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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 19 Oct 2022
Ban on Fracking for Shale Gas Bill

"Today’s debate is less about fracking and more about the Labour party’s next social media campaign. If the Opposition had wanted to show the true strength of the House’s opinion on fracking, they could have tabled a normal motion today, calling for the moratorium to be reintroduced at a later …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 19 Oct 2022
Ban on Fracking for Shale Gas Bill

"I really need to press the Minister on this question of a confidence vote. Many of us have been told today by our Whips that if we vote for, or abstain from voting against, this motion, we will lose the Whip. Will he please confirm whether that is the case?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 22 Sep 2022
Shale Gas Extraction

"I would like to press my right hon. Friend further on how community support will be defined and measured, because I have many concerned constituents who want to know that they will have a genuine route to rejecting fracking applications that do not have local support, and I am still …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 12 Jul 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"7. What steps his Department is taking to help support the creation of new low-carbon technologies. ..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 12 Jul 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"I thank the Minister for her answer and welcome her to her place. May I bring to her attention the excellent bid from Uniper for carbon capture and storage technology to be built into its new energy from waste plant at Ratcliffe-on-Soar, which sits in the heart of the east …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 11 Jan 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"T8. Will my hon. Friend join me and my hon. Friend the Member for Loughborough (Jane Hunt) in backing Intelligent Energy’s bid for investment from the automotive transformation fund, which will bring a hydrogen fuel cell gigafactory and highly skilled green jobs to Rushcliffe and the wider east midlands? Will …..."
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Written Question
Fuel Cells: Manufacturing Industries
Monday 28th June 2021

Asked by: Ruth Edwards (Conservative - Rushcliffe)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans the Government has to support the development of hydrogen fuel cell gigafactories in the UK.

Answered by Anne-Marie Trevelyan

The UK has great strengths in electrochemical technologies, including hydrogen fuel cells. UK companies are already exporting fuel cells into global markets for use in transport as well as heat and power.

The UK fuel cell market is at an early stage of development and focus to date has been on supporting innovation and early deployment, mostly in transport, rather than mass production. The £23m Hydrogen for Transport Programme is funding the deployment of around 300 hydrogen vehicles and supporting infrastructure. The £2m FCEV Fleet Support Scheme is supporting public and private sector fleets to become early adopters of these vehicles. A total of four fuel cell innovation projects (total grant £2.2million) with UK industry have been funded through BEIS Energy Entrepreneurs Fund.

Investment in innovation, along with wider efforts to establish a domestic market for hydrogen and understand high value opportunities for UK technology deployment and exports will inform our future approach to UK manufacturing of hydrogen-related technologies including fuel cells.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 09 Mar 2021
Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation

"This virus has dealt our economy its worst blow in 300 years, but I am confident that we will rise phoenix-like from the ashes. I am confident because our support has already protected more than 11 million jobs. I am confident because our economy is now expected to recover to …..."
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Written Question
Energy Supply: Capital Investment and Job Creation
Thursday 12th November 2020

Asked by: Ruth Edwards (Conservative - Rushcliffe)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he plans to take to ensure that Ofgem's Final Determination for investment under RIIO-2 will (a) promote investment and (b) create jobs in the energy transmission sector in the years 2021-26.

Answered by Kwasi Kwarteng

Network regulation is a matter for Ofgem as the independent regulator.

Ofgem’s Draft Determinations published in July for consultation included upfront allowances of over £7.5bn for the electricity and gas transmission sectors alongside a further £10bn available across all sectors for net zero investment through the price control period of 2021-26. Ofgem are due to publish their Final Determinations for the transmission sectors in December.

Written Question
Hydrogen: Technology
Tuesday 20th October 2020

Asked by: Ruth Edwards (Conservative - Rushcliffe)

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 publish the Government's strategy on hydrogen technology.

Answered by Kwasi Kwarteng

The Government is committed to the development of hydrogen as a strategic decarbonised energy carrier for the UK. Development of a hydrogen strategy is well under way and we have committed to publishing a UK hydrogen strategy in early 2021.