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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 07 Sep 2016
Paris Agreement on Climate Change

"I was referring to exporting the idea. In the past—with wind turbines, for example—we have lost the initiative in manufacturing and find ourselves importing. We do not want to do that. We want to be world leaders—we want to make the components, export them and build potential markets for our …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 07 Sep 2016
Paris Agreement on Climate Change

"That sounds like a very exciting project indeed. The whole point is not to think about the cost of an initial project, but the huge impact of rolling it out: reducing emissions, finding good markets for our components industries and ensuring we are up there as a world-first. There would …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 07 Sep 2016
Paris Agreement on Climate Change

"Absolutely—indeed it would.

Sadly, the Government’s record has not been very good to date. The green deal was a complete fiasco. It proved to be a very unattractive deal, as the figures show, with only 2.7% of those who had had the assessment done actually taking out the investment in …..."

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Written Question
Tidal Power: Swansea Bay
Monday 25th April 2016

Asked by: Nia Griffith (Labour - Llanelli)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, when she expects the Government's review of the case for the Swansea Bay tidal lagoon to be completed.

Answered by Andrea Leadsom

The timeframe depends on a number of factors, many of which would be outside the control of the Department. Talks between Government and the developer are on-going and will be fed into the independent review of tidal lagoons for consideration. The independent review will be completed as soon as possible.