Ministerial statement on Thursday, 31 October 2013, in the House of Commons, led by Ed Davey.

Annual Energy Statement

Statement on the annual energy statement and the statutory security of supply report.

Secondary information

Type: Parliamentary proceeding
Reference: 569 cc1092-1111
Session: 2013-14
Department: Department of Energy and Climate Change
Chamber / Committee: House of Commons chamber
Related items: Annual Energy Statement
Thursday, 31 October 2013
Command papers
House of Lords
House of Commons; Statutory Security of Supply Report 2013 and Government Response to the Electricity Capacity Assessment Report
Thursday, 31 October 2013
House of Commons papers
House of Lords
House of Commons; Energy: Company Accounts
Tuesday, 17 December 2013
Written questions
House of Commons; Energy: Competition
Tuesday, 17 December 2013
Written questions
House of Commons; Energy: Competition
Tuesday, 17 December 2013
Written questions
House of Commons; Energy
Thursday, 19 December 2013
Written questions
House of Commons
Proceeding contributions: Ed Davey | 569 cc1093-6 (Link to this contribution)
Today, I am laying before the House the annual energy statement, alongside the statutory security...; John Bercow | 569 c1096 (Link to this contribution)
Order. The remainder of the statement must be heard. Matters are not greatly assisted by the fact...; Ed Davey | 569 c1096 (Link to this contribution)
I am concluding, Mr Speaker.
As set out in the annual statement, the Government are acting ...; Caroline Flint | 569 cc1096-8 (Link to this contribution)
Oh, dearie me. A coherent energy policy? I must say that I feel for the Secretary of State, becau...; Ed Davey | 569 cc1098-9 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the right hon. Lady for her response, in which there was clearly not a single apology to ...; 569 c1099 (Link to this contribution)
rose—; John Bercow | 569 c1099 (Link to this contribution)
Order. A very large number of right hon. and hon. Members are seeking to catch my eye. I would li...; Robert Smith | 569 c1099 (Link to this contribution)
I am delighted to welcome the fact that the Government support the Energy and Climate Change Comm...; Ed Davey | 569 c1099 (Link to this contribution)
I thank my hon. Friend and the other members of the Committee, whose reports and their grilling o...; Glenda Jackson | 569 c1099 (Link to this contribution)
As the stick of competition, to which the Secretary of State referred, shattered at the first blo...; Ed Davey | 569 c1099 (Link to this contribution)
I agree with the hon. Lady that the evidence that green taxes are pushing up bills is quite weak....; Tim Yeo | 569 c1099 (Link to this contribution)
I congratulate the Secretary of State on an excellent statement. Will he now consider the introdu...; Ed Davey | 569 c1100 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman’s question, which he also asked me when I appeared before th...; 569 c1100 (Link to this contribution)
rose—; John Bercow | 569 c1100 (Link to this contribution)
Order. May I remind the House that Members who entered the Chamber after the start of the stateme...; Frank Dobson | 569 c1100 (Link to this contribution)
Surely the Secretary of State understands that the public believe that the energy companies are g...; Ed Davey | 569 c1100 (Link to this contribution)
I agree with the right hon. Gentleman on transparency. That is what I announced in my statement a...; Christopher Chope | 569 c1100 (Link to this contribution)
VAT on household energy bills is now yielding the Government about £500 million a year. Why do th...; Ed Davey | 569 c1100 (Link to this contribution)
I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on trying to bring Europe into this debate. I have to tell him ...; Caroline Lucas | 569 c1100 (Link to this contribution)
If the Secretary of State was serious about helping the fuel-poor, surely he would be acting to m...; Ed Davey | 569 c1100 (Link to this contribution)
We are introducing ambitious policies to help the fuel-poor and to retrofit the housing stock. As...; Charles Hendry | 569 c1101 (Link to this contribution)
Does my right hon. Friend agree that some of the levies on energy bills are particularly regressi...; Ed Davey | 569 c1101 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend makes an important point. As we review the levies, and indeed the whole market, we...; Lord Whitehead | 569 c1101 (Link to this contribution)
The Secretary of State will know that yesterday one of his Ministers said that all green and ener...; Ed Davey | 569 c1101 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman, who is very knowledgeable in this area, will have to await the outcome of the...; Tobias Ellwood | 569 c1101 (Link to this contribution)
There has been an awful lot of talk about the six big energy companies. Will the Secretary of Sta...; Ed Davey | 569 c1101 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend asks a very good question. In 2000, we had 17 energy companies—three generators an...; Stephen Doughty | 569 c1101 (Link to this contribution)
Despite the Secretary of State’s unwillingness to take on the big six energy companies, will he c...; Ed Davey | 569 c1101 (Link to this contribution)
I am glad that those councils have caught up. It was this Secretary of State and this Government ...; Tony Baldry | 569 c1102 (Link to this contribution)
When John Wakeham and I privatised the electricity industry in 1990, we left more than 20 distrib...; Ed Davey | 569 c1102 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend is absolutely right. The reason I want to keep debating energy is that the more th...; Baroness Berger | 569 c1102 (Link to this contribution)
