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Grand Committee
Offshore Petroleum Licensing Bill
Committee stage - Tue 23 Apr 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: None is that it is cheaper to train people in media studies because you do not need a welding set, which costs - Speech Link
2: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) costs rather than be exported on the world market to the highest bidder.Amendments 3 and 8 would establish - Speech Link
3: Lord Lennie (Lab - Life peer) Surely the question of how we make sure that we reduce energy costs must be fundamental to all our considerations - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Household Energy Debt - Tue 23 Apr 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Kenny MacAskill (Alba - East Lothian) as much as the continuing crisis of energy costs. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Lithium: Critical Minerals Supply - Tue 23 Apr 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Cherilyn Mackrory (Con - Truro and Falmouth) In Europe, the energy costs are simply too high, and we must use carbon to melt the metal. - Speech Link
2: Graham Stringer (Lab - Blackley and Broughton) First, we will not be able to make use of natural resources in this country while our energy costs remain - Speech Link
3: Alan Mak (Con - Havant) and domestic industrial resilience, while pursuing cleaner, green forms of energy production. - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Economic Growth (Regulatory Functions) (Amendment) Order 2024 Draft Growth Duty: Statutory Guidance Refresh - Tue 23 Apr 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Peter Grant (SNP - Glenrothes) Can he give us some examples of when actions of the water or energy regulators under the existing system - Speech Link
2: Rushanara Ali (Lab - Bethnal Green and Bow) to make sure that it is meaningful.The economic impact assessment estimated that the familiarisation costs - Speech Link
3: Peter Grant (SNP - Glenrothes) How does it contribute to economic growth that energy companies are allowed to bleed tens of millions - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Food Poverty Strategy - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) They pay more for their energy through prepayment meters, are more likely to be charged to withdraw cash - Speech Link
2: Jo Churchill (Con - Bury St Edmunds) inflation, preventing some 1.3 million households from falling into absolute poverty after housing costs - Speech Link
3: Jo Churchill (Con - Bury St Edmunds) in workless households were more than six times more likely to be in absolute poverty after housing costs - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Carer’s Allowance - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Cat Smith (Lab - Lancaster and Fleetwood) She talked about the carer’s allowance not meeting the costs. - Speech Link
2: Barbara Keeley (Lab - Worsley and Eccles South) Of course, carers face additional costs, which are unavoidable, to keep the person whom they care for - Speech Link
3: Marion Fellows (SNP - Motherwell and Wishaw) Three in five are worried about living costs, 600 have to give up work every single day, and a quarter - Speech Link


Written Statements
Energy Prices Act 2022: Energy Scheme Expenditure - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Claire Coutinho (Con - East Surrey) levelisation; and £0.6 billion for non-domestic energy support, including energy bills relief scheme, - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
Committee stage - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: None a dangerous move from a Government who have refused an AI regulator and are yet to absorb fully the costs - Speech Link
2: None Energy companies are overcharging, and defence companies have overcharged the Government by millions. - Speech Link
3: Lord Vaux of Harrowden (XB - Excepted Hereditary) The impact assessment is rather impenetrable—I cannot find anything in it that covers these costs—so - Speech Link
4: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) rules required, rather than a four-weekly basis, which they actually do; the rules around allowable costs - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Hospice Funding - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Bambos Charalambous (Lab - Enfield, Southgate) The costs of running hospice services, including energy bills and the cost of paying staff a fair wage - Speech Link
2: Peter Gibson (Con - Darlington) of energy and staffing. - Speech Link
3: Sarah Owen (Lab - Luton North) In the past year alone, Keech’s energy costs have increased by a quarter of a million pounds. - Speech Link
4: Patrick Grady (SNP - Glasgow North) Energy costs remain stubbornly high, but the Government are bringing many of their energy support schemes - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Impact of Environmental Regulations on Development (Built Environment Committee Report) - Fri 19 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lord Berkeley (Lab - Life peer) start thinking about it: you need agricultural land for food production; you need solar panels for energy - Speech Link
2: Lord Mawson (XB - Life peer) This led to delay, transaction costs, inconsistent decision-making and incoherence in the administration - Speech Link
3: Baroness Eaton (Con - Life peer) It suggested that the Government should have a review of costs so that their policies better balanced - Speech Link
4: Earl of Lytton (XB - Excepted Hereditary) Communications, energy supply and distribution, waste and critical social infrastructure sit alongside - Speech Link