Energy Security - 8th October 2024

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Energy Security.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2024-10-08/debates/7E17E1EA-2B7E-4DC3-A577-DEDB5C643714/EnergySecurity

11:51 Michael Shanks (Labour)

I completely agree. The only way to permanently protect hard-working families and businesses from the high energy bills from which many are still suffering is to get ourselves off our reliance on the volatile fossil fuel markets. That is why we are rolling out at pace and at scale the clean power necessary to do so, which not only gives us energy security but creates good jobs, brings down bills and helps us to tackle the climate crisis.

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Bernard Jenkin (Conservative)

Could I invite the Minister to meet a cross-party group of MPs from the east of England to discuss how the review conducted by the electricity system operator can contribute to energy security and in particular to look at how undergrounding high voltage direct current cables could be cheaper in the long term than pylons and more efficient for achieving net zero? Will he agree at least to have a meeting with us on that basis?

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