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HANSARD Prepayment Meters: Ofgem DecisionI will write to the hon. Lady with the exact date—I believe it may have been 2020 or so—when 30% of those deemed in fuel poverty were on prepayment meters and 70% were not. It is…06 Feb 2023HANSARD Prepayment Meters: Ofgem DecisionUnder this Government, not only are we seeing the transformation of our system to being greener, but we have seen the contracts for difference, which are of course reducing the…06 Feb 2023HANSARD Prepayment Meters: Ofgem DecisionThe hon. Gentleman may always come at the end of the questions, but his are rarely the weakest ones. He is absolutely right on this. If we need to do more to strengthen the…06 Feb 2023HANSARDDraft Nuclear Regulated Asset Base Model (Revenue Collection) Regulations 2023I beg to move, That the Committee has considered the draft Nuclear Regulated Asset Base Model (Revenue Collection) Regulations 2023. It is a great privilege to speak under your…06 Feb 2023HANSARDDraft Nuclear Regulated Asset Base Model (Revenue Collection) Regulations 2023As the hon. Gentleman will know, Hinkley was done on a different basis, with a strike price that was agreed with EDF Energy, CGN Europe Energy and others. It is completely…06 Feb 2023HANSARDDraft Nuclear Regulated Asset Base Model (Revenue Collection) Regulations 2023I will make a little more progress, if I may. Once the nuclear company accepts the offer and the revenue collection contract is entered into, the draft regulations will establish…06 Feb 2023HANSARDDraft Nuclear Regulated Asset Base Model (Revenue Collection) Regulations 2023I will wait for historic refreshment, if such there is, although I am sure the hon. Gentleman recognises that the RAB model is designed to ensure that, given the capital…06 Feb 2023HANSARDDraft Nuclear Regulated Asset Base Model (Revenue Collection) Regulations 2023Like the hon. Gentleman, when I hear the word holistic it tends to get my nose twitching. To use other language, the point is that this is not the appropriate moment to address…06 Feb 2023HANSARDDraft Nuclear Regulated Asset Base Model (Revenue Collection) Regulations 2023I will give the hon. Gentleman one more opportunity to justify his clearly unreasonable opposition to nuclear, even when it offers a clean, net zero-compliant future and lower…06 Feb 2023HANSARDDraft Nuclear Regulated Asset Base Model (Revenue Collection) Regulations 2023I thank the hon. Gentleman for his question. As I have shared with the Committee, we expect that the cost would be around that level of £1. That should provide reassurance. For…06 Feb 2023HANSARDDraft Nuclear Regulated Asset Base Model (Revenue Collection) Regulations 2023It is highly unlikely.06 Feb 2023HANSARDDraft Nuclear Regulated Asset Base Model (Revenue Collection) Regulations 2023I thank the hon. Members for Southampton, Test and for Kilmarnock and Loudoun for their contributions. It is clear that our electricity system must be resilient and affordable as…06 Feb 2023HANSARD Green Energy Potential: ScotlandPerhaps the right hon. Gentleman is now going to apologise, albeit briefly, to the House.31 Jan 2023HANSARD Green Energy Potential: ScotlandLet me begin by congratulating the right hon. Member for Ross, Skye and Lochaber (Ian Blackford) on securing this Adjournment debate. I agree with him that green energy in…31 Jan 2023HANSARD Green Energy Potential: ScotlandAgain, the right hon. Gentleman said in his speech—this is what is incredible—that the Scottish people had not benefited from the bounty in the North sea. Has he looked at the…31 Jan 2023HANSARD Green Energy Potential: ScotlandWe are leading the world on tidal stream. That is indisputable. It has never been procured anywhere in the world on this scale, and we plan to go forward now with annual CfD…31 Jan 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill Relief Scheme (Non-Standard Cases) Regulations 2023
Energy Bills Support Scheme and Alternative Fuel Payment Pass-through Requirement (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2023I thank the hon. Gentleman for the much more characteristically kind words than those he used the other day. He asked two questions. He asked whether the Government are…30 Jan 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill Relief Scheme (Non-Standard Cases) Regulations 2023
Energy Bills Support Scheme and Alternative Fuel Payment Pass-through Requirement (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2023I thank my hon. Friend for his point, which I am sure has been received deep in the heart of officialdom. That is exactly what the Committee is here for: not only to scrutinise…30 Jan 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill Relief Scheme (Non-Standard Cases) Regulations 2023
Energy Bills Support Scheme and Alternative Fuel Payment Pass-through Requirement (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2023It is about taking the individual circumstances and then applying to those circumstances the principles that we have laid out for this support. That is not as transparent an…30 Jan 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill Relief Scheme (Non-Standard Cases) Regulations 2023
Energy Bills Support Scheme and Alternative Fuel Payment Pass-through Requirement (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2023No such refreshment has come my way. The energy system in Northern Ireland is, of course, devolved, so it is a separate system altogether from that of GB. In this particular…30 Jan 2023