UK-EU Summit - 20th May 2025

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate UK-EU Summit.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2025-05-20/debates/AA6937A3-D577-4B0D-AB87-C2D230A0EA49/UKEUSummit

12:39 The Prime Minister (Keir Starmer)

The partnership also increases co-operation on emissions trading, saving UK businesses from having to pay up to £800 million in EU carbon taxes—once again, backing British businesses. The deal will drive down bills with increased co-operation on energy, because the agreement negotiated by the Conservative party left us with a more expensive way of working with our neighbours—a needless rupture, despite our grids being connected by undersea cables. This partnership brings those systems together again, benefiting British bill payers and boosting clean British power in the North sea.

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Matthew Patrick (Labour)

The energy industry is central to our mission for growth, but it is also important to our tackling of the generational challenge that is climate change. This is a sentiment felt in my constituency, which is proud to be a regional hub of carbon capture and hydrogen storage. Will the Prime Minister explain how the deal supports the energy industry so that we can pursue the growth, bring down energy bills and tackle climate change?

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