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Ministerial statement on Monday, 9 November 2009, in the House of Commons, led by Ed Miliband.

Energy National Policy Statements

Statement on the energy national policy statements and proposals on clean coal.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
499 c30-46 
Session
2008-09
Department
Department of Energy and Climate Change
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Ed Miliband | 499 c40 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has an understandable interest in a particular competitor in the competition, and...
Willie Rennie | 499 c39-40 (Link to this contribution) I noticed that the Energy Secretary did not answer the question from the Conservative Front Bencher ...
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Ed Miliband | 499 c39 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend speaks with great authority on this matter. Indeed, I believe that he was shado...
Frank Dobson | 499 c39 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend make sure that the reduction in the time taken up by the planning process ...
Ed Miliband | 499 c40 (Link to this contribution) The Wicks report makes very good reading; I am glad to have the chance to plug it, as my right hon. ...
Malcolm Wicks | 499 c40 (Link to this contribution) I very much welcome the statement, but, given the inevitably long time scales for the development of...
David Heathcoat-Amory | 499 c39 (Link to this contribution) Instead of being a world beater regarding civil nuclear power, we are now a client state because of ...
Ed Miliband | 499 c39 (Link to this contribution) I have to say that the right hon. Gentleman has a funny way of advancing his constituents' interests...
Michael Meacher | 499 c38-9 (Link to this contribution) As French, Finnish and UK regulators have all recently agreed that the current control systems for t...
Ed Miliband | 499 c39 (Link to this contribution) No, it is not. I said earlier that we were benefiting from the fact that other countries are constru...
Lord Lilley | 499 c38 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State said that he foresaw 150 MW of wind power capacity being installed. Can he co...
Ed Miliband | 499 c37-8 (Link to this contribution) Let me pay tribute to my right hon. Friend because he took the very brave decision on nuclear power,...
Joan Walley | 499 c38 (Link to this contribution) What is there in place to ensure that there will be full environmental impact assessments in order t...
Ed Miliband | 499 c38 (Link to this contribution) I think the right hon. Gentleman has got his megawatts and gigawatts a little confused, if I may say...
Lord Beith | 499 c38 (Link to this contribution) May I welcome the Secretary of State's well justified refusal to put Druridge Bay in Northumberland ...
Ed Miliband | 499 c38 (Link to this contribution) I know that my hon. Friend feels strongly about these issues. Local environmental impacts are built ...
Ed Miliband | 499 c38 (Link to this contribution) Again, I know from speaking to the right hon. Gentleman that he feels strongly about these matters. ...
Lord Howard of Lympne | 499 c37 (Link to this contribution) Is the Secretary of State aware that his decision to exclude Dungeness from his list of preferred si...
Ed Miliband | 499 c37 (Link to this contribution) I know from our conversations that the right hon. and learned Gentleman feels strongly about these q...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 499 c37 (Link to this contribution) I warmly congratulate my right hon. Friend on his statement and the plans that he announced for acce...
Speaker | 499 c37 (Link to this contribution) Order. Thirty hon. and right hon. Members are seeking to catch my eye, so brevity is of the essence....
Ed Miliband | 499 c36-7 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend played an important role in Kyoto and his advice has been very helpful in the r...
Lord Prescott | 499 c36 (Link to this contribution) May I congratulate the Secretary of State on his statement? It arises from the planning delay over i...
Ed Miliband | 499 c36 (Link to this contribution) I will try to be brief in reply, Mr. Speaker. Obviously, it pains me to disagree with the hon. Membe...
Speaker | 499 c36 (Link to this contribution) Order. Before the Secretary of State replies, may I gently say to the hon. Member for North Southwar...
Simon Hughes | 499 c34-5 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for his statement, but can he tell us why the press were clearly brie...
Ed Miliband | 499 c34 (Link to this contribution) It is hard to know where to start with the hon. Gentleman, and not for the right reasons. In the cou...
Ed Miliband | 499 c30-2 (Link to this contribution) With permission, I shall make a statement about the energy national policy statements and our propos...
Greg Clark | 499 c32-4 (Link to this contribution) What we have heard softly spoken is a declaration of a national emergency for our energy security. T...
David Drew | 499 c46 (Link to this contribution) Much as I have concerns about the IPC process, I welcome what my right hon. Friend has said about nu...
Ed Miliband | 499 c46 (Link to this contribution) It is tempting on these occasions to load the IPC with a huge number of responsibilities. Part of wh...
Stephen Ladyman | 499 c45 (Link to this contribution) With the single caveat that my right hon. Friend should revisit the decision about Dungeness, I warm...
Ed Miliband | 499 c45-6 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. We need to ensure, both for reasons of national prosperity and, ...
Ed Miliband | 499 c45 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend asks an important question, and there is more information in the documentation we hav...
Ed Miliband | 499 c45 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is a passionate advocate for the new nuclear industry and the role that it can play i...