The public will be appalled by the Secretary of State’s statement. He has announced a review that...; Ed Davey | 569 c1102 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Lady and her hon. Friends are doing their constituents a huge disservice. The truth is t...; David Heath | 569 c1102 (Link to this contribution)
I was pleased to hear the Secretary of State mention credit balances. Is it not clear that many p...; Ed Davey | 569 c1102 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend is right to raise that matter, which Ofgem is looking into. My right hon. Friend t...; Yvonne Fovargue | 569 c1102 (Link to this contribution)
As stated yesterday, the recent uSwitch survey showed that on one or more occasion last winter 75...; Ed Davey | 569 c1102 (Link to this contribution)
We want to do more for those people, which is why we are pushing switching and collective switchi...; David Mowat | 569 c1103 (Link to this contribution)
During her remarks, the shadow Secretary of State said that she believes “secret deals” were bein...; Ed Davey | 569 c1103 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend makes a good point. If the right hon. Lady knows of secret information, I hope she...; Mike Weir | 569 c1103 (Link to this contribution)
The Secretary of State made the point that much of the increase in bills has been due to increase...; Ed Davey | 569 c1103 (Link to this contribution)
First, over a period it is absolutely clear that the wholesale price of gas has been pushing up b...; Chris Heaton-Harris | 569 c1103 (Link to this contribution)
Will the Secretary of State acknowledge that for too long his Department’s drive for expensive an...; Ed Davey | 569 c1103 (Link to this contribution)
I have to say that the hon. Gentleman is wrong about that. We are trying to ensure we help the fu...; Ian Lavery | 569 c1104 (Link to this contribution)
Not one measure in the Secretary of State’s statement will prevent the projected death of 24,000 ...; Ed Davey | 569 c1104 (Link to this contribution)
rose—; Lindsay Hoyle | 569 c1104 (Link to this contribution)
Order. We must have very short questions in order to try to get everyone in. I understand how imp...; Ed Davey | 569 c1104 (Link to this contribution)
We are helping the fuel poor and people who have problems with their bills through, for example, ...; Christopher Pincher | 569 c1104 (Link to this contribution)
Most observers agree that, thanks to the previous Government’s omissions, we must invest a great ...; Ed Davey | 569 c1104 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend is absolutely right. There are many problems with Labour’s energy price freeze. Fi...; Angela C Smith | 569 c1104 (Link to this contribution)
The Secretary of State has nothing to say today about the Chancellor’s imposition of the carbon f...; Ed Davey | 569 c1104 (Link to this contribution)
My right hon. Friend the Chancellor produced, some time ago, a £250 million package to help energ...; Daniel Byles | 569 c1105 (Link to this contribution)
Does my right hon. Friend agree that Labour’s dishonest price con would help Labour’s big six by ...; Ed Davey | 569 c1105 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend is absolutely right. It is interesting that the Leader of the Opposition has switc...; Dennis Skinner | 569 c1105 (Link to this contribution)
The utilities were privatised between 20 and 25 years ago. They have had all that time to prove t...; Ed Davey | 569 c1105 (Link to this contribution)
Hon. Members were waiting for the hon. Gentleman’s last statement. I do not understand where Labo...; Sarah Newton | 569 c1105 (Link to this contribution)
The Government have done far more than the previous one for the people living in the greatest fue...; Ed Davey | 569 c1105 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend is absolutely right. The previous Government failed to do anything for people who ...; Baroness Keeley | 569 c1105 (Link to this contribution)
Can I take the Secretary of State back to the issue of older people, who we know do not switch su...; Ed Davey | 569 c1106 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Lady should catch up, because the Ofgem reforms and the retail market review will put th...; Tessa Munt | 569 c1106 (Link to this contribution)
The Secretary of State will agree that the best way to cut fuel bills is to improve the energy ef...; Ed Davey | 569 c1106 (Link to this contribution)
I have been rather bemused by some of the statements from the big six, especially on the environm...; Tom Blenkinsop | 569 c1106 (Link to this contribution)
When can we expect the full roll-out of the mitigation policies in relation to the Chancellor’s i...; Ed Davey | 569 c1106 (Link to this contribution)
We are having a lot of applications in for the £113 million package that we announced. Money is n...; Peter Bone | 569 c1106 (Link to this contribution)
The Secretary of State could become a national hero today if he announced the abolition of his De...; Ed Davey | 569 c1106 (Link to this contribution)
For a moment, I thought that my hon. Friend was going to ask me to tea with his wife. His manifes...; Jim Fitzpatrick | 569 c1106 (Link to this contribution)
While anything that the Secretary of State can do to rein in the energy companies is welcome, sur...; Ed Davey | 569 c1106 (Link to this contribution)
That is not correct. The energy statement is made every year, and we have been working on many of...; Julian Sturdy | 569 c1107 (Link to this contribution)
My constituents will welcome the Secretary of State’s determination to ensure rigorous competitio...; Ed Davey | 569 c1107 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend makes an important point. If we do not have sufficient capacity, not only will tha...; Nick Smith | 569 c1107 (Link to this contribution)
Wholesale costs are up 1.7% but bills for households will go up by 9%. Does the Secretary of Stat...; Ed Davey | 569 c1107 (Link to this contribution)
