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Opposition day on Wednesday, 19 October 2011, in the House of Commons, led by Caroline Flint. The answering member was Chris Huhne.

Energy Prices

Unallotted opposition day debate. Closure motion. Agreed to on question. Main question agreed to.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
533 c929-1007 
Session
2010-12
Department
Department of Energy and Climate Change
Procedure
Closure motions
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Speaker | 533 c953 (Link to this contribution) Order. I must now announce the result of the deferred Division on the question relating to the Adjou...
Speaker | 533 c984 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am going to try to fit in as many speakers as I can. I am therefore reducing the time limit...
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Andrew George | 533 c932 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Lady bemoans the unfairness in the direct debit discounts and the way in which those ...
Caroline Flint | 533 c932 (Link to this contribution) For a start, we had the most ambitious programme to help people in fuel poverty deal with their bill...
Steve Barclay | 533 c932-3 (Link to this contribution) Can the right hon. Lady explain why, in 2000, the Labour Government set a 10-year target of securing...
Caroline Flint | 533 c933 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to support the Labour Government's ambitious plans to be at the forefront of supporting r...
Caroline Flint | 533 c931 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely, and that is in our motion today. Every Member of this House has a chance to vote to urge...
Sandra Osborne | 533 c931 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that shopping around, as people are being told to do, is a totally h...
Caroline Flint | 533 c931-2 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. There is no point in the companies having a system that does not recognise the situation...
Mike Weir | 533 c931 (Link to this contribution) Are things not, in fact, even worse than that? People can reduce the amount that they pay by switchi...
Caroline Flint | 533 c931 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that the problem has got even worse in the last year. Prices have been going up, even th...
Caroline Dinenage | 533 c931 (Link to this contribution) I recognise the passion with which the right hon. Lady speaks. I share her passion, because many peo...
Caroline Flint | 533 c930 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes the point that many of our constituents are making about mis-selling, and the b...
Sajid Javid | 533 c930 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Lady will be aware that energy prices soared in Britain between 1997 and 2010. Heatin...
Caroline Flint | 533 c930 (Link to this contribution) That is why, as we left office, we set in train the opportunity to put in place a more balanced ener...
Robert Flello | 533 c930 (Link to this contribution) My constituents, when they look at this vast array of different tariffs, step back and think, ““Well...
Charles Walker | 533 c930 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady agree that we should have been increasing generating capacity and building more n...
Caroline Flint | 533 c929-30 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That this House believes that the energy market does not serve the public interest an...
Caroline Flint | 533 c939 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure whether that means that the Secretary of State now supports our demand for a full inve...
Angela C Smith | 533 c938 (Link to this contribution) Unemployment is at the highest level for 20 years, we have an austerity programme that makes the eye...
Caroline Flint | 533 c939 (Link to this contribution) I will continue to expand on my theme a little, if I may, but I will be happy for the hon. Lady to i...
Chris Huhne | 533 c939 (Link to this contribution) In fact, what I said was not worth doing was referring the matter to the Competition Commission, bec...
Caroline Flint | 533 c939 (Link to this contribution) I think I have already said that, back in 2007, we embarked on securing Europe-wide support for refo...
Laura Sandys | 533 c938-9 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Lady is making a critique of the current regulatory regime, which was the Labour Gove...
Caroline Flint | 533 c938 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend. Given all the spin before the energy summit on Monday, it was disappoin...
Jonathan Edwards | 533 c938 (Link to this contribution) Before I came to this place, I worked for Citizens Advice, so I know that energy poverty has led to ...
Caroline Flint | 533 c937-8 (Link to this contribution) I understand that the wholesale price has gone down from its peak in 2008 by two thirds; in fact, wh...
Steve Barclay | 533 c937 (Link to this contribution) A central theme of the right hon. Lady's remarks seems to be gas prices and bills for consumers. Wil...
Sammy Wilson | 533 c936 (Link to this contribution) I note what the right hon. Lady has said about her support for the Climate Change Act 2008, but will...
