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HANSARDEnergy Bill [Lords]I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. For much of the past 50 years since the oil shock and energy crisis in the 1970s, Britain has enjoyed abundant and reliable…09 May 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [Lords]To answer my right hon. Friend directly, I do not have concerns about the provisions, but I hear his concerns, and I will ask my hon. Friend the Member for West Aberdeenshire and…09 May 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [Lords]Again, I will just make a bit of progress. I am concerned that others want to speak in the debate. Unlike wind power, nuclear energy is not dependent on the weather, so by ramping…09 May 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [Lords]If my right hon. Friend will give me a moment, I will make a little progress first, and he can be sure that I will give way shortly. We will replace those oil and gas imports with…09 May 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [Lords]Conservative Members believe in getting on and doing things, which is how we have ended up going from nearly 40% of our electricity coming from coal just 10 or 11 years ago to the…09 May 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [Lords]My right hon. Friend will know that the world’s very first civil nuclear reactor was Calder Hall in Cumbria, and we led the world, but, as he said, we switched off or stopped…09 May 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [Lords]My right hon. Friend makes an excellent comment, as ever, on interconnectors, but I would point out that with the growing number of interconnectors, particularly electricity…09 May 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [Lords]The hon. Lady is absolutely right about skills, and the skills gap is very important. I recently had a summit with our French counterparts that was specific to skills in the…09 May 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe right hon. Lady is absolutely right about the potential of the Humber cluster. I want to put that on the record, as well as the fact that track 1 and track 2 announcements…18 Apr 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsWe have worked very hard on making sure that homes are insulated. We have just announced another £1 billion for the Great British insulation campaign, which makes £12.5 billion…18 Apr 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsThat is a brilliant question. What happened during all those years when the Labour party was against civil nuclear power? This Government are moving ahead, and we have set up…18 Apr 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy hon. Friend is right about the possibilities for CCUS. The £20 billion fund was competitive, and others, including HyNet on the east coast, won. When it comes to the Humber…18 Apr 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsJust to correct the record, Ofgem is in charge. The measures it put out today, with industry agreement, will help to protect people. When a person’s payments are in deficit, they…18 Apr 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsIt is an Ofgem announcement today, which I welcome because I asked Ofgem to go away and come to a voluntary agreement. It is actual action that makes a difference. What the right…18 Apr 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsI think the House recognises that we have moved very fast on prepayment meters— [Interruption.] The same rules were in place when Labour was in power for 13 years. We are the…18 Apr 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsThis decoupling is a particularly complex matter, but we are absolutely into the detail of it. As my hon. Friend knows, the connection between electricity and gas prices is to do…18 Apr 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsSince we last met, the Department has been active in, for instance, publishing the “Powering up Britain” document. In the last week, I have been in South Korea and Japan, where we…18 Apr 2023HANSARDEnergy Price Guarantee ExtensionSometimes, we speak in this House as if we have not actually greened up any of our Victorian housing stock. In fact, back in 2010, only about 14% of houses in this country had A…18 Apr 2023HANSARDEnergy Price Guarantee ExtensionMy right hon. Friend is absolutely right. She mentions a third; in fact, we have been paying around a half of the typical household energy bill this winter, at huge cost.…18 Apr 2023HANSARDEnergy Price Guarantee ExtensionJust to correct the record, it comes to an end in April 2024, so that guarantee remains in place. Wholesale prices in the meantime, fortunately, have been falling—I noticed that…18 Apr 2023