Point of Order

Lindsay Hoyle Excerpts

Thursday 17th May 2012 Commons Chamber

[Caroline Flint (Don Valley) (Lab)]

On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. Yesterday, in response to a question from my hon. Friend the Member for Ynys Môn (Albert Owen), the Energy Secretary said:

“Let me give the hon. Gentleman one exact policy, for which Labour never legislated: the warm home discount”.—[Official Report, 16 May 2012; Vol. 545, c. 561.]

He repeated the same point earlier this morning in Energy and Climate Change questions. The truth is that it was the Energy Act 2010, which was passed by the last Labour Government, that enabled the warm home discount scheme to be set up. Will you advise me on how the House can get such matters corrected on the record, to ensure that nobody is left ignorant of the true state of affairs?

[Mr Deputy Speaker (Mr Lindsay Hoyle)]

I can say that that is not a point of order for the Chair, but the right hon. Lady has corrected the record in the statement that she has just made.