Caroline Flint | 533 c936 (Link to this contribution) What will be the cost if we rely on fossil fuels for ever more? What difficulties would that create,...
John Robertson | 533 c936 (Link to this contribution) What does my right hon. Friend say to people in the poorer parts of my constituency where energy eff...
Caroline Flint | 533 c936-7 (Link to this contribution) We stand up for them. We stand up for them when they are not getting the best deal they can for thei...
Robert Flello | 533 c937 (Link to this contribution) On that specific point, families face a double whammy, as not only have their own gas and electricit...
Caroline Flint | 533 c937 (Link to this contribution) Yes, and all this takes place in an environment in which unemployment is going up and growth is goin...
Anne Marie Morris | 533 c937 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Lady share my particular concern for the south-west, given that if we add energy...
Caroline Flint | 533 c937 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady speaks up for the south-west and I know that she has raised questions a number of time...
Caroline Flint | 533 c935-6 (Link to this contribution) Whatever we do in public policy, the important thing is always to see whether it is hitting the mark...
Guy Opperman | 533 c935 (Link to this contribution) May I draw the attention of my right hon. Friend to the report on fuel poverty by the Office of Fair...
Caroline Flint | 533 c934-5 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that Edwina Currie was in the news again only last week, when she said that she was not ...
Caroline Flint | 533 c933 (Link to this contribution) We are clearly on record as saying that we need to reform this distorted market. We need openness an...
John Robertson | 533 c933-4 (Link to this contribution) Has my right hon. Friend had a chance to look at John Hills's report on fuel poverty? He talks about...
Jim Shannon | 533 c933 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Lady agree that the energy companies need to be regulated, and that, along with ...
Caroline Flint | 533 c934 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend brings to the House the expertise of a public health expert, and she makes an excelle...
Robert Flello | 533 c934 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend will recall, as will most Members when the Government take us back to the 1980s...
Caroline Flint | 533 c934 (Link to this contribution) I was pleased to be able to have a meeting with John Hills this morning to discuss his report. I wou...
Baroness Berger | 533 c998-9 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to have the chance to close this afternoon's Opposition day debate. This year, million...
Chris Huhne | 533 c1000 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady mentions the clear plan from the right hon. Member for Don Valley (Caroline Flint), bu...
Lord Watts | 533 c999 (Link to this contribution) Is my hon. Friend aware that even when people switch, many of them find they are paying more for the...
Baroness Berger | 533 c999-1000 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention and I shall cover that point in just a few moments. Ther...
Baroness Berger | 533 c1001-2 (Link to this contribution) The point is that we want responsible business, which is what this debate is all about. The challen...
Baroness Coffey | 533 c1001 (Link to this contribution) I hear a lot of talk about the energy companies and recognise that we want to be critical friends. D...
Baroness Berger | 533 c1000-1 (Link to this contribution) The point of the debate is that we are trying to get action from the Government now, this winter. We...
Speaker | 533 c1000 (Link to this contribution) Order. We must have interventions from the Dispatch Box. It is no good the Secretary of State chunte...
Charles Hendry | 533 c1002 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to have the chance to respond to what has been, broadly, an excellent, high-quality a...
Charles Hendry | 533 c1002-3 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman popped in 10 minutes ago, while others have been here for five and a half hours, ...
Caroline Flint | 533 c1003 (Link to this contribution) The Opposition are certainly not suggesting that people should not try to get the best deal. The pro...
Charles Hendry | 533 c1004-5 (Link to this contribution) I will give way if there is time later, but I want to respond to all the points that have been made....
Charles Hendry | 533 c1005-6 (Link to this contribution) I will not give way, as I have several other points that I want to make, including some on the hon. ...
Alan Campbell | 533 c1006-7 (Link to this contribution) claimed to move the closure (Standing Order No. 36). Question put forthwith, That the Question be n...
Chris Evans | 533 c993-4 (Link to this contribution) I do not agree, and I am sorry but I do not think that that adds to the debate at all. We have to de...
