Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between John Hayes and Amber Rudd

Thursday 31st January 2013 Commons Chamber

[Amber Rudd (Hastings and Rye) (Con)]

T4. The Energy Minister has appeared before the Energy Bill Committee, waxing lyrical about the important reforms the Government are introducing to ensure that we get the energy investment we need in the future. What steps is he taking to ensure that those measures will see appropriate diversity of generating technologies?

[The Minister of State, Department of Energy and Climate Change (Mr John Hayes)]

Diversity matters because it provides resilience and sustainability. It is absolutely right that, through the mechanisms we put in place and the framework of certainty I described earlier, we guarantee an energy mix that is fit for purpose and fit for the future.