Energy Network Charges
Debate between Martin Docherty-Hughes and Anne MainWestminster Hall is an alternative Chamber for MPs to hold debates, named after the adjoining Westminster Hall.
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Martin Docherty-Hughes (West Dunbartonshire) (SNP)
Does my hon. Friend agree that the United Kingdom Government’s policy is strangely based on a horizontal line drawn through London? The Indian Queens power station in Cornwall has been subsidised to the tune of £5.80 per unit of electricity generating capacity, while until its closure this March Scotland’s Longannet power station charged £17.50 per unit of electricity generating capacity. That is a £23.95 difference per unit of electricity capacity—
Mrs Anne Main (in the Chair)
Order. May I ask that interventions are brief? There is plenty of opportunity for Members to speak if they wish. The intervention is becoming a speech.
Martin Docherty-Hughes
I was just about to bring my intervention to a very firm conclusion, Mrs Main. Does my hon. Friend agree that the price discrimination is about not just consumers, but Scotland’s utilities as well?