Lord Whitehead | 533 c994-6 (Link to this contribution) What the public want to know, in the context of this debate and elsewhere, is why energy prices keep...
Chris Evans | 533 c992-3 (Link to this contribution) I will try to keep my comments short. I have listened to the debate and I am seriously concerned. We...
Jonathan Lord | 533 c993 (Link to this contribution) Is it not the case that over the past 10 years only 50,000-odd customers have been serviced by indep...
Speaker | 533 c996 (Link to this contribution) Order. The wind-ups are to start no later than 6.30 pm.
Mike Weir | 533 c996-8 (Link to this contribution) In his opening salvo against the Labour party, the Secretary of State rightly condemned the previous...
Speaker | 533 c992 (Link to this contribution) Order. We have three remaining speakers. The winding-up speeches will start at 6.30, so speeches of ...
David Mowat | 533 c992 (Link to this contribution) Is it the position of the Opposition Front-Bench team that the big six should be fined 10% of turnov...
Baroness Berger | 533 c991 (Link to this contribution) Four of the big six energy companies have admitted that they had been involved in doorstep selling p...
David Mowat | 533 c990-1 (Link to this contribution) I will speak as briefly as I can about three issues: unconventional gas, fuel poverty, and what we s...
Pat Glass | 533 c986 (Link to this contribution) I agree, and it is not just businesses either; it is schools and colleges, too, that are being drive...
Andrew George | 533 c986 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for North West Durham (Pat Glass) in the light of how thi...
Andrew George | 533 c986 (Link to this contribution) I do not think I have said anything yet, but I am happy to give way.
Ian Lavery | 533 c986 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way. Is he as surprised as I am that Government Members are su...
Andrew George | 533 c986-8 (Link to this contribution) No, I am not at all surprised that the Government have decided that, on balance, looking at the moti...
Alex Cunningham | 533 c988-90 (Link to this contribution) This debate covers the important topics of rising energy prices and their effects. The combination o...
Nicholas Dakin | 533 c985-6 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making a powerful argument to show how these massive energy cost rises are having ...
Pat Glass | 533 c984-5 (Link to this contribution) Thank you for calling me to speak in this important debate, Mr Deputy Speaker. This subject is of hu...
Cathy Jamieson | 533 c983-4 (Link to this contribution) I am listening carefully to what the hon. Gentleman is saying, some of which I agree with, but I won...
Damian Hinds | 533 c984 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is absolutely spot-on; indeed, I was just coming to that point. There are organisation...
Justin Tomlinson | 533 c983 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend on making an excellent speech. On empowering consumers, one of the cha...
Damian Hinds | 533 c983 (Link to this contribution) My understanding of the recent Ofgem announcement is that there is some provision for ensuring that ...
Baroness Berger | 533 c982 (Link to this contribution) We fully support the green deal, which we piloted when Labour was in government in the pay-as-you-sa...
Damian Hinds | 533 c982-3 (Link to this contribution) The fact that the hon. Lady made those points does not make them bad points, and there will be furth...
Karl Turner | 533 c981 (Link to this contribution) Not at the moment. As I have said, household income is a key factor in fuel poverty, but the Govern...
Damian Hinds | 533 c981-2 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for this opportunity to make what I intend will be a brief contribution to this import...
Baroness Coffey | 533 c981 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Karl Turner | 533 c980-1 (Link to this contribution) That was my point—the Government are in charge. Labour's Warm Front grant has helped more than 2 mi...
Steve Baker | 533 c978-9 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful, and with that I will perhaps move past shale gas. My point was that there are enormou...
Karl Turner | 533 c979-80 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to have managed to catch your eye, Mr Deputy Speaker, to be called to speak in this imp...
Charles Hendry | 533 c980 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way. The reality is that the allowance was introduced...
Karl Turner | 533 c980 (Link to this contribution) That is absolute nonsense. This Government are running the country, and winter fuel payments have be...
Steve Baker | 533 c977-8 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to the hon. Gentleman. It seems that these days we throw billions around casually...
Lord Whitehead | 533 c978 (Link to this contribution) Before the hon. Gentleman gets completely carried away with the shale gas paradise, does he not unde...
