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HANSARDTopical QuestionsAbsolutely. This is about delivering what we promised when we were elected: home-grown clean power, so that we can get bills down, create jobs, get energy security and, crucially,…06 Jan 2026HANSARDBudget ResolutionsI will in a moment. On the one hand, 60% of these people are working—and the Conservatives do not really want to explain why they want to cut help for those people. But let us…01 Dec 2025HANSARDBudget ResolutionsWell, the hon. Gentleman’s question is out of date, because, in case he had not noticed, we changed the policy on winter fuel payments. Let me just say this to him: he will have…01 Dec 2025HANSARDBudget ResolutionsThe hon. Gentleman says from a sedentary position that that is absurd, but it is not. The Conservatives believe in punishing children—01 Dec 2025HANSARDBudget ResolutionsIt is a privilege to open this Budget debate on a theme of paramount importance to our country: the cost of living crisis facing Britain’s families. Whatever our party, we should…01 Dec 2025HANSARDBudget ResolutionsI will give way in a moment—let me make my point. The Conservatives believe in punishing children for having another brother or sister. Children with only one sibling—two children…01 Dec 2025HANSARDBudget ResolutionsI will not, for a few minutes. The result is new jobs building wind turbines at Siemens Gamesa in Hull, new jobs making transformers in Stafford, new jobs making heat pumps in…01 Dec 2025HANSARDBudget ResolutionsI will in a moment—let me develop my argument. The Conservatives say that this was their idea in the first place, but there is a crucial difference: they proposed abolishing the…01 Dec 2025HANSARDBudget ResolutionsI will make a bit more progress. The second policy I wish to focus on is the Chancellor’s decision to take £150 off the cost of energy bills—that will be important for families…01 Dec 2025HANSARDBudget ResolutionsBut they had with no way of paying for it. “Yes”, says the hon. Gentleman. This is quite extraordinary—all the sins of opposition combined into one. The Conservatives had 14 years…01 Dec 2025HANSARDBudget ResolutionsThis is all about working people, as I tried to explain earlier in my speech. Sixty per cent of people— [ Interruption. ] Please listen for a second. Sixty per cent of families…01 Dec 2025HANSARDBudget ResolutionsLet me make a bit more progress. My second point is about public spending. In the spending review and the Budget, my right hon. Friend the Chancellor made the crucial decision not…01 Dec 2025HANSARDBudget ResolutionsIf we look at the average of bills in 2025 versus 2024, they are lower. I hope that the hon. Lady will support our cuts to energy bills in April, when they come in.01 Dec 2025HANSARDBudget Resolutions“Yes”, says the hon. Gentleman—although, of course, he was an Energy Minister and he never did it. [ Interruption. ] He looks a bit sheepish now, doesn’t he? That is rare for him.…01 Dec 2025HANSARDBudget ResolutionsMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. When we recently announced the small modular reactor fleet at Wylfa in north Wales, we saw the huge opportunities, not just for the areas where…01 Dec 2025HANSARDBudget ResolutionsThe mandate that the British people voted for was a mandate to change this country, given the problems that we inherited from the last Government.01 Dec 2025HANSARDBudget ResolutionsLet me develop my argument, because this point is crucial: we can tackle the affordability crisis that people face only by investing in the future. Our vision of what makes an…01 Dec 2025HANSARDBudget ResolutionsI have already given way to the hon. Gentleman. With Russia still at war in Ukraine, with deep tensions in the middle east, and with NATO being tested, this is ridiculous…01 Dec 2025HANSARDBudget ResolutionsI will not.01 Dec 2025HANSARDBudget ResolutionsYes, the right hon. Lady says. The Conservatives are the people who lost it all in the fossil fuel casino, and now they say, “Let me just have one more go at the roulette wheel.…01 Dec 2025