the Secretary of State pays lip service to nuclear, but we know that when Labour was last in power it…05 Sept 2024HANSARD Great British Energy BillI will give way in a second. The Secretary of State is setting up a new body when our energy sector is not short of state-run bodies. We have Ofgem, the National Energy System…05 Sept 2024HANSARD Great British Energy BillI will. This is a critical point, which I have made in recent weeks. The point about having longer to decarbonise is that it gives time to develop British supply chains. That is…05 Sept 2024HANSARD Great British Energy BillThis is really important, because we are talking about taxpayers’ money. Those were small-time projects with budgets in the tens of millions, but the Secretary of State is asking…05 Sept 2024HANSARD Great British Energy BillI absolutely agree with my hon. Friend, and I will come on to that point. There will be a vote next week on the winter fuel payment—I think the Government have confirmed that.…05 Sept 2024HANSARD Great British Energy BillI thank my right hon. Friend for his intervention. It is always a pleasure to see him in the Chamber making excellent points. The question that I have is this: why has the…05 Sept 2024HANSARD Great British Energy BillI will not; I will continue. Once again, we simply have no answers. I find all this very strange, because at our last encounter in this House, the Secretary of State was keen to…05 Sept 2024HANSARD Great British Energy BillI beg to move an amendment to leave out from “That” to the end of the Question, and insert: “this House, while recognising the need to cut household energy bills for families,…05 Sept 2024HANSARD Great British Energy BillIf the hon. Lady would bravely like to say that the company will generate energy, I am sure that she would like to tell us how much, because no one else seems able to.05 Sept 2024HANSARD Great British Energy BillThat is a very fair question. I hope that the energy Minister, who I assume will wrap up the debate, will be able to provide some detail. Far from being a super-nerd, the truth is…05 Sept 2024HANSARD Making Britain a Clean Energy SuperpowerI thank the hon. Gentleman, but as I said, we have to look at the full system cost. He is very experienced in the energy sector, and he knows as well as I do that the flexible…26 Jul 2024HANSARD Making Britain a Clean Energy SuperpowerThank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, and may I say how wonderful it is to see you in the Chair? I warmly welcome the Under-Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, the…26 Jul 2024HANSARD Making Britain a Clean Energy SuperpowerI have enormous respect for the hon. Lady, but I disagree, particularly on nuclear, because every single operational nuclear power plant in this country was started by…26 Jul 2024HANSARD Clean Energy Superpower MissionI would like to put on the record my disappointment not to get the statement in good time. I know that the right hon. Gentleman will want to provide us with the same courtesy that…18 Jul 2024HANSARDOil and Gas Overlaps: Offshore Wind ProjectsThe North Sea Transition Authority has announced three tranches of licences from the 33rd oil and gas licensing round. Production from these licences will support our world-class…24 May 2024HANSARDCarbon BudgetsEarlier this week we were proud to be able to announce that we had decided to forgo the option to carry forward any over-performance from the third carbon budget to the fourth…24 May 2024HANSARDLarge-scale Nuclear Power Station: WylfaIn January this Government published the civil nuclear road map, which represented the biggest expansion of nuclear power for 70 years. It set out our ambition for 25% of our…22 May 2024HANSARDNet Zero TargetWe are on track to reach net zero by 2050, and we will do so in a way that brings the public with us. We overachieved on our third carbon budget by 15%, and we announce today that…21 May 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsI thank the hon. Lady for her question. During my career, I have looked at the issue of prepayment meters for a long time, and one of the things that I am proudest of is our…21 May 2024HANSARDNet Zero TargetI know from experience that my hon. Friend is a doughty champion for his local area and for the aviation sector. My Department is in regular contact with the Department for…21 May 2024