Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Charles Hendry and Bridget Phillipson

Thursday 16th December 2010 Commons Chamber

[Charles Hendry]

I do indeed congratulate National Grid on undertaking a public consultation on whether the cost of undergrounding is acceptable to the public. I also welcome the research being carried out by the Institution of Engineering and Technology, because people in areas affected by new pylons need to be absolutely convinced of the relative pricing of overgrounding and undergrounding.

[Bridget Phillipson (Houghton and Sunderland South) (Lab)]

T6. My constituents have faced an incredibly difficult winter, and they want to know what action the Government will take now, not in the future, to make energy companies bring down their prices.