Speeches by Young.

“It is almost like you could use humans.”

“Taking advantage at the moment involves the consumers manually deciding that they need to take advantage. Do you see further scope for automating this as you digitalise? You can automate things and therefore people will not have to think about it. At the moment, they have to do quite a lot of thinking.”

“Are there any examples internationally where demand has successfully been manipulated to reduce energy consumption and therefore bills of consumers?”

“In what sense? In the rewards they offer or in the ambition?”

“How confident are you that the smart metering will be in place by 2028?”

“One of my constituents waited two years from the onset of severe symptoms to receive a cancer diagnosis, and another 10 weeks to have the type of cancer identified, at which point it was incurable. One of the key failings in this case seems to be the disconnect between her reporting the symptoms to her GP and getting t…”

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“The My Name’5 Doddie Foundation has told me that, aside from funding, motor neurone disease research needs a better regulatory framework to encourage investment into this country and to make it easier for UK citizens to take part in overseas trials. That research benefits not only the one in 300 who will develop MND bu…”

“Following up on that point, does the hon. Gentleman agree that, in our current system, people vote for what can actually be very loose coalitions? Our electoral system forces us to have very large coalitions in order to form a Government, but voters do not know which parts of those coalitions they are going to get afte…”

“I wonder whether the hon. Gentleman remembers how many Prime Ministers there were between the last election and the one before, and whether voters knew what they were getting at the start of 2019.”

“I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Taunton and Wellington (Gideon Amos) on securing the debate. Having asked for a post office debate at business questions only two weeks ago, I was delighted when he secured this one. In rural areas, such as my Thornbury and Yate constituency, post offices provide vital servi…”

“I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend, having seen the anxiety that the threat of closure is provoking in my constituents. Yate post office is very busy; there are often significant queues of people waiting to access services. It is rather unusual, because it shares its space with the local sorting office, which opera…”

“I want to start by setting the scene. The A432 M4 overbridge forms part of a key route from my constituency into Bristol. It was erected in 1966 when the M4 was built and is a post-tensioned concrete bridge. That is, it has high-strength steel tendons in ducts within concrete to which tension was applied after the conc…”

“Will the Minister give way?”

“Will the Minister give way?”

“Is it right for Government to take control of future connection offers through the deployment targets in their clean power plan, or is that backpedalling on the principle that the energy system should be independently regulated?”

“The Government said that they will introduce legislation, when parliamentary time allows, to ensure that connection reform allies with the strategic energy and network plans and supports the delivery of clean power by 2030. Do you have an idea of when you need that to happen, given that they are being fairly vague on t…”

“Some consumers—those last ones left on network—may well be those who, for economic reasons, are going to struggle to make the change.”

“I am going to talk about grid connections reform, but, before I do, I just want to pick up on the issue of the reprioritisation of the queue. You cannot reprioritise yourself out of a problem if there just is not enough total capacity. Even if you reorder the queue, does your queue still extend beyond the timeline that…”

“Can those connections be provided quickly enough?”