Energy Bills - 17th October 2013

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

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2013-10-17/debates/13101753000012/EnergyBills

Stephen Mosley (City of Chester) (Con)

The Opposition want to have their cake and eat it. They say they want to decarbonise the energy market, yet they also say they do not want people to pay for it. Can my right hon. Friend bring some reality and honesty to the argument and tell us how we decarbonise the economy while at the same time trying to keep costs to consumers to a minimum?

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Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat)

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. The Energy Bill and electricity market reform do just that. He may be interested to know that we have today asked the Leader of the Opposition 10 questions about Labour’s policy. If we look at it, we not only find that it is a con that will reduce competition and hurt the small suppliers, but that it will hurt investment, too, which is needed to keep energy security and to decarbonise. Labour’s policy is economically illiterate.

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