Gas Prices and Energy Suppliers Debate
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Matt Western
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Gas Prices and Energy Suppliers
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Kwasi Kwarteng
I see the Chancellor on a regular basis, as my right hon. Friend knows, and I am delighted to inform him that those conversations tend to be confidential.
Matt Western (Warwick and Leamington) (Lab)
The UK suffers from higher costs both for consumers and for our businesses and industries. Why then, to follow the point of my hon. Friend the Member for Barnsley East (Stephanie Peacock), is the UK’s storage capacity just 2% of annual demand versus an average of 25% in Europe? Is that part of the reason why we do not have energy price resilience?