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HANSARDShale Gas ProductionMy hon. Friend, who also takes a keen interest in energy matters, and particularly renewables, makes a really strong point about the need to maintain local support and local…15 Mar 2022HANSARDShale Gas ProductionThe hon. Member calls on us to double or treble renewables. That is not good enough. We are going for the quadrupling—the quadrupling—of our offshore wind capacity in this decade.…15 Mar 2022HANSARDShale Gas ProductionMy hon. Friend has represented Blackpool incredibly ably for the past 12 years and knows his community well. He makes, again, a strong point about the importance of community…15 Mar 2022HANSARDShale Gas ProductionI strongly commend my hon. Friend for his support for Government policy on energy, and particularly nuclear. He mentioned seismic limits; I was not the Energy Minister at the…15 Mar 2022HANSARDShale Gas ProductionWe do invest in biofuels. My hon. Friend had a very good and productive visit, and I thank everybody in York who received him. We do invest, and we make sure that this is part of…15 Mar 2022HANSARDShale Gas ProductionI have laid out clearly that our policy on fracking is unchanged. The hon. Member illustrates well the need to keep community support. When it comes to renewables, this…15 Mar 2022HANSARDShale Gas ProductionI thank my hon. Friend for his question and for his continued interest. I am always happy to meet with his group to discuss these issues. He is absolutely right: domestic supply…15 Mar 2022HANSARDShale Gas ProductionWe have an established process in place for large solar farms and I am not changing policy on that. Solar offers a great addition to our armoury of renewables and it has been a…15 Mar 2022HANSARDShale Gas ProductionThe hon. Member raises a very good point and a strong point. In terms of what defines something as being cheaper, there are different ways to cut that. It will depend on what the…15 Mar 2022HANSARDShale Gas ProductionI thank the hon. Gentleman for that response. He is right in the first part of what he says: fracking is unlikely to change gas prices—or UK fracking is unlikely to do so. It is…15 Mar 2022HANSARDShale Gas ProductionI thank my hon. Friend for his support for renewables, nuclear and net zero, all three of which belong together, right at the centre of Government policy. He said that there was a…15 Mar 2022HANSARDShale Gas ProductionMy hon. Friend illustrates well the point about the importance of keeping local community support if this were to happen. As stated in our manifesto, this was based on what local…15 Mar 2022HANSARDShale Gas ProductionI agree absolutely with my right hon. Friend on both the importance of hydrogen and on the importance of being pragmatic. He and I were both elected on a 2019 Conservative party…15 Mar 2022HANSARDShale Gas ProductionI thank my hon. Friend for that incredibly important question. I agree with him: in principle, I am not against shale gas either. He also raised the important question about banks…15 Mar 2022HANSARDShale Gas ProductionI am delighted to see the right hon. Gentleman at the Dispatch Box. He says he is confused, but I have been absolutely clear that Government policy is unchanged from the 2019…15 Mar 2022HANSARDShale Gas ProductionI thank my hon. Friend for his engagement, and I know he has a long-standing interest in energy on a number of fronts. I commend him for his continuing interest. Nothing has…15 Mar 2022HANSARDShale Gas ProductionThere were a few questions there. In respect of the data on emissions, it is impossible to judge what UK fracking emissions would look like because data has not been produced on…15 Mar 2022HANSARDShale Gas ProductionWe have just announced a dedicated pot for tidal energy in the CfD round. In terms of providing certainty, may I suggest to the hon. Gentleman that he goes back to the 2019…15 Mar 2022HANSARDShale Gas ProductionI think the hon. Gentleman is inviting me to go back down memory lane to 2010. I will tell him this: thanks to the actions of this Government, the number of homes that are energy…15 Mar 2022HANSARDShale Gas ProductionI think I am meeting my hon. Friend’s APPG either this week or next, and I am looking forward to that. He makes some strong points. Net zero is not part of the problem; it is part…15 Mar 2022