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Written Question
Members: Correspondence
Thursday 2nd February 2023

Asked by: John Penrose (Conservative - Weston-super-Mare)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when he plans to reply to the hon. Member for Weston-Super-Mare's letters of 18 November and 20 December 2022 on behalf of his constituent, Sara Littlewood, regarding Royal Mail.

Answered by Kevin Hollinrake - Shadow Minister without Portfolio

I wrote to the hon. Member on 26 January regarding Royal Mail.

Written Question
Members: Correspondence
Friday 20th January 2023

Asked by: John Penrose (Conservative - Weston-super-Mare)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy when he plans to reply to the letters of 10 November and14 December 2022 from the hon. Member for Weston-Super-Mare on of behalf his constituent, Mr Martin Hodgson.

Answered by Kevin Hollinrake - Shadow Minister without Portfolio

My hon Friend, the Minister for Energy and Climate (Graham Stuart), wrote to my hon Friend on 13 January about the Energy Bills Support Scheme.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 29 Nov 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"13. If he will publish a White Paper on the long-term structure of the UK energy sector after the energy price guarantee ends. ..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 29 Nov 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"Does the Minister agree that while subsidies are necessary short-term sticking plasters, investors will not commit the multi-billion pound investments that the energy sector needs to upgrade and modernise energy storage, generation and transmission unless the long-term rules are clear? Will he therefore update the Energy Bill to lay out …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 15 Nov 2022
Britain’s Industrial Future

"The shadow Minister mentioned green steel. Do the Labour party’s plans include anything to do with a carbon border adjustment mechanism, which would, not just for steel, but all heavy energy using industries, level the playing field between British energy users, particularly manufacturing industries, and their cheaper competitors elsewhere in …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 15 Nov 2022
Britain’s Industrial Future

"I want to ask the Minister the same question that I asked the hon. Member for Sefton Central (Bill Esterson) about a potential solution to the problems of high electricity costs faced by energy-intensive industries such as steel, which we have been hearing about from Opposition Members. Would a carbon …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 17 Oct 2022
Energy Prices Bill

"I have yet to hear a question to which, in the view of the hon. Member for Kilmarnock and Loudoun (Alan Brown), the answer is not more independence for Scotland.

I rise partly to support this very necessary—albeit nose-bleedingly expensive—measure, which is essential to making sure that people can afford …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 05 Jul 2022
Energy Security Strategy

"The hon. Gentleman is to be congratulated on getting this debate organised. My constituency of Weston-super-Mare fronts on to the Bristol channel, which is the largest source of potential tidal power. He is right, of course, about the up-front costs being significant and the lifetime costs being lower. However, even …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 05 Jul 2022
Energy Security Strategy

"Thank you, Mr Davies. I congratulate the hon. Member for Birkenhead (Mick Whitley) on bringing this debate before us today.

I support a great deal of what is in the energy security strategy. The measures to diversify our electricity supply are welcome, necessary and absolutely essential, particularly with what is …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 19 Apr 2022
Energy Security Strategy

"I congratulate the Secretary of State on this excellent document. May I press him on the review of energy market arrangements and the long-term fundamental reform of the underlying market? Will he reassure me, and others on this side of the House—at the very least—that that will be done in …..."
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