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Tuesday 21st May 2024

(3 weeks, 4 days ago)

Commons Chamber
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Amanda Solloway Portrait Amanda Solloway
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We are ensuring that energy businesses are able to survive, and not just through the price caps. This is also a matter for Ofgem.

Chris Clarkson Portrait Chris Clarkson (Heywood and Middleton) (Con)
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My constituency is home to Scout Moor, one of the largest onshore wind farms in Europe, but the north-west also has amazing potential for offshore wind; an example is the Morgan and Morecambe development off the coast of Lancashire. Such projects require huge amounts of infrastructure to be realised. Notwithstanding the reassurances that my right hon. Friend has already given, will she ensure that community consent is part of any infrastructure projects of this kind?