Gas Prices and Energy Suppliers Debate
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Alexander Stafford
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Gas Prices and Energy Suppliers
Alexander Stafford Excerpts(2 years, 7 months ago)
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Kwasi Kwarteng
What I do acknowledge is that there has been a quadrupling of the gas price, and that we have an energy price cap that will protect customers from such spikes. Schemes such as the warm home discount will also protect the most vulnerable customers. That is what I acknowledge.
Alexander Stafford (Rother Valley) (Con)
What assessment has my right hon. Friend made of this country’s structural dependency on gas, which was created by the last Labour Government’s sidelining of green technologies, such as nuclear and even hydrogen?
Kwasi Kwarteng
My hon. Friend is absolutely right. For example, the last Labour Government did absolutely nothing to drive nuclear power, which is a fundamental ingredient of security of energy supply.