Speeches by Young.

“Can you identify any particular parts of the process that caused the delays? I am also interested because prior to the decision, talking to people in the industry, there seemed to be a widespread assumption that you would probably win as the UK competitor. Why did it take so long?”

“Can I just ask you, what factors make a site ideal for AMR development? How do these differ, if at all, from the requirements for SMRs or large-scale nuclear?”

“Do you see there being a role for future competitions in the nuclear space?”

“Q6. Yate station is at the heart of the town’s industrial area and can be a gateway to the eastern end of the west innovation arc. Local rail users tell me they want it improved, businesses stress its importance for attracting a workforce, and in the wake of local manufacturing job losses, its redevelopment could be a …”

“I would like to talk about the SMR design competition: what went well? What lessons can be learned? I would like to start with you, Alastair. Other than you winning, obviously, what went well for you in the process, from your perspective? What lessons can we learn, especially from the withdrawals by EDF, NuScale and We…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Vaz. The extension of this statutory instrument is important to ensure that the Government will continue to be able to support households with energy costs. Given the volatility of fossil fuel prices and Trump’s reckless and illegal war with Iran, it is important that …”

“I would like to return to the issue of UK maritime services facilitating the export of Russian energy, which I raised in this Chamber three months ago. Does the Minister not see the irony that, at a time when we are all grappling with how we fund our own defence, the Government are still letting UK plc bankroll Putin’s…”

“Will my hon. Friend give way on that point?”

“18. What recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of bus services.”

“Those transport authorities that delayed tendering for post-July bus services because of the lack of Government criteria for using finding are now going out to tender, but market information suggests that costs are shooting up due to the war in the middle east. Will the Secretary of State meet me and local representati…”

“Just before I come on to my questions, can I clarify something, Elizabeth? Obviously, Alex was talking about accepting that, for the overall price of crude oil, whether we produce stuff domestically does not make any difference to the price; the issue is simply about the extra tax raised. You said that, when you are ta…”

“I mean making temporary changes, so, rather than waiting until you have decided how to make a permanent change, doing something before that on a temporary basis.”

“That was just for clarification, because there appeared to be a slight difference in what was being said. If I can move on to my actual questions, they are probably for you, Alan, at least to start with. Obviously, we know that during the 2022 energy crisis we saw generators make record profits, and we had suppliers co…”

“This crisis is coming really soon after the crisis caused by the Ukraine war. Does it show that marginal pricing is a poor deal for UK energy consumers, or would you go back to the principles behind it and say that there are still benefits?”

“You talked about oil there, but if we think about gas, we saw home energy suppliers, for example, going bust.”

“When we are looking at consumers and how they are then contributing to those massive upstream profits, is there anything that we can learn from what happened during the 2022 energy crisis that we could be applying to this one, so that consumers are not taking the hit? Equally, we do not need companies going out of busi…”

“You have already made reference to looking at energy pricing and work being undertaken on the link between gas and electricity prices. Does that include preparing to make an emergency temporary change to how the system works if gas prices remain high?”

“Does this change your view on how quickly you can look at things like consumer-led flexibility? The argument being made by the industry is that it can be done much quicker than providing new infrastructure and so forth.”

“Finally, I asked a question earlier about the situation we had in the last crisis, where suppliers went bust and the costs ended up being recovered through all of our bills. What is being done at the moment to prevent those failures from happening this time around and, therefore, ultimately costing consumers money?”

“Just before I come on to my questions, can I clarify something, Elizabeth? Obviously, Alex was talking about accepting that, for the overall price of crude oil, whether we produce stuff domestically does not make any difference to the price; the issue is simply about the extra tax raised. You said that, when you are ta…”