Warm Homes Plan

Baggy Shanker Excerpts
Wednesday 21st January 2026

(1 day, 9 hours ago)

Commons Chamber
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Ed Miliband Portrait Ed Miliband
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My hon. Friend speaks with typical eloquence on this issue, which came up at the mayors meeting on Monday, when we discussed how we will ensure that the FE sector in particular is geared up to train people for these opportunities. We will work on this with Skills England and mayors, and Ministers will be taking it forward.

Baggy Shanker Portrait Baggy Shanker (Derby South) (Lab/Co-op)
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The Secretary of State will recall a visit to Derby where he officially opened Vaillant’s heat source cylinder facility. Will he outline what today’s announcement will mean for such facilities and how it will create more clean energy jobs in Derby and across the UK?

Ed Miliband Portrait Ed Miliband
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I very much enjoyed the visit to Vaillant and was incredibly impressed by what it is doing. Programmes such as the heat pump investment accelerator are designed to help companies such as Vaillant capitalise on this growing market.