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HANSARD UK Energy CostsI will of course take the former Prime Minister’s intervention.08 Sept 2022HANSARD UK Energy CostsI am going to make some progress, because other speakers need to get in. New wind and solar power are now nine times cheaper—nine times cheaper! We need a clean energy sprint,…08 Sept 2022HANSARD UK Energy CostsI will make my argument and then I will give way. It is about a failure to prepare, a failure to increase our energy independence and a failure to rapidly decrease our reliance on…08 Sept 2022HANSARD UK Energy CostsI am grateful for that intervention and I will deal with it in full, because it is a very important point. Nuclear is vital to our future, and a new generation of power plants…08 Sept 2022HANSARD UK Energy CostsWhat was the Conservative party’s position on nuclear when David Cameron was asked the question in 2006? He did not have a position on it. I think the right hon. Gentleman is…08 Sept 2022HANSARD UK Energy CostsI thank the Prime Minister for advance sight of her opening speech. We are in the middle of a national emergency. People are really scared, families do not know if they can warm…08 Sept 2022HANSARD UK Energy CostsI will give way in just a moment. The head of BP has called this crisis “a cash machine” for his company. Households are on the other end of that cash machine—their bills are…08 Sept 2022HANSARD UK Energy CostsI will just make some progress and then I will give way. This support does not come cheap. The real question before the House today—the real question the Government face; the…08 Sept 2022HANSARD UK Energy CostsWe are talking about what happens this winter and next. If the hon. Gentleman does not understand— [Interruption.] I will tell him something. Every pound the Prime Minister’s…08 Sept 2022HANSARD UK Energy CostsThis is the basic political divide. The Government want to protect the excess profits of the oil and gas and energy groups; we want to protect working people.08 Sept 2022HANSARD UK Energy CostsI am grateful for that intervention. It comes down to this basic point. All hon. Members recognise that profits are needed for investment in all businesses, but in this case these…08 Sept 2022HANSARD UK Energy CostsI will make some progress: I have taken a lot of interventions. Let me turn to home insulation, which reduces energy consumption like nothing else. We have the draughtiest homes…08 Sept 2022HANSARD UK Energy CostsI take it from that intervention that the hon. and learned Gentleman does not quarrel with me that the ban on onshore wind since 2015 has been a policy disaster, along with the…08 Sept 2022HANSARD UK Energy CostsI would be absolutely amazed if Government Members have not picked that up. Ask voters whether they think it is fair that they pick up the bill, rather than those companies that…08 Sept 2022HANSARDEngagementsIt is extraordinary that the Prime Minister is not only refusing to extend the windfall tax but choosing to hand the water companies who are polluting our beaches a tax cut. She…07 Sept 2022HANSARDEngagementsI look forward to tomorrow’s statement, but the money has got to come from somewhere. The Prime Minister knows that every single pound in excess profits that she chooses not to…07 Sept 2022HANSARDEngagementsSo, Mr Speaker, the right hon. Lady’s first act as Prime Minister is to borrow more than is needed because she will not touch excess oil and gas profits. On that topic, how much…07 Sept 2022HANSARDEngagementsThe Prime Minister claims to be breaking orthodoxy, but the reality is that she is reheating George Osborne’s failed corporation tax plans, protecting oil and gas profits, and…07 Sept 2022HANSARDEngagementsI thank the Prime Minister for her answer. I ask because Treasury estimates are that the energy producers will make £170 billion in excess profits over the next two years. The…07 Sept 2022HANSARDEngagementsThank you, Mr Speaker. May I congratulate the Prime Minister on her appointment? When she said in her leadership campaign that she was against windfall taxes, did she mean it?07 Sept 2022