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Energy Security and Net Zero

Ed Miliband made a speech in the House of Commons

I thank the right hon. Lady for her kind words about my mum. Unfortunately, I cannot comment on the progress of planning applications, as she will know, but I will definitely pass on her comments...

Topical Questions

Energy Security and Net Zero

Ed Miliband made a speech in the House of Commons

The right hon. Gentleman and I go back a long way, so I thought I would answer this one. It is important to look at the whole context of carbon emissions in projects, but if he shares our desire...

Topical Questions

Energy Security and Net Zero

Ed Miliband made a speech in the House of Commons

I am incredibly excited about this project between X-energy and Centrica—I have met both to talk about it. It is part of this Government overseeing the biggest nuclear building programme in...

Topical Questions

Energy Security and Net Zero

Ed Miliband made a speech in the House of Commons

No matter how many times I tell the hon. Gentleman, he does not seem to get it: we are price takers, not price makers. Even the Conservatives, who want to drill every last drop, do not claim that...

Topical Questions

Energy Security and Net Zero

Ed Miliband made a speech in the House of Commons

My hon. Friend raises an important point. The strategic spatial energy plan, which will be coming out later this year, is designed precisely to ensure the kind of co-ordination that she is after....

Topical Questions

Energy Security and Net Zero

Ed Miliband made a speech in the House of Commons

My hon. Friend makes a really important point. If I might actually praise the previous Government, some of what they did on renewables has helped to reduce wholesale costs. The problem is that...

Topical Questions

Energy Security and Net Zero

Ed Miliband made a speech in the House of Commons

Tony Blair has lots of interesting views. I am actually old enough to remember when Tony Blair was a great advocate of climate leadership in this country. Fundamentally, this Government and I...

Topical Questions

Energy Security and Net Zero

Ed Miliband made a speech in the House of Commons

I am afraid that the shadow Secretary of State is indulging in the worst sort of scaremongering to justify her anti-clean-energy agenda. It is incredibly sad what has happened to her. She used to...

Topical Questions

Energy Security and Net Zero

Ed Miliband made a speech in the House of Commons

First, I thank the shadow Secretary of State for her kind words about my mum. If you will allow me to say so, Mr Speaker, I feel incredibly sad to have lost her, but very lucky to have had 56...

Topical Questions

Energy Security and Net Zero

Ed Miliband made a speech in the House of Commons

We take this issue incredibly seriously, and we are talking to the Competition and Markets Authority to make sure that the pricing is fair. We continue to monitor this, and to look at what...

Topical Questions

Energy Security and Net Zero

Ed Miliband made a speech in the House of Commons

Today we have set out our proposal for the seventh carbon budget, as new research from CBI Economics shows that over a million workers are now supported by the UK’s net zero economy. This...

Clean Power

Energy Security and Net Zero

Ed Miliband made a speech in the House of Commons

For reasons that the right hon. Gentleman will understand, I am not going to comment on individual planning decisions, because they have to go through the proper process, but I say to him that...

Clean Power

Energy Security and Net Zero

Ed Miliband made a speech in the House of Commons

The hon. Gentleman raises an important point. I know that the Energy Minister has met him and the National Fire Chiefs Council to discuss this issue. We take the safety of battery technology...

Clean Power

Energy Security and Net Zero

Ed Miliband made a speech in the House of Commons

My hon. Friend is absolutely right, and I was pleased to sign that contract with Rolls-Royce in the past few weeks. We are world leaders in small modular reactors and this is a massive...

Clean Power

Energy Security and Net Zero

Ed Miliband made a speech in the House of Commons

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. The central fact that we cannot get away from is that we are price takers not price makers when it comes to oil and gas, and that is the fundamental...

Clean Power

Energy Security and Net Zero

Ed Miliband made a speech in the House of Commons

The two renewables auctions under this Government have secured power for the equivalent of 23 million homes, and we are embarked on the biggest nuclear building programme for 50 years. The war in...

Setting the Seventh Carbon Budget

Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Written Ministerial Statements

Today, I am laying before the House the draft Carbon Budget 7 Order which sets the seventh carbon budget for the period 2038 to 2042 at 535 MtCO2e (equivalent to a ~87% emissions reduction from...

Energy Bills

Energy Security and Net Zero

Ed Miliband made a speech in the House of Commons

My hon. Friend makes a very important point, and does so in her articulate way. The big choice that we in this House face is this: is the way out of a fossil fuel crisis to double down on fossil...

Energy Bills

Energy Security and Net Zero

Ed Miliband made a speech in the House of Commons

The price cap increase announced last week as a result of the war in Iran was deeply concerning news for families in my hon. Friend’s constituency. Tackling the cost of living crisis is the...

Energy Security

Commons debates

No. I have set out the approach to energy security that underpins this Gracious Speech. Above all, we will learn the lessons of the fossil fuel crises of our age. We will build our energy...