Energy Bills

Andrew Jones Excerpts

Monday 2nd December 2013 Commons Chamber

[Mr Davey]

They will get this benefit.

[Andrew Jones (Harrogate and Knaresborough) (Con)]

Does my right hon. Friend not think that problems with the energy market, such as those relating to long-term generating capacity, built up over many years but had been ignored, including when the Leader of the Opposition was Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change?

[Mr Davey]

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. One of the reasons why we have to increase investment so much over a relatively short time, which comes at a price, is the failure of the last Government to invest in energy infrastructure. People warned them, and warned the former Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, currently the Leader of the Opposition, to do something; he failed.