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HANSARDConsumer Energy DebtWe have moved decisively to support families in Scotland and across the rest of the UK. I am pleased that the price cap has fallen by half since its peak last year, and we are…16 Jan 2024HANSARDConsumer Energy DebtAs I set out in response to the hon. Gentleman’s colleagues, we have acted decisively, offering among the most generous support of any nation in Europe. We can be proud of the…16 Jan 2024HANSARDOnshore Wind Farm CablesThe environmental impact of onshore windfarm cables is assessed through the consenting process. Minimising potential environmental impacts of new infrastructure is a Government…16 Jan 2024HANSARDOnshore Wind Farm CablesI thank my hon. Friend for his question and for persistently raising these issues to make sure that we get the transmission infrastructure that we need, but in a way that has the…16 Jan 2024HANSARDOnshore Wind Farm CablesI thank the hon. Gentleman for his question. As he will be aware, in the last contracts for difference round, a great deal of onshore wind was successfully brought forward and it…16 Jan 2024HANSARDOnshore Wind Farm CablesI thank the hon. Gentleman for his question and his personal commitment to this area, but he knows as well as anyone the parlous performance of the previous Government, which his…16 Jan 2024HANSARD Grangemouth Oil Refinery: Energy SecurityAs the hon. Gentleman will be aware, through contracts for difference and many other policy announcements from the UK Government, we are driving enormous growth in jobs in the…09 Jan 2024HANSARD Grangemouth Oil Refinery: Energy SecurityMay I begin by thanking the hon. Member for East Lothian (Kenny MacAskill) for securing this important debate and colleagues across the Chamber for joining it? I recognise that…09 Jan 2024HANSARD Grangemouth Oil Refinery: Energy SecurityMy hon. Friend is a great champion of those workers in the oil and gas industry. We now have an integrated energy industry. He may have seen the recent research suggesting that…09 Jan 2024HANSARDLong-Duration Electricity Storage: ConsultationToday I am announcing the next steps the Government are taking to create a policy framework to encourage investment in long-duration electricity storage. This delivers on…09 Jan 2024HANSARD Grangemouth Oil Refinery: Energy SecurityThe hon. Lady is absolutely right to champion such opportunities, of which there are so many going forward. That is why, if a decision is made on refining there, I believe that…09 Jan 2024HANSARD COP28May I thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, as well as all the staff of this House and colleagues across the House, for all your hard work this year? I wish everyone a very happy…14 Dec 2023HANSARD COP28On the coalitions of the willing, the world is changing, and the EU has already legislated for a carbon border adjustment mechanism for selected parts of industry, which will put…14 Dec 2023HANSARD COP28Interestingly, my right hon. Friend takes us back to the days before the Climate Change Act 2008 when, if I remember correctly, Friends of the Earth was arguing for annual…14 Dec 2023HANSARD COP28I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his questions. I welcome what he said about the overall COP result and the need to celebrate it and build on it, and the fact that we need to…14 Dec 2023HANSARD COP28I thank the hon. Gentleman for his question, which is a good one. Our nationally determined contribution and emissions promise for 2030 is for a 68% cut from the 1990 basis—far…14 Dec 2023HANSARD COP28I thank the hon. Lady. In her coded way—we all know there is an election coming up—I suppose that is as far as she could go in opposing the opposition of those on Labour’s Front…14 Dec 2023HANSARD COP28I pay tribute to my right hon. Friend for his efforts at COP26 in Glasgow, including the significant measure on phasing down coal. [ Interruption. ] Could the right hon. Member…14 Dec 2023HANSARD COP28My hon. Friend, as always, is well informed and insightful. We were pleased, along with 21 other countries, to join NetZero Nuclear, because nuclear has such an important part to…14 Dec 2023HANSARD COP28I pay tribute to my hon. Friend and her energetic, continual and well-informed—not least by marriage—understanding of the nuclear industry and its importance. I remember being at…14 Dec 2023