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HANSARDMarine Renewables IndustryThat is an incredibly important point. I told the hon. Gentleman the last time we spoke on this topic that I am going to Northern Ireland soon for the next inter-ministerial…16 Jan 2025HANSARDMarine Renewables IndustryI won’t. Hopefully, it was not the upcoming speeches from me and the shadow Minister that drove her from Chamber. In any event, it is a delight to be here. I thank the right hon.…16 Jan 2025HANSARDMarine Renewables IndustryI am grateful for the shadow Minister’s raising that point, because that is an important piece of work that we have been moving forward. With the Scottish Government, we launched…16 Jan 2025HANSARDMarine Renewables IndustryThe right hon. Gentleman is determined to move me more quickly through my speech; I promise that I will come on to the taskforce. He is right that the more visibility we have of…16 Jan 2025HANSARDGas Storage LevelsThat is the kind of extremist scaremongering that we have come to expect from the shadow Secretary of State on Twitter, but we are now hearing it in the House. It is thoroughly…13 Jan 2025HANSARDGas Storage LevelsCharacteristically, the hon. Gentleman raises an important point, and he has raised similar points with me before. It is important that the most vulnerable on the priority…13 Jan 2025HANSARDGas Storage LevelsThat is a really interesting question that I asked myself when I came into this role. Logically, we might assume so, but we do not empty the gas storage and then wait to refill…13 Jan 2025HANSARDGas Storage LevelsThat is a really important point. My hon. Friend the Minister for Energy Consumers is leading a review of some of this work, and will have more to say about it soon. We need a…13 Jan 2025HANSARDGas Storage LevelsThat is a very good question. I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving me a second chance to reiterate that we inherited a whole series of plans that were not delivered. We have…13 Jan 2025HANSARDGas Storage LevelsLet me say two things to the right hon. Gentleman. First, our approach to China is that we will co-operate when it is in our interest to do so, and will challenge when necessary.…13 Jan 2025HANSARDGas Storage LevelsLet me repeat what I said a moment ago: even if we were to take much more gas from our continental shelf, it would still be traded on the international market. The reason why the…13 Jan 2025HANSARDGas Storage LevelsThe hon. Lady makes a really important point about energy storage in its various forms. Battery storage technology is moving forward extraordinarily quickly, and the short…13 Jan 2025HANSARDGas Storage LevelsI take issue with two of those points. First, in the past decade, 100,000 jobs have already been lost from the oil and gas industry, and that happened under a Government whom the…13 Jan 2025HANSARDGas Storage LevelsThese are commercial decisions for Centrica, although if it brings those decisions to us, we will of course look at them. Let me reiterate that the UK has a robust set of storage…13 Jan 2025HANSARDGas Storage LevelsI can give that assurance. Indeed, every month I have been in this job, I have been in Aberdeen, meeting oil and gas companies to discuss the issues. We are not going to agree on…13 Jan 2025HANSARDGas Storage LevelsMy hon. Friend is right that as well as building an energy system that will deliver generation capacity for the future, we need to work as fast as possible to reduce demand. Part…13 Jan 2025HANSARDGas Storage LevelsI thank the hon. Gentleman for his characteristic question. On the first point, let me just say that it was not I who said anything about what the margins were. I quoted the…13 Jan 2025HANSARDGas Storage LevelsMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. It is worth saying that electricity margin notices are not unexpected, particularly at this time of year. They mean that there is enough…13 Jan 2025HANSARDGas Storage LevelsThe hon. Lady raises the potential of hydrogen in our energy mix. Of course, one of the real strengths of the gas network is that it can be changed into other things in the…13 Jan 2025HANSARDGas Storage LevelsConservative Members ask, “When?” —they had 14 years in power, and in 14 years did not build a single new nuclear project. The former Minister for nuclear, the hon. Member for…13 Jan 2025