Steve Baker | 533 c978 (Link to this contribution) I think perhaps the hon. Gentleman and I will have to put our researchers in a room and have them fi...
David Mowat | 533 c978 (Link to this contribution) It is not true to say that shale gas is more expensive than conventional gas. In the US, gas prices ...
Jim Cunningham | 533 c980 (Link to this contribution) Once again, the Minister has given an alibi. If the previous Labour Government planned what he says ...
Sammy Wilson | 533 c977 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the hon. Gentleman noticed that the Secretary of State talked about the capital cost tha...
Steve Baker | 533 c977 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that all Members are here today for the same reason: our constituents are struggling with ...
John Robertson | 533 c976-7 (Link to this contribution) Yes. According to the Hills report, that will happen because of the increases. My right hon. Friend ...
Nick Smith | 533 c974 (Link to this contribution) My constituency is 1,200 feet above sea level, its winters can be bitter, and the latest figures sho...
John Robertson | 533 c973-4 (Link to this contribution) I will try not to use the whole 12 minutes available, as in many ways my contribution will be a repe...
Speaker | 533 c973 (Link to this contribution) Exactly. I remind Members that the wind-ups are due to start at 6.30 pm and that a large number of M...
Baroness Coffey | 533 c972-3 (Link to this contribution) In that case, I misunderstood the hon. Gentleman's original intervention. He makes a fair point. In ...
Ian Lavery | 533 c976 (Link to this contribution) It was said earlier that probably 36,000 people died last year as a result of cold-related illness. ...
John Robertson | 533 c975-6 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is talking about a completely different area. I will talk about windfall taxes la...
David Mowat | 533 c975 (Link to this contribution) I hear the hon. Gentleman's comment on super-profits, but perhaps he will tell the House which way h...
John Robertson | 533 c974 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention, and I will come on to the points that he makes, but to ...
Baroness Coffey | 533 c971 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention. The reason I am hesitating is that I probably need...
Jim Shannon | 533 c971 (Link to this contribution) In my constituency, and I suspect in many constituencies across the whole United Kingdom, elderly pe...
Jim Shannon | 533 c971 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Lady for her generosity in allowing me to intervene again. An example would be gas ...
Jim Shannon | 533 c966-7 (Link to this contribution) My constituents spend 10% of their incomes on fuel, and 44% of them are experiencing fuel poverty. S...
Robin Walker | 533 c967-8 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the fact that France has the lowest energy costs serves to highli...
Sammy Wilson | 533 c967 (Link to this contribution) Yes, and I shall say more about that later. Part of the problem is a direct result of Government po...
Sammy Wilson | 533 c968 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely agree. I have consistently supported that, and back home have received some criticism f...
Sammy Wilson | 533 c968-9 (Link to this contribution) Now that I have had my say on this particular part of the motion, I want to discuss some of the ways...
Sammy Wilson | 533 c966 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to take part in what I believe is a timely debate. There is general concern about the s...
Speaker | 533 c966 (Link to this contribution) Order. Before I call the next speaker, I remind the House that the convention is that interventions ...
James Morris | 533 c966 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point about the collection of benefits available. There is an issu...
James Morris | 533 c965 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman makes a good point, but the Government had to make some decisions about spe...
Lord Dodds of Duncairn | 533 c965 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is making a considered speech, dealing with all the elements involved in this com...
James Morris | 533 c965 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point. The energy companies need to simplify the tariffs, but as s...
Laura Sandys | 533 c965 (Link to this contribution) May I add that it is not only the most vulnerable people in society who do not understand the tariff...
James Morris | 533 c963-5 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Wentworth and Dearne (John Healey), who made a ...
John Healey | 533 c962-3 (Link to this contribution) I will not give way for the moment. The third way in which the Government are failing is that they ...
Guy Opperman | 533 c960-1 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful for my hon. Friend's intervention, and I endorse her point. It is incumbent on u...
