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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 29 Oct 2019
Leaving the EU: Workers’ Rights

"Does the Secretary of State agree that if the Prime Minister’s deal, negotiated with the European Union, is ratified by this House, on leaving the EU the UK will have better and stronger workers’ rights than the bare bones provided by the EU?..."
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Written Question
Electricity
Tuesday 23rd July 2019

Asked by: Bim Afolami (Conservative - Hitchin and Harpenden)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate his Department has made of the (a) level of demand for electricity and (b) electricity generation capacity there will be in the UK in the next five years.

Answered by Chris Skidmore

As part of the annual Capacity Market process National Grid: Electricity System Operator (NG:ESO) produce an Electricity Capacity Report (ECR), which makes a 5-year ahead assessment of peak demand for electricity.

This is publicly available information and can be found here: https://www.emrdeliverybody.com/Capacity%20Markets%20Document%20Library/Electricity%20Capacity%20Report%202019.pdf.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 10 Jul 2019
Climate Change, the Environment and Global Development

"He’s just annoyed that he wasn’t invited...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 11 Jun 2019
Oral Answers to Questions

"The Secretary of State knows that Rothamsted Research in Harpenden does amazing work in agricultural science. Many people at Rothamsted have expressed to me their concern about the nature and the amount of science funding after we leave the European Union. Will the Secretary of State give me an update …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 25 Jun 2018
Energy Policy

"As a member of the Public Accounts Committee, I can say that value for money is very important to the House and should always be, and I accept the Secretary of State’s assessment in this regard. However, will he confirm to and reassure the House that the Government are not …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 24 Apr 2018
GKN

"I draw the House’s attention to the fact that, in the dark days before I came to this House, I spent several years in the City advising on mergers and acquisitions, and Melrose was one of the companies that I advised several times. Bearing that in mind, while there is …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 13 Mar 2018
Domestic Gas and Electricity (Tariff Cap) Bill (First sitting)

"Q I have a question about what you were saying about the fact you have one tariff. Why do lots of your competitors—your older, more established competitors—have this completely mind-boggling myriad of tariffs? Can you explain why, if you can manage to price up one tariff, they cannot do …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 13 Mar 2018
Domestic Gas and Electricity (Tariff Cap) Bill (First sitting)

"Q Like a hedging cost, or a currency hedge?

Hayden Wood: Like a hedging cost—exactly. But the irony with the cost of hedging, which you need to put on to a fixed tariff, is that very often those fixed tariffs are cheaper than the variable tariffs. That does not …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 13 Mar 2018
Domestic Gas and Electricity (Tariff Cap) Bill (First sitting)

"Q Assuming that the legislation passes unamended, how do you intend to set this cap?

Dermot Nolan: We have already commenced the process in the sense that last Thursday, after Second Reading, we put out an open letter specifying our processes over the next few months. Yesterday we released …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 13 Mar 2018
Domestic Gas and Electricity (Tariff Cap) Bill (First sitting)

"Q Is Northern Ireland and how a cap works there your starting point? Is that something that informs you, or is there something about that to make you think that we need to do it in a different way this time?

Dermot Nolan: It certainly informs us, as indeed …..."
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