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HANSARDEnergy UpdateI thank my hon. Friend for that contribution. Schools are certainly at the forefront of our thinking for the coming winter. She is right that we need to make sure that schools are…05 Sept 2022HANSARDEnergy UpdateI thank the right hon. Member for that list of important questions. He will know that the new taskforce has already started meeting to extend the energy bill support scheme, or…05 Sept 2022HANSARDEnergy UpdateI thank the hon. Gentleman for his engagement, as ever. Let me try to deal with each of his points in turn. First, on the Russian decision to cut off—or, as they put it,…05 Sept 2022HANSARDEnergy UpdateThe Government have provided enormous levels of support for exactly those kinds of businesses. The hospitality sector was a strong recipient of Government support during the…05 Sept 2022HANSARDEnergy UpdateThe hon. Gentleman is tempting me to go down the road of Her Majesty’s Treasury announcements on tax and other matters, which I am afraid I will have to resist doing. I think he…05 Sept 2022HANSARDEnergy UpdateI hear the hon. Gentleman loud and clear. Northern Ireland is very much at the forefront of our discussions and our considerations. As I said in answer to an earlier question, the…05 Sept 2022HANSARDEnergy UpdatePublic services have always been well supported by this Government throughout the 12 years that we have been in power. When it comes to future taxation, that is, of course, a…05 Sept 2022HANSARDEnergy UpdateLook, that is not what the Prime Minister said; he did not say that the answer to the energy crisis was to buy a new kettle. He used the new kettle to provide an analogy as to how…05 Sept 2022HANSARDEnergy UpdateI thank my hon. Friend for that question. He is truly a champion of businesses in his constituency and across the country; I know the important work he does on the Select…05 Sept 2022HANSARDEnergy UpdateOn energy-efficiency, the Government have extensive programmes in place, which I outlined in the statement. We have £6.6 billion going in over the course of this Parliament. It is…05 Sept 2022HANSARDEnergy UpdateI thank my hon. Friend, an extremely well-regarded former Sports Minister, for her commitment to the sector. She is right to say that pubs, the hospitality sector in general,…05 Sept 2022HANSARDEnergy UpdateMy hon. Friend, as ever, makes a telling contribution on Blackpool’s behalf that I am sure the Government will study closely. We are also studying the British Geological Survey…05 Sept 2022HANSARDEnergy UpdateI am not quite sure about Labour’s position. On the one hand, it says that we copied its windfall tax proposal, but it also says that what we have done is somehow inadequate. The…05 Sept 2022HANSARDEnergy UpdateMy hon. Friend is always a strong voice for Redcar and Teesside. I think that every single question he has ever asked me has included hydrogen somewhere. He is auditioning, I…05 Sept 2022HANSARDEnergy UpdateI had a helpful and productive day in August, partly spent in my hon. Friend’s constituency, and he and I ran a session for industrial energy users with Andy Street, the brilliant…05 Sept 2022HANSARDEnergy UpdateMy hon. Friend invites me to go down a road of policy speculation. What I will say is that many markets and many countries are looking at this specific issue. There are various…05 Sept 2022HANSARDEnergy UpdateAs ever, the hon. Lady raises an important and telling point. It is worth reminding ourselves, as I said earlier, that businesses tend to have long-term contracts for their energy…05 Sept 2022HANSARDEnergy UpdateThe closure was a commercial decision, made by Centrica, not a decision made by the Government.05 Sept 2022HANSARD Net Zero Strategy: High Court RulingTo put this in context, what the hon. Lady describes as a 5% shortfall is not, if I read the judgment correctly, a doubt that the Government can reach the target; it is simply a…21 Jul 2022HANSARD Net Zero Strategy: High Court RulingI always welcome questions from Northern Ireland. In my previous job at the Department for International Trade, I enjoyed greatly my interactions with the Ulster Farmers Union,…21 Jul 2022