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HANSARDEnergy Security SummitOn 24 and 25 April 2025, at Lancaster House, the UK Government partnered with the International Energy Agency to convene the first global summit on the future of energy security.…28 Apr 2025HANSARDRenewable Energy: Workers’ RightsFor this Government, good pay and conditions for workers and the role of trade unions must be at the heart of the renewable energy sector, because that is the only route to a fair…18 Mar 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsBritain produces 1% of global climate emissions. China is the world’s largest emitter, yet no UK Energy Secretary has visited it in eight years to make the case for it to do more.…18 Mar 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI deeply regret the direction in which the hon. Gentleman is going. The Climate Change Committee does incredibly important work. We will look at CB7, but the biggest cost we face…18 Mar 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsThis, among many others, is a very, very important potential project and the hon. Gentleman is right to make the case for it. Green hydrogen is absolutely part of our energy mix…18 Mar 2025HANSARDRenewable Energy: Workers’ RightsMy hon. Friend is a brilliant advocate for her constituency, and on this issue of manufacturing jobs. If we look at what this Government are doing—from GB Energy to the national…18 Mar 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe right hon. Gentleman and I do not necessarily agree on everything, but on this we do agree. The transformation of the West Burton site from a fossil fuel-fired power station…18 Mar 2025HANSARDWarm Homes PlanOur warm homes plan will upgrade up to 5 million homes with technologies such as heat pumps, solar panels and insulation, helping families to lower bills and improve their homes.…18 Mar 2025HANSARDWarm Homes PlanMy hon. Friend raises a number of important issues. It is about having a tough regulator in Ofgem, it is about smart meters that work, and it is about every decision the…18 Mar 2025HANSARDWarm Homes PlanMy hon. Friend speaks with great expertise about these issues. She will know that the Minister for Energy Consumers, my hon. Friend the Member for Peckham (Miatta Fahnbulleh), put…18 Mar 2025HANSARDWarm Homes PlanThe hon. Gentleman raises an important issue. I believe I am right in saying—I was checking with the Minister for Energy Consumers—that as part of the consultation on energy…18 Mar 2025HANSARDClean Power by 2030I support the Acorn project; it is really important. For reasons that the hon. Member will understand, the right time to make decisions will be at the spending review in June.18 Mar 2025HANSARDClean Power by 2030We are driving forward at speed to deliver clean power by 2030. Last week, the Government introduced the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, which will enable the biggest expansion…18 Mar 2025HANSARDClean Power by 2030I always like visiting north London, and I would very much like to accept an invitation from my hon. Friend. He makes a really serious and important point about community energy.…18 Mar 2025HANSARDClean Power by 2030I do not know whether the right hon. Gentleman, for whom I have great respect, was present when the Under-Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, my hon. Friend the…18 Mar 2025HANSARDClean Power by 2030My hon. Friend should not be so shy and retiring. He makes a really important point. I listened to the interim shadow Secretary of State, the hon. Member for West Aberdeenshire…18 Mar 2025HANSARDCarbon Capture and StorageThe £21.7 billion of funding to which we committed in October will kick-start the carbon capture, usage and storage industry, supporting thousands of jobs in our industrial…18 Mar 2025HANSARDCarbon Capture and StorageMy hon. Friend is entirely right about this. We have learned over the last decade and more that this is the biggest jobs opportunity of the 21st century. Nowhere is that more true…18 Mar 2025HANSARDCarbon Capture and StorageI congratulate my hon. Friend. He is a fantastic advocate for the Acorn project, of which we are hugely supportive. Track 1 projects were agreed in last year’s Budget—a fiscal…18 Mar 2025HANSARDCarbon Capture and StorageI do not agree with the right hon. Gentleman, for whom I have great respect. The situation that we inherited from the last Government meant that we had to consider matters such as…18 Mar 2025