Speeches by Young.

“In the past we had tax relief on investment in community energy. What difference did that make and how would reinstating it compare with other ways to help to finance community energy in terms of impact and importance?”

“To come back to you, Helen, you referred tangentially earlier to local energy clubs. If there was a simpler way to set up local energy clubs so that more communities could benefit from local renewables, how could that help community energy groups to raise finance for new projects? Is that something Great British Energy…”

“You are concerned that reinstating it could still risk a double subsidy. Do you have any suggestions for overcoming that problem?”

“GB Energy has £1 billion of funding for the Local Power Plan. You have mentioned a number of ways that it could use that. How would it use it most strategically to help to reduce development and capital expenditure?”

“You have mentioned Great British Energy here—you have an amazing ability to answer my questions before I ask them, which I have to say is astonishing.”

“You do not, between you, seem to be expressing a preference one way or the other. You are saying that all these things could contribute, but do you have any sense for which is the most important thing for Government to do?”

“In the past we had tax relief on investment in community energy. What difference did that make and how would reinstating it compare with other ways to help to finance community energy in terms of impact and importance?”

“I draw the House’s attention to the fact that I am vice-chair of the all-party parliamentary group for the western gateway. The Government have so far refused to allocate further funding for the western gateway partnership, which has brought together businesses, academia and local leaders to produce some impressive wor…”

“I thank the Minister for advance sight of her statement, much of which we can agree with. The North sea gives the UK the opportunity to become a powerhouse in renewable energy generation, and it is time that we seized it. We urge the Government to make good their commitment to consult on a new regime to boost investmen…”

“I want to talk about one of the other themes that came through in the written evidence, which is about consumer demand then driving increased labour demand. There was some concern that members of the current workforce feel they do not need to retrain because there will be plenty of work doing what they are doing at the…”

“As you have had Wales and Scotland taking that approach sooner, do you have evidence from that that you could send us that would demonstrate the point you are making?”

“I want to follow up on that final point about better ways of assigning existing spending. One thing that has been raised with me locally with regards to green jobs is whether the unspent apprenticeship levy could be localised and used within the local further education college network to better support skills training …”

“Is it a necessary but not sufficient condition, or is it not even necessary?”

“Finally, is there anything the Government can do to further stimulate the existing efforts that others are making to increase demand, like the third sector and early adopters?”

“If we come back to the original question, you accept that it is necessary to increase consumer demand. In that case, how do we avoid that putting too high a cost burden on consumers?”

“My next question is about incentivising consumer take-up without the Government having to make significant fiscal commitments, but it sounds like where you want the fiscal commitments to go is in shaping the behaviour of the suppliers.”

“In that case, how can that be done without fiscal commitments from the Government?”

“What you are doing is challenging the basic premise of my question. The evidence is saying that if we increase consumer demand, that will increase the labour demand. All the questions are around the various things you could do. This question was around the Government doing something in terms of regulation to push peopl…”

“Is there sufficient alignment between UK domestic and international product standards to ensure that exports in the low-carbon energy sector are both feasible and competitive?”

“Is there sufficient alignment between UK domestic and international product standards to ensure that exports in the low-carbon energy sector are both feasible and competitive?”