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Energy Bill

I consider that a thoroughly miserable intervention from a member of a party that has absolutely diddly-squat to say about the United Kingdom's energy requirements. We will not take any lectures from the hon. Gentleman and his hon. Friends about how we meet the UK's energy requirements, given the stance that he has taken. We are not interested in that kind of niggardly comment. The hon. Gentleman has a vested interest in talking down the United Kingdom. What we must recognise is that the UK is one of the world's leading countries in the development of carbon capture and storage technology, although we would not have understood that from listening to the hon. Gentleman's whingeing and sarcastic remarks.