Written Question
Friday 2nd May 2025
Asked by:
Claire Coutinho (Conservative - East Surrey)
Question
to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an estimate of the potential impact of changes in the cost of (a) electricity, (b) goods and (c) services arising from (i) direct and (ii) indirect support to renewable energy on VAT receipts in each year since 2002.
Answered by James Murray
- Chief Secretary to the Treasury
The Government is committed to tackling climate change. The Climate Change Act (2008) made the UK the first country to introduce a legally binding, long-term emissions reduction target. Since then, the UK has halved its emissions, having cut them by around 53% between 1990 and 2023.
The Government has announced a national mission to make Britain a clean energy superpower and accelerate our journey to net zero.
As the Government's official independent forecaster, it is for the OBR to consider and report on the fiscal and economic impacts of Government policy decisions made by the Government.
Written Question
Wednesday 4th September 2024
Asked by:
Claire Coutinho (Conservative - East Surrey)
Question
to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of ending the investment allowance within the Energy Profits Levy on investment in the (a) economy and (b) energy transition.
Answered by James Murray
- Chief Secretary to the Treasury
In July, the Government announced its intention to remove the Energy Profits Levy’s (EPL) 29% main investment allowance. Further details of final policy and impacts will be announced at Budget.
A key outcome of the government’s clean energy mission will be greater energy security and independence. The government will achieve a phased and responsible transition by taking a proportionate approach that ensures the oil and gas sector continues to play a role whilst contributing more towards our clean energy transition.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 30 Nov 2021
Conduct of the Right Hon. Member for Uxbridge and South Ruislip
"At a time when we are dealing with the aftermath of an unexpected global pandemic, a booster vaccine programme to deliver and an economy to keep firmly in recovery, I find it astounding that the SNP has used its parliamentary time today not to further the interests of the Scottish …..."Claire Coutinho - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 30 Nov 2021
Conduct of the Right Hon. Member for Uxbridge and South Ruislip
"Yet instead of focusing on those issues or the other important issues on which we could be focusing for the Scottish people, again SNP Members are simply trying to drive us further apart from one another...."Claire Coutinho - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 30 Nov 2021
Conduct of the Right Hon. Member for Uxbridge and South Ruislip
"I thank my hon. Friend for making that point.
I think that SNP Members will agree that during the pandemic we have seen the strength that our family of nations, working together, can achieve, including: the procurement of vaccines through Kate Bingham’s much lauded work with the vaccine taskforce; the …..."Claire Coutinho - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 30 Nov 2021
Conduct of the Right Hon. Member for Uxbridge and South Ruislip
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 22 Oct 2020
Covid-19: Disparate Impact
"Our BAME communities face a medical risk not only from covid but from the fallout from other health conditions. Does my hon. Friend agree that we should encourage the BAME community to access the treatments that are available to them, such as cancer treatment, because those are important for their …..."Claire Coutinho - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 20 Oct 2020
Black History Month
"I thank the hon. Members who have secured this important debate at a time when the discussion of British history and its connection to race has been more prominent than I can remember in my lifetime.
History is itself imperfect because it belongs to those who hold the pen. We …..."Claire Coutinho - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 15 Jul 2020
Covid-19: Future UK-EU Relationship
"I am somewhat bemused by the motion today because on the very first page of the document to which it refers the Scottish Government say:
“This transition period is due to finish on December 31, but it can be extended… as long as that is agreed by the end of …..."Claire Coutinho - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 11 Feb 2020
Oral Answers to Questions
"Thanks to heavy usage by HGVs, Surrey is sometimes called the pothole capital of England. What steps is the Department taking to invest in tackling potholes nationally, which I am very keen to see in East Surrey?..."Claire Coutinho - View Speech
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