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Written Question
Fuel Oil: Prices
Friday 22nd July 2022

Asked by: Jo Churchill (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to support rural homes that are not on mains gas to manage the increasing cost of domestic heating oil.

Answered by Greg Hands

I refer my hon. Friend to the answer given by my noble Friend the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State to the noble Lord Allen of Kensington on 5 July 2022 to Question HL1128.

Written Question
National Grid: East of England
Friday 22nd July 2022

Asked by: Jo Churchill (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what information his Department holds on what assessment National Grid has made of the impact of its proposed East Anglia GREEN project on farmers and rural communities.

Answered by Greg Hands

The Government does not hold this information, but as part of the planning process for new infrastructure National Grid Electricity Transmission will identify preferred options considering a range of factors, including impacts on land and local communities. This will need to be balanced against other considerations, such as cost and environmental impacts. National Grid Electricity Transmission are required to undertake an Environmental Impact Assessment for projects such as East Anglia GREEN, and this includes an assessment of community impacts.

Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 19 Jul 2022
New Pylons: East Anglia

"It is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Broadland (Jerome Mayhew). I extend my sympathies to my hon. Friend the Member for Harwich and North Essex (Sir Bernard Jenkin), whose parents enjoyed their later years in my lovely constituency. The whole town extends its love to …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 19 Jul 2022
New Pylons: East Anglia

"My hon. Friend is making a very powerful case. If I understand him correctly, he said that in the consultation the value and worth of communities and environment was a strong rationale, but we are being told that we have to be bound by the rationale of the NPS, which …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 19 Jul 2022
New Pylons: East Anglia

"The nub of it is that we have not been given these options. The Minister spoke about environmental impact and the other considerations that were taken into account, but as the MP trying to help inform my constituents, I certainly have never seen any of that information or data; I …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 12 Jul 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"The east has offshore wind and nuclear to give the nation. London wants its power. Why should Bury St Edmunds, and the broader Suffolk, Norfolk and Essex, have 50-metre pylons tearing across its countryside? Up north, we have routed it under the sea. We in the east want a fair …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 12 Dec 2017
Oral Answers to Questions

"Productivity in the construction industry is a key requirement of building houses. How will the Secretary of State ensure quality in on and offsite builds for the £1.7 billion investment in construction in the industrial strategy?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 20 Oct 2017
Parental Bereavement (Leave and Pay) Bill

"Along with answering the question of who is a parent, will my hon. Friend please tell me whether the Bill will address the issue of who is an employee, in view of the Taylor report? Those who work on zero-hours contracts, those who are self-employed and others will need that …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 16 Oct 2017
Nuclear Safeguards Bill

"I thank my hon. Friend for largely making my point for me. He knows my deep interest in this area, and I draw to his attention the fact that not only has the Secretary of State reiterated those points today but that the Minister for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 16 Oct 2017
Nuclear Safeguards Bill

"It is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Fylde (Mark Menzies). I join in this debate not as a Member who has a particularly close partnership with the nuclear industry, nor as someone with specific knowledge of Euratom. My hon. Friend the Member for North West …..."
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