Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Ed Miliband and Sarah Gibson

Tuesday 24th March 2026 Commons Chamber

[Ed Miliband]

Before the hon. Gentleman self-combusts, let me tell him that, as a result of the court decision, those projects are proceeding at risk. I will tell him the way we will make a decision. I am not going to comment on a live planning issue, but I will say in general that we will make a decision that is legally watertight. The last Government made a series of decisions that were found—[Interruption.] Conservative Members say “No, no”, but they do not care about the rule of law. We saw that when they said that we should rush headlong into a war with no regard for the impacts on our constituents.

[Sarah Gibson (Chippenham) (LD)]

10. What recent progress he has made on improving connections to the electricity grid.