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HANSARDBritain’s Industrial FutureIt is a great pleasure to serve in this debate and to have my first outing at the Dispatch Box as the returned Minister for science research, innovation and technology at the…15 Nov 2022HANSARDPublic Ownership of Energy CompaniesI will happily set out the explanation for our position, which I think will deal with that point. If it does not, I am sure that the Climate Minister will want to follow up with…31 Oct 2022HANSARDPublic Ownership of Energy CompaniesI would like to make some progress as I have hardly even got through my first paragraph, but I will give way.31 Oct 2022HANSARDPublic Ownership of Energy CompaniesI will deal with that point as I come on to explain our position on net zero and the extraordinary success that the market has had, with appropriate regulation.31 Oct 2022HANSARDPublic Ownership of Energy CompaniesNo, I have had enough of giving way. All Members are doing is repeating the same points that we have already listened to, and I want to make some progress. I will turn to the…31 Oct 2022HANSARDPublic Ownership of Energy CompaniesThank you, Mrs Murray. We have heard nothing today about the really exciting opportunities in our energy sector: the new renewables, including those in marine, tidal, geothermal,…31 Oct 2022HANSARDPublic Ownership of Energy CompaniesNo, I am going to make some progress. That capacity has happened by harnessing the power of the market. I do not think anyone would suggest we have had an untrammelled free…31 Oct 2022HANSARDPublic Ownership of Energy CompaniesThe hon. Lady makes an important point about the particular circumstances of those people on prepayment meters and those who are most prone to energy poverty and vulnerability.…31 Oct 2022HANSARDPublic Ownership of Energy CompaniesIt is a great pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Murray. May I take this opportunity to say what a pleasure it is to be back on the Front Bench after the turmoil of…31 Oct 2022HANSARDPublic Ownership of Energy CompaniesI refer the hon. Gentleman to the facts as I have set them out. We are attracting billions of pounds of investment into clean energy—into a whole raft of new renewables. I do not…31 Oct 2022HANSARDPublic Ownership of Energy CompaniesI will just finish this list, if I may. I approach this issue with no ideology, either. All parties have had their problems in the past: in the ’60s and ’70s Labour was rather…31 Oct 2022HANSARDPublic Ownership of Energy CompaniesYes, I did, and the record will show it. Those interested in how we might build a modern energy economy will observe that there was very little detail on how nationalisation will…31 Oct 2022HANSARDPublic Ownership of Energy CompaniesIt is. It is also different, as the record will show, from what Opposition Members said. For an hour, I listened to a reheated hash of the same old anti-capitalist, anti-business,…31 Oct 2022HANSARDPublic Ownership of Energy CompaniesI am not totally sure I understand the question. The point is that we live in a modern global economy. I do not think anyone other than political dinosaurs would think we can…31 Oct 2022HANSARDPublic Ownership of Energy CompaniesI did make clear that I am not the Climate Minister, so I am not going to make that commitment on his behalf, but I will make the undertaking that he will follow up that specific…31 Oct 2022HANSARDPublic Ownership of Energy CompaniesNo, I am going to make some progress. Since privatisation, the UK’s energy sector has attracted around £20 billion a year of private capital investment into our energy…31 Oct 2022HANSARDEconomic UpdateI welcome the Chancellor and thank him for bringing calm reassurance to the markets and to this crisis so quickly. Does he agree that economic crises based on political confidence…17 Oct 2022HANSARDStations Outside Cities: RegenerationI am grateful for that answer. No region is more poised to deliver growth for this country than the east, with agritech, cleantech, biotech and every other tech, but we are being…13 Oct 2022HANSARDStations Outside Cities: Regeneration4. Whether her Department is taking steps to increase investment in the regeneration of stations outside cities to (a) improve access for (i) local residents, (ii) commuters and…13 Oct 2022HANSARD Dental Training College: East AngliaAs a former Minister for life science and for science and research, I rise very briefly to highlight the point that my hon. Friend the Member for Broadland (Jerome Mayhew) made…11 Oct 2022