Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between John Hayes and George Hollingbery

Thursday 1st November 2012 Commons Chamber

[Mr Hayes]

Nuclear power is a low-emission technology, and the hon. Lady should welcome it accordingly. She obviously regarded this week’s good news as bad news, but it is good news in terms of the supply chain—as my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has said—it is good news for the British people, and it is good news for our energy mix and our energy security. I will not be influenced by the preoccupations of bourgeois-left academics; I will be inspired by the will of the people.

[George Hollingbery (Meon Valley) (Con)]

5. What recent assessment he has made of the role of reduction in demand in ensuring the UK’s security of energy supply in the long term.