Martin Horwood | 499 c44 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State claimed that his statement was consistent with the Committee on Climate Chang...
Ed Miliband | 499 c44 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend. He is right to say that nuclear can create big job opportunities in thi...
Ed Miliband | 499 c44 (Link to this contribution) I disagree with the hon. Gentleman. The Committee on Climate Change is very clear that there is a li...
Sally Keeble | 499 c44 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that a lot of people want to know not only that the lights will stay...
Ed Miliband | 499 c44 (Link to this contribution) In a sense, we see from the contributions of hon. Members the jobs impact that new nuclear can have ...
Paul Flynn | 499 c45 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend guarantee that the nuclear industry will not be given an insurance indemni...
Ed Miliband | 499 c45 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises a very important issue. That is why, in the energy Bill, which was in the draf...
Ed Miliband | 499 c45 (Link to this contribution) We have made clear that on the question of public subsidy for nuclear—it was clear in the White Pape...
John Robertson | 499 c45 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend will be aware that during the two-week cold spell in Scotland last year, renewa...
Ed Miliband | 499 c43 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend tempts me towards plan B, and I shall try to resist the temptation. We need to focus ...
Paddy Tipping | 499 c43 (Link to this contribution) Should the Copenhagen summit not produce a robust price of carbon—the Secretary of State's plan A—wi...
Ed Miliband | 499 c43 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a very important point. In drawing up the national policy statements, we are ve...
Paul Truswell | 499 c43 (Link to this contribution) Can my right hon. Friend give an assurance that the NPSs before us today have been fully assessed fo...
Ed Miliband | 499 c43 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman will know, many of these matters are devolved, including specific planning iss...
Roger Williams | 499 c43 (Link to this contribution) What has been the involvement and input of the devolved nations in drawing up the national policy st...
Parmjit Dhanda | 499 c44 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend join me in congratulating employees at British Energy in my constituency? ...
Bob Spink | 499 c43 (Link to this contribution) What specifically will the Government do, however, at Copenhagen on emissions trading to ensure that...
Ed Miliband | 499 c44 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman asks an important question. The most important thing we can do at Copenhagen is t...
Steve Webb | 499 c42 (Link to this contribution) The proposed Oldbury B power station, unlike the existing one next to it in my constituency, would h...
Ed Miliband | 499 c42 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right about the importance of that matter as part of the IPC's work. Th...
Rob Marris | 499 c42 (Link to this contribution) Climate change is accelerating and sea levels are rising. Of the 10 potentially suitable sites for n...
Ed Miliband | 499 c42 (Link to this contribution) The distinction I have tried to draw is between the national need, which is important to establish, ...
Lord Whitehead | 499 c42 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that my right hon. Friend will agree that the investment in and strengthening of the grid ...
Ed Miliband | 499 c42 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend asks a characteristically important question. Let me put it to him this way: flooding...
Christopher Fraser | 499 c42 (Link to this contribution) In South-West Norfolk there is a growing number of wind turbines, without any tangible local benefit...
Ed Miliband | 499 c43 (Link to this contribution) We are always on the look-out for ways to encourage local authorities to support wind turbines. ......
Ian Liddell-Grainger | 499 c41 (Link to this contribution) May I say that Hinkley Point is delighted with the Minister's announcement? One of the integral aspe...
Ed Miliband | 499 c41 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that my hon. Friend's constituents and the independent consultants will have heard his vie...
Ian Cawsey | 499 c40-1 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for his courtesy in letting me know that Owston Ferry in my constituenc...
Ed Miliband | 499 c40 (Link to this contribution) It is worth saying that the IPC will be up and running and fully operational from next spring. Pre-d...
Jacqui Lait | 499 c40 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the introduction of the first national policy statements, but may I press the Secretary of...
Peter Bone | 499 c41 (Link to this contribution) Can the Secretary of State say why the contents of his statement were leaked to the press over the w...
Ed Miliband | 499 c41 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend speaks with great knowledge about these issues. We have set up the office of carbon c...
Speaker | 499 c41 (Link to this contribution) Order. May I appeal to the House for very brief questions and brief answers, so that we get as many ...
Ed Miliband | 499 c41 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman gives me a good opportunity to plug the benefits of the new system. He is right. ...
Geoffrey Robinson | 499 c41 (Link to this contribution) I compliment my right hon. Friend on so clear-sighted and realistic a statement, but is he aware tha...
Lord Watson of Wyre Forest | 499 c45 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend has made a big call today and I commend him. On his proposals for the managemen...
Ed Miliband | 499 c42 (Link to this contribution) It was not leaked to the press, and I take our responsibilities in the House very seriously. It was ...
Mark Hendrick | 499 c44 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my right hon. Friend's commitment to 16 GW of new nuclear energy. He knows, as I do, that ...
Subjects
Coal Carbon capture and storage Environment protection Energy Electricity generation Energy supply Infrastructure Nuclear power Renewable energy Wind power Carbon emissions Renewables obligation National policy statements
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