Budget Resolutions

Debate between Iqbal Mohamed and Katie Lam

Monday 1st December 2025 Commons Chamber

[Iqbal Mohamed (Dewsbury and Batley) (Ind)]

Does the hon. Lady agree that it is the linking of electricity prices and of renewable energy prices to gas that is creating these high energy prices, and that de-linking them would immediately cut prices for the consumer?

[Katie Lam]

That is not the immediate problem. The energy prices currently being baked in by the prices the Government are agreeing at the moment will see energy prices sky high for years and years regardless of what happens to the price of gas.

The Conservatives’ cheap energy plan will save households hundreds of pounds and offers a much-needed lifeline to British industry. I very much hope that the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero will adopt at least some of its measures.