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James Heappey Excerpts
Tuesday 12th December 2017

(6 years, 4 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lord Harrington of Watford Portrait Richard Harrington
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My hon. Friend is absolutely right, and that is very much an important part of the industrial strategy.

James Heappey Portrait James Heappey (Wells) (Con)
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Does my hon. Friend agree that the key is policy certainty, to enable our growing green finance industries to come forward to finance these initiatives themselves, so that the initiatives do not need to rely on Government subsidy?

Lord Harrington of Watford Portrait Richard Harrington
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I agree totally with my hon. Friend. I am very impressed by the way in which the finance industry generally is adapting to the clean projects ahead of us.