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HANSARDGrid InfrastructureMy hon. Friend asks an incredibly important question. First, I would like to thank all the engineers and customer service staff who worked through the recent Storm Amy to ensure…14 Oct 2025HANSARDGrid InfrastructureI could not have organised that better if I had tried: immediately after I said, “If you are against grid infrastructure, you are against economic growth”, up pops the hon.…14 Oct 2025HANSARDGrid InfrastructureFirst, I will take no lessons from the party that brought Chinese investors right into building our nuclear power station. This Government are delivering a nuclear power station…14 Oct 2025HANSARDOnshore Wind TurbinesThe Government have published an onshore wind strategy to remove barriers to help companies build more onshore wind, with actions across several areas including planning,…14 Oct 2025HANSARDOnshore Wind TurbinesMy hon. Friend is right to recognise the importance of the industry in his constituency. Vestas is a key part of the UK’s wind supply chain. The Isle of Wight is already a…14 Oct 2025HANSARDOnshore Wind TurbinesOn the substance of the hon. Member’s question, we launched the future of energy in the North sea consultation with a detailed set of questions, which we are analysing at the…14 Oct 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am happy to have further conversations with the hon. Gentleman. I know that the refinery is in his constituency and that he cares deeply about it. A process is under way—led by…14 Oct 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy hon. Friend is absolutely right: allocation round 6 delivered a record number of renewables projects, and the jobs and investments that go with them will deliver jobs in…14 Oct 2025HANSARDConvention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage: UK AccessionI am writing to inform the House of the UK’s accession to a further international nuclear third-party liability (NTPL) treaty, the convention on supplementary compensation for…13 Oct 2025HANSARD Significant Energy Infrastructure Projects: Suffolk CoastThank you, Sir John, for recognising that my role is exactly the same and yet somehow changed in title. I am grateful still to be the Energy Minister, because, as I often say in…16 Sept 2025HANSARD Significant Energy Infrastructure Projects: Suffolk CoastMy hon. Friend foresees what I was going to say. I was just about to come on to his earlier intervention, which was really important. He is right about the need for infrastructure…16 Sept 2025HANSARD Significant Energy Infrastructure Projects: Suffolk CoastI am always happy to meet any hon. Member from either side of the House, and I do regularly, but I will certainly meet my hon. Friend to discuss that. For obvious reasons, it is…16 Sept 2025HANSARDGreat British Energy: Strategic PrioritiesGreat British Energy (GBE) is central to this Government’s mission to make the UK a clean energy superpower and will play a pivotal role in accelerating the deployment of clean,…16 Sept 2025HANSARDHydrogen Supply ChainsIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Betts—and to still be here as the Energy Minister. It is the only Government job that I wanted to do, which is perhaps just as…09 Sept 2025HANSARDHydrogen Supply ChainsMy very next point was on the future of the network. It wasn’t, actually, but I will come to it now, because the hon. Gentleman made a very good point, which I meant to come back…09 Sept 2025HANSARDHydrogen Supply ChainsI will not, because I am just about to conclude. We will work with workers and trade unions to turn this vision into reality and ensure that every part of the UK benefits from the…09 Sept 2025HANSARDHydrogen Supply ChainsA key part of my conclusion was the useful challenge that there always is from the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon) about ensuring that we represent all parts of the…09 Sept 2025HANSARDSizewell C Funded Decommissioning Programme: Contingent LiabilityI am pleased to have laid a departmental minute describing the contingent liabilities arising from the signing of the funded decommissioning programme and Government support…01 Sept 2025HANSARDPrax Lindsey Oil RefineryMy hon. Friend is right. Separate from all the wider issues facing the refinery sector and the oil and gas sector generally, it is right we recognise that this week there are…22 Jul 2025HANSARDPrax Lindsey Oil RefineryI will avoid the wider political points in a week when workers are finding out about job losses, because that is obviously devastating for them. I will just say that the…22 Jul 2025