Energy Security Strategy Debate

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Stephen Flynn

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Easter Recess: Government Update

Energy Security Strategy

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Points of Order
Tuesday 19th April 2022

(2 years ago)

Commons Chamber
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Kwasi Kwarteng Portrait Kwasi Kwarteng
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I should be very happy to go with my hon. Friend to see the nuclear reactors. The future is decarbonised baseload power. That is what we need, and it is something with which my hon. Friend and I are 100% aligned.

Stephen Flynn Portrait Stephen Flynn (Aberdeen South) (SNP)
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The Secretary of State has said that his energy strategy would

“drive down bills for British people”.

By how much?

Kwasi Kwarteng Portrait Kwasi Kwarteng
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That obviously refers, relatively, to whatever the wholesale price of gas will be. I am not a gas trader, and nor is the hon. Gentleman. He has no idea what the wholesale gas price will be either. The strategy will have a tendency to lower prices.

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