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HANSARDGlobal Gas PricesThat allegation is rather unfair. We are engaging continuously with the Treasury on these matters. We have already put in place £2 billion of funds to help with the cost of…16 Nov 2021HANSARD Nuclear Power FundingIt has been an excellent debate. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Ynys Môn (Virginia Crosbie) on securing this timely and important debate. Having met her as recently…09 Nov 2021HANSARDDraft Green Gas Support Scheme Regulations 2021First, I thank the hon. Member for Southampton, Test, speaking on behalf of the official Opposition, for his support for the measures before us today. That is very welcome. The…03 Nov 2021HANSARD Nuclear Energy (Financing) BillNo, I am going to make some progress. I have already given way to the hon. Gentleman. The Bill could help to get new projects off the ground throughout Great Britain, including,…03 Nov 2021HANSARD Nuclear Energy (Financing) BillI, too, do not often agree with Tony Blair, but it was good to see his conversion in the end, albeit that it took him 10 years. I have always been a passionate supporter of…03 Nov 2021HANSARD Nuclear Energy (Financing) BillI will make more progress. I have taken a lot of interventions. The legislation will also make technical changes to the regime of funded decommissioning programmes, removing…03 Nov 2021HANSARD Nuclear Energy (Financing) BillThe right hon. Gentleman said he was first elected in 2001, but my guess is that he was a supporter of the 1997 manifesto. What says supports what the Government have been doing…03 Nov 2021HANSARD Nuclear Energy (Financing) BillLet me finish responding to the first intervention first. I was reading the 1997 Labour manifesto the other day. We remember those days when they came in as “new Labour”, and…03 Nov 2021HANSARD Nuclear Energy (Financing) BillI think the right hon. Gentleman is a supporter of the Bill and the approach being taken by the Government, because exactly this new financing model will allow us a greater…03 Nov 2021HANSARD Nuclear Energy (Financing) BillI am going to make some more progress. This legislation will facilitate financing of additional nuclear capacity through implementing a regulated asset base model and additional…03 Nov 2021HANSARD Nuclear Energy (Financing) BillI am going to make more progress. But the lack of alternative funding models has led to the cancellation of recent potential projects, such as Hitachi’s project at Wylfa Newydd in…03 Nov 2021HANSARD Nuclear Energy (Financing) BillI will make a bit more progress. However, it is clear that we need a new funding model to support the financing of large-scale and advanced nuclear technologies. Under the…03 Nov 2021HANSARD Nuclear Energy (Financing) BillI will make a bit more progress. The Chancellor’s spending review backs this commitment by providing £1.7 billion to enable the investment decision, alongside a new £120 million…03 Nov 2021HANSARD Nuclear Energy (Financing) BillNo, actually. In fact, the ability to add levies or extra payments on to bills is already in place for multiple technologies. It is not there for nuclear alone. The broad concept…03 Nov 2021HANSARD Nuclear Energy (Financing) BillMy hon. Friend makes a good case for supporting this Bill, which will allow the financing options to expand our nuclear power base. I appreciate his support for Hinkley Point, as…03 Nov 2021HANSARD Nuclear Energy (Financing) BillI have good news for my right hon. Friend, which is that the regulated asset base model that we are introducing here can be used for further nuclear power plants, including small…03 Nov 2021HANSARD Nuclear Energy (Financing) BillThe hon. Gentleman is right, and we are looking at that technology, but I stress what I just said about deployment at scale. We need something that can be deployed at scale to…03 Nov 2021HANSARD Nuclear Energy (Financing) BillOf course I will give way. Perhaps the hon. Gentleman could explain why the SNP is so resolutely opposed to continuing the strong nuclear tradition in Scotland.03 Nov 2021HANSARD Nuclear Energy (Financing) BillI beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. I want to start by apologising the House for the fact that I will be unable to stay for all of the debate as I am taking…03 Nov 2021HANSARDDraft Green Gas Support Scheme Regulations 2021I beg to move, That the Committee has considered the draft Green Gas Support Scheme Regulations 2021. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Robertson. Since the…03 Nov 2021