Sarah Newton | 533 c960 (Link to this contribution) One of the next steps identified by the OFT was for the Government to take, because it acknowledged ...
Guy Opperman | 533 c960 (Link to this contribution) The Minister of State, Department of Energy and Climate Change, my hon. Friend the Member for Wealde...
Pat Glass | 533 c960 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to my constituency neighbour for giving way, as we have very similar constituenci...
Andrew George | 533 c962 (Link to this contribution) I believe that the previous Government were well intentioned with regard to the Warm Front scheme, b...
John Healey | 533 c961-2 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right when he says that, for many, high energy prices mean a choice bet...
Ian Lavery | 533 c961 (Link to this contribution) To put a bit of humility into the debate and to cut across party politics, the fact of the matter is...
John Healey | 533 c961 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Hexham (Guy Opperman), who pointed out some important...
Sarah Newton | 533 c962 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Chris Huhne | 533 c949-50 (Link to this contribution) We will be bringing forward the consultation document on the green deal and the ECO subsidy shortly,...
Caroline Flint | 533 c950 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for referring to the situation with carbon capture and storage projec...
Chris Huhne | 533 c949 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Lady about to ask about carbon capture and storage perhaps?
Baroness Berger | 533 c949 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for giving way. He said that energy saving was one of those prongs, a...
Andrew George | 533 c951 (Link to this contribution) I appreciate that my right hon. Friend is giving the House the benefit of time and his advice on the...
Chris Huhne | 533 c950-1 (Link to this contribution) No, I disagree with that. I think that we have a very good track record at a number of our leading u...
Mike Weir | 533 c950 (Link to this contribution) Earlier in his speech, the Secretary of State referred to the disgraceful decision of the previous G...
Chris Huhne | 533 c950 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that question. It is absolutely right; we have learned an enormous amount from tha...
Ian Lavery | 533 c951 (Link to this contribution) A billion pounds was allocated to the CCS project at Longannet. I am amazed by what was said at Prim...
Caroline Flint | 533 c952 (Link to this contribution) Will that include customers who have already been victims of mis-selling or is the policy only for t...
Chris Huhne | 533 c952 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Lady knows that unfortunately it is a strong principle right across the House, and I ...
Karl Turner | 533 c952 (Link to this contribution) Did the Secretary of State raise the issue of mis-selling at the energy summit? It seems to me that ...
Chris Huhne | 533 c952 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is quite wrong about that. Mis-selling is clear. Ofgem had already tackled that w...
Chris Huhne | 533 c953 (Link to this contribution) I certainly agree. We have been talking to Ofgem about this and we have been talking with the big si...
Caroline Flint | 533 c953 (Link to this contribution) At Prime Minister's Question Time today the Prime Minister suggested that he supported the opening u...
Chris Huhne | 533 c953 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that I have finished my speech, as delighted as I would have been to give way to my neig...
Lord Whitehead | 533 c953 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Speaker | 533 c953 (Link to this contribution) Order. I must now announce the result of the deferred Division on the question relating to the Adjou...
Albert Owen | 533 c955 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is trying to intervene. Would she like to intervene on that point?
Baroness Coffey | 533 c955 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I would. I appreciate that the hon. Gentleman is a little sore because his island is not going ...
Albert Owen | 533 c954-5 (Link to this contribution) I am a fellow Welshman, but my energy policy is different from that of the hon. Gentleman. Wales is ...
Albert Owen | 533 c953-4 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the Secretary of State. I had intended to be non-partisan and speak in fa...
Jonathan Edwards | 533 c954 (Link to this contribution) As a proud Welshman, like myself, is the hon. Gentleman not perplexed that Wales, despite being a ne...
Baroness Coffey | 533 c955 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Albert Owen | 533 c955 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry if the hon. Lady was not listening, but I believe that we will have a new nuclear power s...
Baroness Coffey | 533 c955 (Link to this contribution) Well, I apologise, but who does the hon. Gentleman think is going to pay for it? It will be the ener...
Guy Opperman | 533 c958 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman obviously did not hear what the ministerial team said earlier, which addressed th...
