Mansion House Accord - 13th May 2025

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Mansion House Accord.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2025-05-13/debates/5F9F4EF1-1409-403C-ACAA-D8F94EC039CC/MansionHouseAccord

11:49 Torsten Bell (Labour)

I have benefited from conversations with my hon. Friend about this topic, given his previous experience. He is completely right to set out that one of the large reasons—although not the only one—why we need to move to being a higher investment country is that our energy infrastructure has to be upgraded, and fast, if we are going to give this country the energy security it needs. He mentioned solar. This Government signed off in a matter of days and weeks a string of solar farms that needed to be invested in and that had been sitting on Ministers’ desks for year after year. More broadly, when the Leader of the Opposition stands up and says, “We don’t want to see this progress on net zero,” what she is really doing is putting up a sign across Britain saying, “Closed for business.”

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