Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Cat Smith and Torsten Bell

Tuesday 4th March 2025 Commons Chamber

[Torsten Bell]

I have spent far too much of my life talking to the now Energy Secretary, but my hon. Friend is right to highlight the potential of green energy supply chains in her constituency and across the north-east. This is a Government committed to securing economic gains alongside energy security from the energy transition —in stark contrast to the previous Government, who thought the net zero transition was something on which to create dividing lines, not jobs.

[Cat Smith (Lancaster and Wyre) (Lab)]

8. What steps she has taken with Cabinet colleagues to increase the supply of affordable housing.