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HANSARD Energy Grid ResilienceLet me repeat the point that I made to the shadow Minister. It is absolutely right to point out the widespread cascading impacts of power failure and just the sheer amount of our…30 Apr 2025HANSARD Energy Grid ResilienceStorage will be crucial in the clean-power system that we are building. Batteries will play a critical role in making sure that we can store the clean, cheap energy that we are…30 Apr 2025HANSARD Energy Grid ResilienceI congratulated the hon. Lady yesterday on her remarkable marathon; I think she ran it two hours faster than I did, which leaves considerable room for improvement on my part, but…30 Apr 2025HANSARD Energy Grid ResilienceI am afraid that I do not accept anything that the right hon. Gentleman has just said. He said in his first breath that it was right to wait for the outcomes of an investigation…30 Apr 2025HANSARD Energy Grid ResilienceWhile Great Britain’s energy network is incredibly resilient and robust, there are outages for a whole range of reasons. The system continues to function, as it did entirely,…30 Apr 2025HANSARD Energy Grid ResilienceMy hon. Friend always makes his point in his particular style—perhaps a more political style than I will use from this Dispatch Box, but Inspector Clouseau is a new one that I…30 Apr 2025HANSARD Energy Grid ResilienceIndeed. I apologise and will prioritise it for my weekend reading. What I did see is that the Tony Blair Institute outlined very clearly its support for clean power as an…30 Apr 2025HANSARD Energy Grid ResilienceMy hon. Friend raises an important point. The issue of cyber-security across our critical national infrastructure becomes more and more important day by day. As our energy system…30 Apr 2025HANSARD Energy Grid ResilienceThe right hon. Member for Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale (David Mundell) made a point yesterday about black start, and it is one that the Secretary of State will take…30 Apr 2025HANSARD Energy Grid ResilienceMy hon. Friend has been a champion of these issues for a long time, and it will not surprise him or the House to hear that I entirely agree with him; clean, cheap and secure is…30 Apr 2025HANSARD Energy Grid ResilienceI am happy to agree with the right hon. Member on his final point. Small modular reactors will play a really important part and are an exciting proposition that the UK can be at…30 Apr 2025HANSARD Energy Grid ResilienceMay I thank the hon. Gentleman, because that is a really important question and one that the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster has been wrestling with? Under all Governments…30 Apr 2025HANSARD Energy Grid ResilienceI thank my hon. Friend for that question and for drawing attention to my appalling time in the marathon. [ Interruption. ] That is kind of the shadow Secretary of State. My hon.…30 Apr 2025HANSARD Energy Grid ResilienceI will not be drawn on an individual commercial arrangement that a project may or may not have. As I have outlined, in any investment case the Government will carry out a number…30 Apr 2025HANSARD Energy Grid ResilienceI thank my hon. Friend for the question. He raises what we are doing to deploy technologies in the clean power system to make it more resilient, and rotating stabilisers in…30 Apr 2025HANSARD Energy Grid ResilienceI say to the right hon. Gentleman: never say never. I am sure he has it in him. I entirely agree with the right hon. Gentleman. In the news we saw the impact on day-to-day life of…30 Apr 2025HANSARD Energy Grid ResilienceThe hon. Gentleman brings his customary sunny demeanour to his questions and I am grateful for that on this of all days. First, I am giving this statement because a number of hon.…30 Apr 2025HANSARD Energy Grid ResilienceMadam Deputy Speaker, I think you need to make a ruling on drawing marathon-related puns in the House to an end, but the subject is a really important one. Of course, that is why…30 Apr 2025HANSARD Energy Grid ResilienceI thank the hon. Lady for that important question. I was here after Storm Éowyn, when we discussed that a number of people who no longer had a copper wire line were not able to…30 Apr 2025HANSARD Energy Grid ResilienceI will take that interesting point on surge protection away and speak to my colleagues in the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. On the wider point around…30 Apr 2025