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Debate between Edward Argar and Nick Hurd
Tuesday 8th November 2016

(8 years ago)

Commons Chamber
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Edward Argar Portrait Edward Argar (Charnwood) (Con)
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15. What steps his Department is taking to ensure the increased use of clean and reliable energy sources.

Nick Hurd Portrait The Minister for Climate Change and Industry (Mr Nick Hurd)
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The Government are committed to upgrading our energy infrastructure to make sure it is reliable, affordable and increasingly clean. The phasing out of coal and our commitment to new nuclear and new renewables through the next round of contract for difference auctions are key milestones in the energy transition that is under way.

Edward Argar Portrait Edward Argar
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Tidal power represents one of the cleanest and most reliable types of green renewable energy. I am sorry to bring the Minister back to this topic, but may I again press him, due process notwithstanding, to make his decision on the future of the Swansea Bay tidal lagoon project as swiftly as possible?

Nick Hurd Portrait Mr Hurd
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I congratulate my hon. Friend on his persistence in pressing this point. I have nothing to add to the bureaucratic prose that the Under-Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, my hon. Friend the Member for Hereford and South Herefordshire (Jesse Norman), has placed so elegantly on the record. We will look at the matter seriously.