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Annual Energy Statement

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

514 c867-80 

Session

2010-12

Department

Department of Energy and Climate Change

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

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Proceeding contributions

Chris Huhne | 514 c872 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to my hon. Friend for that question. Nobody who has visited his part of the world...

Ed Miliband | 514 c869-70 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for early sight of his statement and the associated documents. There ...

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Chris Huhne | 514 c870-1 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for his response. Let me make it clear that we have set ou...

Speaker | 514 c871 (Link to this contribution) Order. A very large number of right hon. and hon. Members wish to take part in this statement, but t...

Jeremy Lefroy | 514 c871 (Link to this contribution) As my right hon. Friend knows, the energy-intensive industries in my constituency, such as ceramics ...

Chris Huhne | 514 c871 (Link to this contribution) Both the Department and the European Commission have looked closely at those competitiveness issues,...

Malcolm Wicks | 514 c871-2 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the idea of an annual energy statement and, indeed, much of this statement's content, part...

Chris Huhne | 514 c872 (Link to this contribution) I have great respect for the right hon. Gentleman's expertise in this area. We work very much as a t...

Robert Smith | 514 c872 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State will know, from his visit to north-east Scotland so soon after his appointmen...

Chris Huhne | 514 c873 (Link to this contribution) I think that the hon. Gentleman misunderstands the green deal, which is primarily about insulation. ...

Frank Doran | 514 c874 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State commented a lot about the importance of the private sector in his policy, but...

Chris Huhne | 514 c874 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is quite right that it is absolutely essential that any private sector investment...

Laura Sandys | 514 c873-4 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State very much for a clear sense of direction on energy security, which we...

Chris Huhne | 514 c874 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend can rest assured that we have not forgotten about the marine parks proposal; indeed, ...

Tony Lloyd | 514 c873 (Link to this contribution) I very much welcome the Secretary of State's commitment to look at the energy markets, but will he a...

Chris Huhne | 514 c873 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is quite right to point out that competition is an absolutely key part of ensurin...

Sarah Newton | 514 c873 (Link to this contribution) I very much welcome the Government's strong commitment today to renewable heat. In my constituency w...

Chris Huhne | 514 c873 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend should be aware that all those decisions need to be taken in line with the spending r...

Adrian Bailey | 514 c874-5 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Secretary of State's acknowledgement, albeit somewhat grudgingly, of the role of the n...

Chris Huhne | 514 c874 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that question. One of the things that we are looking at in the c...

Duncan Hames | 514 c874 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend assures us that there will be no subsidy to the nuclear industry. Today, BP has...

David Morris | 514 c875 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Secretary of State on his announcement. However, I am concerned that there will b...

Chris Huhne | 514 c876 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his question. There is a clear economic reason for making a dist...

Chris Huhne | 514 c875 (Link to this contribution) I can absolutely and categorically give the hon. Gentleman an assurance that whatever he imagines to...

Chris Huhne | 514 c875 (Link to this contribution) I can confirm to my hon. Friend that below 50 MW the decision is for the local planning authority. H...

Barry Gardiner | 514 c875 (Link to this contribution) Thirty per cent. of the UK's energy supply will be going off stream between 2017 and 2025 as nuclear...

Chris Huhne | 514 c876 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Lady will know, government is a collective business. Large numbers of people were involv...

Chris Huhne | 514 c876 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that question. He is absolutely right; one of the most powerful ...

John Baron | 514 c876 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the statement, but does my right hon. Friend appreciate that 4,000 different tariffs cause...

Chris Huhne | 514 c877 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend will know that the forecasts that we are making for 2020 crucially depend, in terms o...

Andrew George | 514 c877 (Link to this contribution) I warmly congratulate my right hon. Friend on his statement. Further to the question by the hon. Mem...

Chris Huhne | 514 c876 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman clearly was not listening to the part of the statement that dealt with carbon cap...

Ian Lavery | 514 c876 (Link to this contribution) Is the Secretary of State aware that at this moment in time coal produces up to 35%—at times, 50%—of...

Chris Huhne | 514 c877 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman raises an important point that we are very aware of and have been devoting a lot ...

Gareth Thomas | 514 c877 (Link to this contribution) I was grateful to hear the Secretary of State's reconfirmation of the doubling of inspections of off...

Tobias Ellwood | 514 c877-8 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend has made it clear that there is no public money for the mature nuclear energy m...

Baroness Coffey | 514 c878 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my right hon. Friend's statement and invite him to come to Suffolk Coastal or, as I rechri...

Chris Huhne | 514 c878 (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friend says, the technology has been held out as having enormous promise for many years. ...

Phil Woolas | 514 c878 (Link to this contribution) The nuclear industry is worth an estimated £30 billion of investment over the next 10 years in the n...

Clive Betts | 514 c879 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State said a few minutes ago that his Department was kept informed about the decisi...

Chris Huhne | 514 c878-9 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right to raise that issue. We are indeed considering the transmission regime to en...

Peter Bone | 514 c879 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State shows the same enthusiasm for new nuclear power as I do for the European Unio...

Chris Huhne | 514 c879 (Link to this contribution) We were consulted on Sheffield Forgemasters, although the matter relates to the budget of the Depart...

Chris Huhne | 514 c879 (Link to this contribution) I had absolutely no idea that the hon. Gentleman shared to such a degree my enthusiasm for the Europ...

Chris Leslie | 514 c879 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State's statement shows that he has quickly assimilated and merged with the Conserv...

David Mowat | 514 c880 (Link to this contribution) Electricity in the UK—this is a legacy from the past 15 years—costs about 30% more than in France, w...

Chris Huhne | 514 c880 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman knows, the French began their energy commitment to nuclear power in the wake o...

Clive Efford | 514 c880 (Link to this contribution) In his statement, the Secretary of State said that the Government were committed to removing any unn...

Chris Huhne | 514 c880 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman must know that I am a Minister in a coalition Government, who recognised right at...

Kerry McCarthy | 514 c880 (Link to this contribution) I was somewhat disappointed that although the Secretary of State made fleeting reference to marine e...

Lord Whitehead | 514 c872 (Link to this contribution) I note the right hon. Gentleman's reference to the ambition of the green deal that he is going to br...

Robert Walter | 514 c875 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Secretary of State's statement on the low-carbon economy, particularly his commitment ...

Helen Goodman | 514 c876 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State emphasised that the Government are working as a team. Which members of the te...

Chris Huhne | 514 c878 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman really does not get it yet, and I am afraid that he shares that with a lot of his...

Chris Huhne | 514 c880 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady can rest assured that we are considering the Severn barrage feasibility study and will...

Chris Huhne | 514 c867-9 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr Speaker, I wish to make a statement on energy policy. This statement and the dep...

Chris Huhne | 514 c875 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman and I have already had this debate, which is a bit like dancing on the head of a ...

Chris Huhne | 514 c879-80 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is not listening if he thinks that I am saying that the market always knows best....

Subjects

Conservation Climate change Carbon capture and storage Housing Finance Energy Ofgem Electricity Heating Oil Natural gas Nuclear power Meters Prices Microgeneration Offshore industry Renewable energy North Sea oil Green Investment Bank

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