Oral Answers to Questions

Emma Foody Excerpts

Tuesday 15th July 2025 Commons Chamber

[Ed Miliband]

Here is the difference between them and us. They would keep us hooked on fossil fuels for time immemorial. They have learned not a single lesson from the disaster they inflicted on this country: family finances ruined; business finances ruined; public finances ruined. A year on, there is not a word of apology.

[Emma Foody (Cramlington and Killingworth) (Lab/Co-op)]

3. What estimate he has made of the number of additional jobs that have been created in clean power industries in the north-east since July 2024.

[Noah Law (St Austell and Newquay) (Lab)]

4. What estimate he has made of the number of additional jobs that have been created in clean power industries since July 2024.

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[The Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero (Ed Miliband)]

Since coming to office, the Government have shown how clean power can create jobs across our country, with thousands of jobs in nuclear, through our investments in Sizewell C and small modular reactors; in carbon capture and storage; in offshore wind; and in home heating through our warm homes plan. This is what it means to deliver reindustrialisation through our clean energy sprint.

[Emma Foody]

I thank the Secretary of State for that answer. The north-east is uniquely placed to be the home of the green energy revolution, with the expansion of the Energy Academy in north Tyneside providing a skills pipeline. How will the clean energy industries sector plan help to provide long-term certainty for investment and deliver good quality jobs for communities across my Cramlington and Killingworth constituency and the north-east?

[Ed Miliband]

I see the north-east as an absolute powerhouse for the clean energy jobs we want to create. Early on in this Government, we did something which again had been talked about for years by the Conservative party in delivering the east coast carbon capture, usage and storage cluster, which is projected to create thousands of jobs, including benefits for my hon. Friend’s constituency. It is not just the direct jobs that will be created, but jobs in the supply chain. We have an opportunity—the north-east will be at the heart of this—to lead in the clean energy jobs of the future.