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HANSARD Powering Up BritainThe hon. Gentleman talked about getting the tone right; perhaps I responded in the appropriate tone to the way that the right hon. Member for Doncaster North (Edward Miliband)…30 Mar 2023HANSARD Powering Up BritainTo decarbonise industry, we will need CCS and hydrogen. We are socialising the funding requirements across the piece to ensure that we deliver what is necessary to meet our carbon…30 Mar 2023HANSARD Powering Up BritainWe have not cut our funding commitments; we have moved to a one-year allocation. The budgets are set based on our assessment of projects and where they are in the planning and…30 Mar 2023HANSARD Powering Up BritainI am afraid the hon. Lady may want to correct the record because she misled the House. The courts did not say our policies were insufficient; they said they wished to have more…30 Mar 2023HANSARD Powering Up BritainThe current nuclear policy statement identified Bradwell as a site for nuclear electricity, as my right hon. Friend rightly says, until the end of 2025. That statement continues…30 Mar 2023HANSARD Powering Up BritainI have set out our position on onshore wind. The great thing about the CfD system we have set up is that it has helped to reveal costs. Ground-mounted solar might actually prove…30 Mar 2023HANSARD Powering Up BritainNo policy decision has been made in this area. We have consulted and gone out and found ideas about the best way of doing this. My right hon. Friend is right to identify that any…30 Mar 2023HANSARD Powering Up BritainTalking of making policy on the hoof, my announcement today that the Department would take over the entirety of the planning system would cause something of a Whitehall ruckus. At…30 Mar 2023HANSARD Powering Up BritainWe would be in a very different and much better situation if, instead of inheriting such a tiny—derisory—number of properly insulated homes when we came into power, we had had the…30 Mar 2023HANSARD Powering Up BritainMy hon. Friend will understand that I cannot make policy commitments to Wylfa on the hoof. What I can tell her is that it has already been assessed as one of the best nuclear…30 Mar 2023HANSARD Powering Up BritainWe are accelerating renewables as quickly as we possibly can. As I say, we have transformed the dire situation we inherited and we are moving as fast as we can on that, but we are…30 Mar 2023HANSARD Powering Up BritainI thank my right hon. Friend who, like my hon. Friend the Member for Ynys Môn (Virginia Crosbie), is relentless in promoting and pursuing these interests. He can see that moving…30 Mar 2023HANSARD Powering Up BritainMy right hon. Friend is, of course, absolutely right. The hon. Member for Leeds East (Richard Burgon) talked about growing our oil and gas. We are net importers of oil and gas,…30 Mar 2023HANSARD Powering Up BritainI thank the right hon. Gentleman for his question. Perhaps we can follow up offline on that. As appropriate, I would certainly be happy to engage with my colleagues in the MOD. As…30 Mar 2023HANSARD Powering Up BritainMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. If there was one priority above all else in the Department, it would be ensuring that we get the grid sorted and the infrastructure in place to…30 Mar 2023HANSARD Powering Up BritainThe hon. Lady is absolutely right to highlight the issue. That is why we have set up the energy efficiency taskforce. We are putting in £6.5 billion in this Parliament, as well as…30 Mar 2023HANSARD Powering Up BritainThe reason for setting up Great British Nuclear is precisely to de-risk, roll the pitch and accelerate technologies. One of the benefits of small modular reactors as opposed to…30 Mar 2023HANSARD Powering Up BritainThe hon. Gentleman is a little unfair. If one of the two selected track 1 projects were to come off track, the reserve would move up—that was the point. It was an indicator of the…30 Mar 2023HANSARD Powering Up BritainMy hon. Friend is a member of a small, elite group of colleagues who are relentlessly focused on ensuring that the energy transition is done in the right way, leading to jobs and…30 Mar 2023HANSARD Powering Up BritainSo can I take it that the hon. Lady’s party is opposed? It failed to support the regulated asset base regulations in Committee to allow new nuclear to go ahead, despite its…30 Mar 2023