Domestic Gas and Electricity (Tariff Cap) Bill (First sitting) - 13th March 2018

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Domestic Gas and Electricity (Tariff Cap) Bill (First sitting).

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2018-03-13/debates/B74F2D8C-34F4-4159-B6D5-99308F983172/DomesticGasandElectricityTariffCapBillFirstsitting

09:51 Bambos Charalambous (Labour)

Juliet Davenport: In our view, green gas is an area that is developing in the UK. At the moment, we have a limited amount of green gas. I think the heat targets under the Climate Change Act 2008 are quite significant, and we as a country are behind those targets. We are doing relatively well on electricity, but not so well on gas. My personal view is that we need to try to seed that market. People want to choose.

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09:59 James Heappey (Wells) (Con)

Q I wonder whether the panel shares my concern that this also allows green tariffs to be seen as a premium product. To achieve our decarbonisation goals, what we actually want is for green tariffs to be seen as the norm. Therefore, to allow them to be sold as a sort of premium rather defeats that long-term aim.

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