Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Michael Shanks and Mark Sewards

Tuesday 24th March 2026 Commons Chamber

[Michael Shanks]

We do work very well together, actually, contrary to what it might appear from the hon. Member’s contribution. He suggests, quite wrongly—twice now—that Scotland is generating all this electricity by itself. Of course, those projects are funded by bill payers across the UK investing in that infrastructure. His plan seems to be to take a third off energy bills with independence, with absolutely no credibility whatsoever.

[Mark Sewards (Leeds South West and Morley) (Lab)]

T9. Small firms are being hounded by unregulated third-party energy brokers. I welcome the Department’s commitment to appoint Ofgem as the statutory regulator for third-party intermediaries. When will the Minister introduce that legislation, and how will the Department work with Ofgem to end cold calling and misrepresentation in the non-domestic market?