We would not want more competition in the market if we were happy with what is going on, but the ...; Charlie Elphicke | 569 c1107 (Link to this contribution)
Does the Secretary of State accept that Labour’s big six are an oligopoly that appears to operate...; Ed Davey | 569 c1107 (Link to this contribution)
We would not be asking for an annual competition assessment if we were not concerned to ensure mo...; Bill Esterson | 569 c1107 (Link to this contribution)
A disabled pensioner couple summed up the views of many of my constituents when they told me that...; Ed Davey | 569 c1107 (Link to this contribution)
Again, the Labour party needs to understand that the retail market review in the Energy Bill will...; Martin Vickers | 569 c1108 (Link to this contribution)
My constituents will welcome the possible introduction of criminal sanctions if any company is fo...; Ed Davey | 569 c1108 (Link to this contribution)
The measures in the Energy Bill provide that, if an individual consumer has been done wrong by an...; Mark Lazarowicz | 569 c1108 (Link to this contribution)
One of my constituents took the Government’s advice and switched his supplier, but he found that ...; Ed Davey | 569 c1108 (Link to this contribution)
I cannot comment on the individual case or why the person decided to switch. If the hon. Gentlema...; Eric Ollerenshaw | 569 c1108 (Link to this contribution)
I congratulate the Secretary of State on finally making the decision on nuclear, something that w...; Ed Davey | 569 c1108 (Link to this contribution)
I have good news for my hon. Friend. We do have generous support for tidal energy and many tidal ...; Jonathan Edwards | 569 c1108 (Link to this contribution)
Wales is a net exporter of electricity—we are an electricity-generation-rich nation. Can the Secr...; Ed Davey | 569 c1108 (Link to this contribution)
We are pleased that Wales is making such a contribution. That is good for the Welsh economy and W...; Duncan Hames | 569 c1108 (Link to this contribution)
I am glad that the Secretary of State wants to make it easier for people to switch electricity su...; Ed Davey | 569 c1109 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful for my hon. Friend’s question. The code of conduct, which the Minister of State wit...; Nicholas Dakin | 569 c1109 (Link to this contribution)
Despite the Secretary of State’s answers to earlier questions, Tata Steel, which announced 340 jo...; Ed Davey | 569 c1109 (Link to this contribution)
I have to tell the hon. Gentleman that we have been working together closely and that is having a...; Damian Hinds | 569 c1109 (Link to this contribution)
There are 10,000 off-grid homes in my constituency. What more can be done to help my constituents...; Ed Davey | 569 c1109 (Link to this contribution)
There are two things that can help my hon. Friend’s constituents and others like them; first, col...; Philip Hollobone | 569 c1109 (Link to this contribution)
Will the Secretary of State consider legislating for the re-separation of electricity generation ...; Ed Davey | 569 c1109 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend should look at the Ofgem proposals, which have backing in the Energy Bill. They wi...; Glyn Davies | 569 c1109 (Link to this contribution)
Will the Secretary of State explain how it can be fair that the most vulnerable people in my cons...; Ed Davey | 569 c1110 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend knows that I cannot comment on the planning application that relates to a lot of w...; Robert Buckland | 569 c1110 (Link to this contribution)
On fuel poverty, is it not the case that, in the five years between 2004 and 2009, an extra 2.8 m...; Ed Davey | 569 c1110 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend is absolutely right. We are keenly focused on tackling fuel poverty through the en...; Robert Halfon | 569 c1110 (Link to this contribution)
As well as high energy bills, motorists continue to face high petrol bills, on average paying £1,...; Ed Davey | 569 c1110 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend invites me to trespass on to the responsibilities of another Secretary of State. I...; Oliver Colvile | 569 c1110 (Link to this contribution)
For 13 years, the Labour Government did little to deal with standing charges. Will my right hon. ...; Ed Davey | 569 c1110 (Link to this contribution)
Ofgem’s retail market review looked at different approaches to standing charges, and there is a d...; Neil Carmichael | 569 c1110 (Link to this contribution)
Increasing capacity is definitely the key to this problem. Ensuring, through the Energy Bill, tha...; Ed Davey | 569 c1111 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend is right. My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has been pushing the case for th...; Bob Blackman | 569 c1111 (Link to this contribution)
Thank you for the exercise, Mr Deputy Speaker. In the next five years, many of our power stations...; Ed Davey | 569 c1111 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend makes a good point. I will not mention the number of power stations, but I can say...; Lindsay Hoyle | 569 c1111 (Link to this contribution)
Last, but certainly not least, I call Andrew Percy.; Andrew Percy | 569 c1111 (Link to this contribution)
I can only assume it is because I am from Yorkshire, Mr Deputy Speaker.
The Energy Secretar...; Ed Davey | 569 c1111 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend is absolutely right, but I have to tell him that it is actually worse that he sugg...
Subjects: Consumers Criminal law Competition Energy Electricity generation Ofgem Energy supply Overpayments Protection Profits Prices
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Annual Energy Statement

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