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Oral Answers to Questions

Anna McMorrin Excerpts
Wednesday 24th May 2023

(1 year, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Anna McMorrin Portrait Anna McMorrin (Cardiff North) (Lab)
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Q4.   While the Prime Minister upgrades his local energy grid to heat his 40-foot swimming pool and hands oil and gas companies—the likes of BP and Shell—£11.4 billion in tax breaks, he scraps the energy price guarantee scheme, plunging record numbers of people into poverty. Is it just a coincidence that those same energy giants funded the Prime Minister’s leadership campaign, or is he simply out of touch?

Rishi Sunak Portrait The Prime Minister
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What we are doing is taxing the windfall profits of energy companies and using that money to help pay around half of a typical household’s energy bill. That support is worth £1,500—it was extended in the Budget by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor—and we all look forward to energy bills coming down, which hopefully will happen very soon.