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Electricity Market Reform

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Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

520 c1064-76 

Session

2010-12

Department

Department of Energy and Climate Change

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

Meg Hillier | 520 c1066-7 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for early sight of his statement and for early notice that it would...

Chris Huhne | 520 c1069 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely agree that we require long-term regulatory stability. That is one reason why we have be...

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Sheila Gilmore | 520 c1076 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State will be well aware that the housing with the poorest insulation is in the pri...

Lord Brennan of Canton | 520 c1076 (Link to this contribution) There will be no shortage of either wind or gas while the Secretary of State is in post, that is for...

Lord Watson of Wyre Forest | 520 c1073 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State mentioned volatile oil markets. These reforms will impact on the domestic oil...

Chris Huhne | 520 c1072 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend knows very well that our policy is no subsidy to nuclear. We are not intending to imp...

Daniel Byles | 520 c1069 (Link to this contribution) Does the Secretary of State agree that when the new measures are in place, we will require long-term...

Chris Huhne | 520 c1076 (Link to this contribution) I think the hon. Lady will welcome our provisions in the Energy Bill, which is being debated in the ...

Paul Flynn | 520 c1075 (Link to this contribution) On what day in May was the right hon. Gentleman bewitched by the Pied Piper of nuclear power into le...

Ian Swales | 520 c1073 (Link to this contribution) How can the Secretary of State ensure that those who want to invest the much-needed billions right n...

Chris Huhne | 520 c1067-9 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Lady for her comments and particularly for the helpful way in which she couched the...

Paul Flynn | 520 c1069 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Is it appropriate, given what the Speaker has said about ...

Speaker | 520 c1069 (Link to this contribution) Strictly speaking, that is not a point of order, but while I am on my feet let me say what I was goi...

Chris Huhne | 520 c1076 (Link to this contribution) I refer my hon. Friend to our extensive answers on the green deal scheme in Energy and Climate Chang...

Chris Huhne | 520 c1076 (Link to this contribution) We are already in very close contact with the suppliers, and we anticipate that deliveries will be a...

Chris Huhne | 520 c1075 (Link to this contribution) I believe that my hon. Friend the Energy Minister is making good progress on that. We have made good...

Adrian Bailey | 520 c1074 (Link to this contribution) Can I take up the theme of a previous questioner? The history of renewable projects has been bedevil...

Chris Huhne | 520 c1075 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is a careful student of the economics of nuclear power and is well aware of the t...

Chris Huhne | 520 c1073-4 (Link to this contribution) I take it that when the hon. Gentleman says ““the domestic oil sector,”” he means the offshore oil a...

Chris Huhne | 520 c1073 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend and I have had discussions on the specifics of biomass power stations, and I hope tha...

Chris Huhne | 520 c1074 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his question because Ministers and senior officials were discuss...

Chris Huhne | 520 c1072 (Link to this contribution) On the first point, we are consulting on the capacity payments scheme, and obviously the details wil...

Stewart Hosie | 520 c1073 (Link to this contribution) The statement was very clear: there will be new incentives, including for nuclear. That is a subsidy...

Chris Huhne | 520 c1071 (Link to this contribution) We would aim to get the White Paper out in the spring and legislation landed in this place before th...

Barry Gardiner | 520 c1072 (Link to this contribution) Capacity payments have resolved one problem the Secretary of State had, which was the falling-off of...

Chris Huhne | 520 c1070-1 (Link to this contribution) There are two parts to the hon. Gentleman's question. The first was whether the proposals are a subs...

Neil Carmichael | 520 c1071 (Link to this contribution) ... I was just surprised to be asked. I very much welcome the reforms, which are an excellent start...

Chris Huhne | 520 c1064-6 (Link to this contribution) statement. Today, we begin consulting on the reform of the electricity market. This programme sits a...

Lord Whitehead | 520 c1069 (Link to this contribution) I strongly welcome the content of the statement on the future construction of energy markets and how...

Chris Huhne | 520 c1069-70 (Link to this contribution) Clearly we want to have low carbon sources of supply, but I have made it clear that we are intending...

Duncan Hames | 520 c1070 (Link to this contribution) There is, unfortunately, something of an uncertainty paradox, in that measures that seek to create s...

Chris Huhne | 520 c1070 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that question. When he reads the documentation we have tabled, h...

David Hamilton | 520 c1070 (Link to this contribution) I hope the Minister can find a way of sitting down now and again. In terms of nuclear energy, we ar...

Robert Buckland | 520 c1076 (Link to this contribution) Manufacturers in and around my constituency and elsewhere are doing what they can on a small scale t...

Chris Huhne | 520 c1076 (Link to this contribution) I do not know how the hon. Gentleman got the impression that wave and tidal are unloved. They are ce...

Russell Brown | 520 c1075 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State has mentioned the significant investment that will be required. Does he recog...

Paul Flynn | 520 c1075 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. In view of the unsatisfactory nature of that reply, can I...

Speaker | 520 c1075 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman knows full well that that is not a point of order, but he has got his point on th...

Thomas Docherty | 520 c1075 (Link to this contribution) First, can I welcome the Secretary of State restating his long-held, principled and consistent commi...

Chris Huhne | 520 c1074-5 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right. Some issues can be tackled at national level; one planning issue on ons...

Chris Huhne | 520 c1074 (Link to this contribution) We are consulting on two levels, as the hon. Lady will see in the documentation: 450 and 600 grams. ...

Alun Cairns | 520 c1074 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State's statement includes some ambitious targets for renewables by 2020. What cons...

Caroline Lucas | 520 c1074 (Link to this contribution) I welcome part of the statement, although certainly not the part on nuclear, and I suspect that the ...

Chris Huhne | 520 c1073 (Link to this contribution) I could not be clearer than to say that there is no subsidy here which attaches to nuclear power. Th...

Malcolm Wicks | 520 c1071 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the broad thrust of the statement. Does the Secretary of State agree that notwithstanding ...

Chris Huhne | 520 c1071-2 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for his question. He is one of the most informed people in...

Speaker | 520 c1072 (Link to this contribution) Order. I ask again for short questions and short answers. Given that oral questions preceded the sta...

Martin Horwood | 520 c1072 (Link to this contribution) Given the fresh security concerns about nuclear power, its notorious inflexibility and intermittency...

Subjects

Consumers Construction Electricity generation Energy supply Security Reform Renewable energy Regional electricity companies Carbon emissions Fossil fuelled power stations

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