Energy Spending Priorities: Investors and Consumers Debate

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Energy Spending Priorities: Investors and Consumers

Natascha Engel Excerpts
Monday 4th July 2016

(7 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Natascha Engel Portrait Madam Deputy Speaker (Natascha Engel)
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Order. Six Members still wish to speak and we also have two Front-Bench winding-up speeches to come. We must finish by 10 o’clock and the hon. Lady has been speaking for 20 minutes now. If she comes to a conclusion and other Members stick to speaking for 10 minutes, we will get everybody in.

Antoinette Sandbach Portrait Antoinette Sandbach
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You will be glad to know, Madam Deputy Speaker, that home efficiency is my final point.

I urge the Government to have that cross-departmental working to deliver on home efficiency targets. That is where we will make some wins on climate change. We make wins from the comfort of the people who have had those measures installed. That instils positivity around green changes and the levy control framework because they feel they are getting what they pay for. There is much in the report that I urge the Secretary of State to adopt and look at, because the delivery on the ground matters to people who are paying for it through their bills.

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Graham Stuart Portrait Graham Stuart
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On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Just before the debate finishes, the shadow Secretary of State said that investment in Hull by Siemens was “on hold”—I think those were the words—but investment there most definitely is not. He might want to make that clear, unless I misheard what he said. That investment is very important in our local area and that investment is continuing.

Natascha Engel Portrait Madam Deputy Speaker (Natascha Engel)
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That is more of an intervention than a point of order and the Secretary of State may want to address it.

Amber Rudd Portrait Amber Rudd
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I am grateful for the opportunity to correct any misunderstanding that the hon. Member for Brent North may have put out there. We have been told very clearly by Siemens that the investment in Hull, and the 1,000 or so jobs that go with it, is absolutely secure.