Electricity Market Reform

Debate between Robert Buckland and Chris Huhne

Thursday 16th December 2010 Commons Chamber

[Chris Huhne]

We are already in very close contact with the suppliers, and we anticipate that deliveries will be adequate to ensure that there are supplies wherever they are needed before Christmas.

[Mr Robert Buckland (South Swindon) (Con)]

Manufacturers in and around my constituency and elsewhere are doing what they can on a small scale to reduce electricity consumption by taking energy efficiency measures, but what plans do the Government have to encourage that on a large scale as a way of dealing with increased demand in the years ahead?

[Chris Huhne]

I refer my hon. Friend to our extensive answers on the green deal scheme in Energy and Climate Change oral questions earlier. It will be an ambitious, comprehensive and enormous scheme to ensure that we completely refit our housing stock.