Sarah Newton | 533 c958 (Link to this contribution) I apologise that I was not here for the first part of my hon. Friend's speech, but an urgent matter ...
Guy Opperman | 533 c958 (Link to this contribution) I totally endorse that point, particularly in relation to pricing practices and the considerably enh...
Andrew George | 533 c958-9 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right on that point. Across the country as a whole, a little under ...
Albert Owen | 533 c956-7 (Link to this contribution) No, I am not going to give way again. I was talking about excessive profits, but I am going to devel...
Guy Opperman | 533 c957-8 (Link to this contribution) I genuinely believe that this winter there will be choices between heating and eating for individual...
Karl Turner | 533 c958 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is making a powerful speech on behalf of his constituents. I wonder whether he wi...
Albert Owen | 533 c959 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to help the hon. Gentleman by saying that we are going to have a further inquiry into t...
Guy Opperman | 533 c959 (Link to this contribution) With respect, I would say that the answer is somewhere in between. There cannot be regulation withou...
Guy Opperman | 533 c959-60 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful, and I hope that as part of that inquiry the Committee will examine the weighty r...
Geraint Davies | 533 c945 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is saying that he wants to be a champion of consumer rights. He will be awa...
Chris Huhne | 533 c945 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman, which is why we are happy not to oppose the motion. I agree that th...
Chris Huhne | 533 c945 (Link to this contribution) I will make a little progress before I give way. Our approach means working together across the con...
Chris Huhne | 533 c945 (Link to this contribution) That is a very good point. It is certainly the case that over the past year there has been a substan...
Michael Connarty | 533 c945 (Link to this contribution) One of my constituents has taken the trouble to analyse each section of his bill. He found that alth...
Chris Huhne | 533 c944 (Link to this contribution) I will make a little progress before giving way again. Across the country, rising energy prices are...
Mike Weir | 533 c944 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that the choice of language is important? He says that we can re...
Huw Irranca-Davies | 533 c944 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his civility. However, he is rewriting history yet again. What ...
Chris Huhne | 533 c944 (Link to this contribution) We do not need to go as far back as that. As the hon. Gentleman knows, the coalition reached an agre...
Chris Huhne | 533 c944 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to give way to the hon. Gentleman, who, sadly, has lost his Front-Bench role dealing with...
Chris Huhne | 533 c943-4 (Link to this contribution) I will happily give way in a moment, but having listed a few legacy issues that we are attempting to...
Chris Huhne | 533 c943 (Link to this contribution) Carbon capture and storage is a crucial technology if we are to ensure that the coal mines and miner...
Chris Huhne | 533 c943 (Link to this contribution) There was not a single comprehensive energy saving package throughout the time of the last Labour Go...
Speaker | 533 c943 (Link to this contribution) Order. If the right hon. Gentleman does not wish to give way, he cannot be made to do so. I ask Memb...
Huw Irranca-Davies | 533 c941 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State has focused on the fact that switching suppliers might save people as much as...
Caroline Flint | 533 c941 (Link to this contribution) If it is true that every customer who followed the Energy Secretary's advice could save £200, why do...
Damian Hinds | 533 c941 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Lady give way?
Caroline Flint | 533 c942-3 (Link to this contribution) No. I will not take any more interventions, because I want to leave time for other Members on both s...
Caroline Flint | 533 c948 (Link to this contribution) Is it not the case that only about one in 20 pensioners will benefit from the warm homes discount, w...
Chris Huhne | 533 c948 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Lady again makes a point about winter fuel payments which I should have picked her up...
Baroness Berger | 533 c949 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Chris Huhne | 533 c949 (Link to this contribution) I must make a bit of progress with my speech; otherwise I fear we will be here all night. Over the ...
Chris Huhne | 533 c947-8 (Link to this contribution) I certainly will congratulate the hon. Lady's local council and every council, of all parties, on th...
Sarah Newton | 533 c947 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State is making an excellent point about targeting resources where they are necessa...
Chris Huhne | 533 c947 (Link to this contribution) The sort of people the right hon. Lady is talking about are the sort of people we are particularly t...
