Warm Home Discount

Debate between Nusrat Ghani and Luke Murphy

Tuesday 25th February 2025 Commons Chamber

[Madam Deputy Speaker (Ms Nusrat Ghani)]

I call Luke Murphy, a member of the Energy Security and Net Zero Committee.

[Luke Murphy (Basingstoke) (Lab)]

Many of my constituents, like others across the country, will be concerned about the increase in their energy bills announced today. I therefore welcome the Government’s extension of the warm home discount, as well as the measures to tackle unsustainable debt and push the regulator to do more to support consumers.

I must say that the shadow Minister talks as if his Government left a legacy of low energy prices, when it was his Government who left an appalling legacy of high energy prices. I have stood in both this Chamber and Westminster Hall and heard shadow Ministers attack renewables and electric vehicles—do they not realise that they are attacking the very means of bringing down the cost of energy? Does the Minister agree that our clean energy mission and renewables is the fastest way to ensure we end our dependence on volatile fossil fuels, which also leaves us at the mercy of Vladimir Putin?