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Graham P Jones Excerpts
Tuesday 12th December 2017

(6 years, 4 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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We have some very shy Government Back-Bench Members at this point, so I call Graham Jones.

Graham P Jones Portrait Graham P. Jones (Hyndburn) (Lab)
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The Labour manifesto in the summer committed to 60% of our heat and power being produced from zero-carbon or renewable energies. When will the Government match that ambition from the Opposition?

Lord Johnson of Marylebone Portrait Joseph Johnson
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Our clean growth strategy is rightly ambitious, and the Climate Change Act allows us to be flexible in our means of achieving the goals that we have set out. As I have just said, we are ahead of our targets on the second and third carbon budgets.