Speeches by Young.

“Dion, did you want to add anything to that?”

“What do you think we should do about that?”

“On the issue of the enforcement of landlord standards, what do the Government need to do to make sure that that is going to be consistent and effective?”

“We are thinking domestic consumers on this.”

“What policies would accelerate cost reductions and reduce reliance on the volatile electricity price ratio?”

“Brenda?”

“Yes.”

“We have talked about alternatives like heat batteries. Louise, you mentioned that in dense city-centre locations heat networks would potentially be a good use, yet we are still not really seeing any action on that. Is that something you feel should be approached through the plan, or will it have to be dealt with separa…”

“We have heard that the plan offers less money for lifting households out of fuel poverty. Peter, you mentioned the particular issue of low-income and owner-occupied households. Can I start by asking each of you to briefly say whether you think the merged warm homes local grant and warm homes social housing fund schemes…”

“Are you concerned at the moment that they do not have the expertise to support?”

“Hundreds of my constituents have written to me about Royal Mail failures. I have raised them with Ofcom, but it tells me that it cannot investigate local complaints, and Royal Mail will not act on them. Will the Minister commit to reviewing Ofcom’s powers to hold Royal Mail to account at a local level?”

“Okay. If there is this projected shortfall of installations, how can we address that? I will start with Louise because it sounds like that might be through alternative means.”

“Do you want to add anything, Sam?”

“Heat batteries are the only clean heat technology certified by the microgeneration certification scheme that is excluded from VAT relief under the energy-saving materials framework. This penalises smaller homes and lower-income households that cannot accommodate a heat pump. Will the Chancellor commit to removing that …”

“My constituent is a hard-working taxpayer, but his wife and daughter remain in Iran because the family reunion route has effectively been closed since September. Does the Minister accept that failing to provide controlled, safe and legal routes not only lets down families like this one, but fuels the use of dangerous r…”

“A constituent approached me in January having applied for his pension over six months earlier, with no resolution. He has been forced to draw on his personal savings simply to get by. Will the Government introduce a redress scheme for pensioners who were forced to deplete their savings or even take out commercial loans…”

“My constituents regularly complain about private parking companies. Recent examples include a firm passing a case to debt collectors after the constituent provided evidence that they were ill and another issuing a charge when the driver had paid but the machine failed. Following last September’s consultation on raising…”

“On nuclear, I note that, had small modular reactors gone to Oldbury, Wylfa would still be available for other options to reduce our fossil fuel dependence. I want to ask about small businesses. On top of a rising tax burden, the fear of further energy spikes causes small businesses in my constituency, particularly ener…”

“My next question may not be so relevant, then, because I was going to say how might ED3, the next price control, keep these costs reasonable? Your argument is that, in the grand scheme of things, even if they change quite significantly, overall the actual change that consumers will see will be very small.”

“Are five-year periods of price control long enough to incentivise suppliers and consumers to take up flexibility?”