Clean Energy: Private Sector Investment - 24th March 2026

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Clean Energy: Private Sector Investment.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2026-03-24/debates/BA5842B0-A601-4451-96C4-C91B8634A294/CleanEnergyPrivateSectorInvestment

11:30 Chris McDonald (Labour)

My hon. Friend is right that the allocation round was incredibly successful. Of course, the Conservatives wanted to cancel it, given their opposition to clean industry jobs across the UK. In the north-east, where my hon. Friend is from, we are forecasting an increase of 20,000 jobs. I know that the Smulders yard in her constituency will seek to benefit from that because, as the Chancellor of the Exchequer said, it matters to this Government where things are made. We want those supply chain jobs here in the UK—jobs the Reform party would take away from constituents like hers and mine, with its anti-net zero ideology.

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