Chris Huhne | 533 c946 (Link to this contribution) I cannot resist, although I hope that the hon. Gentleman will be raising a matter concerning fuel po...
John Robertson | 533 c946 (Link to this contribution) My speech is full of stuff on fuel poverty, but I wish to pick up on one of the points that the Secr...
Chris Huhne | 533 c946 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman needs to examine the situation for households. It is clearly the case that Sweden...
Chris Huhne | 533 c946 (Link to this contribution) I am going to make a bit of progress before giving way again. The hon. Member for Angus (Mr Weir) ha...
Caroline Flint | 533 c946-7 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State makes much of the fact that people will be able to save if they switch. What ...
Chris Huhne | 533 c945-6 (Link to this contribution) I do not agree with the hon. Gentleman on that. I care as passionately as he does about consumer rig...
Albert Owen | 533 c940 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that the Energy and Climate Change Committee, of which I am a member...
Caroline Flint | 533 c940 (Link to this contribution) Obviously we will explore that in a little more detail, but I think it is clear that those who have ...
Chris Huhne | 533 c940 (Link to this contribution) I announced some weeks ago that we were considering redress for consumers. Moreover, we have said th...
Pat Glass | 533 c941 (Link to this contribution) It is all very well for the Prime Minister to tell people that they should insulate their homes. It ...
Caroline Flint | 533 c940-1 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. People are not stupid, but sometimes I feel that the leaders in this countr...
Ian Mearns | 533 c940 (Link to this contribution) It is not just the mis-selling itself, but the fact that it has taken place within the confines of w...
Caroline Flint | 533 c940 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is entirely right, and I pay due respect to all the members of the Select Committee. ...
Caroline Flint | 533 c941 (Link to this contribution) I agree. There are measures that Government can take. However, they can also show leadership and exe...
Geraint Davies | 533 c941 (Link to this contribution) One in four children in Swansea currently live in absolute poverty, which means that every day a cho...
Caroline Flint | 533 c930-1 (Link to this contribution) That is one of the reasons why in 2007 we started discussions across Europe, as part of the new thir...
Baroness Coffey | 533 c969-71 (Link to this contribution) It is always a pleasure to speak in these debates. The usual faces are here—the people who regularly...
Sarah Newton | 533 c965-6 (Link to this contribution) On that point, many more pensioners will benefit as a result of the warm home payment. Is it not a h...
Chris Huhne | 533 c951 (Link to this contribution) I can reassure the House that on the basis of the feed studies, that does not raise questions about ...
Chris Huhne | 533 c951-2 (Link to this contribution) Let me say clearly that one of the things we will do is attempt to align our deadlines on this with ...
Chris Huhne | 533 c943 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Member for Don Valley (Caroline Flint) brings a wealth of Government experience to he...
John Pugh | 533 c948 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State may be aware that north of my constituency a find of 200 trillion cubic feet ...
Caroline Flint | 533 c938 (Link to this contribution) We had something like that, but I am afraid that the present Government have taken it away. If we wa...
Debbie Abrahams | 533 c934 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my right hon. Friend that we should be challenging the big six over their excessive pro...
Baroness Berger | 533 c1000 (Link to this contribution) The Leader of the Opposition has said that we are seeking to break the dominance of the big six. He ...
Charles Hendry | 533 c1003-4 (Link to this contribution) It will be a combination. That information will be on their bills if it is believed that they could ...
Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown | 533 c968 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the increase in fuel prices will lead to many of our elderly and disa...
John Healey | 533 c962 (Link to this contribution) I do not know whether there is anything peculiar about the contractors and suppliers in St Ives, but...
Chris Huhne | 533 c948-9 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that question. Our overall energy policy is designed to be robus...
Caroline Flint | 533 c941 (Link to this contribution) We have been campaigning for something to be done about that from 2016, but I understand that the Go...
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Companies Competition Billing Carbon capture and storage Energy Ofgem Fuel poverty Fuel oil Prices Winter fuel payment Social tariffs
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