Rural Communities - 9th January 2014

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Rural Communities.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2014-01-09/debates/14010943000001/RuralCommunities

12:10 Albert Owen

I want to concentrate on an issue that the hon. Lady and her Committee have not addressed on this occasion: energy. I also want to discuss tourism, farming and food and infrastructure, but energy is rightly a dominant issue for debate. As a member of the Energy and Climate Change Committee, I have raised many of these issues for some time.

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14:42 Dan Rogerson

Several hon. Members talked about domestic fuel and the people in communities in rural areas who are off the gas grid. We are working with the Department of Energy and Climate Change to support the promotion of buying groups to bring down costs for gas and oil. On winter fuel payments, as part of the ministerial round table on heating oil and liquid petroleum gas, we are working with DECC and the Department for Work and Pensions to look into bringing payments forward. A number of hon. Members raised that issue.

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