Speeches by Doogan.

“I completely agree that the Government have to look again at it and listen carefully. I know it is a serious Minister who has come to speak to the debate today, so I am hopeful that we will get clear remarks on how the Government intend to properly interrogate the consultation and divine from the responses precisely ho…”

“It shows yet more extraordinarily poor judgment on the part of the Prime Minister that he met personally with Palantir—a highly questionable organisation that is complicit in the ruination of Palestine and the devastation wreaked in the US by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Palantir are into the United Kingdom tax…”

“The energy market in Scotland operates in surplus in both generation and transmission, whereas the energy market in England operates in shortage in both generation and transmission. Unfortunately, that means that in a GB energy market, Scotland gets sucked in to subsidising energy costs for English consumers. Over and …”

“12. What steps he is taking to help reduce consumer energy prices in Scotland.”

“Do you have to be a high-usage customer to benefit from £150?”

“Your point is well made that £150 is indicative. How can a customer work out how much they will benefit, whether it might be a tenner or £150?”

“Mr Hammond, you say you are working with the Government for customers on fixed tariffs. What is the conclusion of that work? My understanding is that if you are currently on a fixed tariff, you will not benefit.”

“You say you need to reduce energy costs now, but energy costs are going up now.”

“Is that 2031 or 2039?”

“As a representative of industry, what is your estimate of when any of our constituents will see a single penny come off their electricity bills as a result of grid investment?”

“Who says 10 years is decent? The industry or the Government?”

“Would you say there is a fair balance between transient benefits for the local communities during construction and structural benefits that will endure over time? Even the discount—if you happen to be near a pylon or a new pylon—is limited to 10 years; the pylons will be there for 70 years at least.”

“My concern—please explain if I am inaccurate—is that we have the worst of all worlds: bill payers are paying for the investment in offshore wind through the contracts for difference, but we are not getting the benefit of that, because we cannot get it on to the network in the volume we require. People are very focused …”

“Dr Calvillo, curtailment charges are a huge challenge. People find them inexplicable because they are inexplicable: it is like buying an expensive generator and connecting it to your off-grid house with a 13-amp cable and then only being able to operate your lights, not your heating. That is essentially what the UK has…”

“To follow on very quickly from that, both improving energy efficiency and the cost of energy would be helpful, as would a social tariff. Is it cogent to suggest that a social tariff could be delivered with a level of immediacy? Energy efficiency and lower energy prices will need to unwind through the system over time w…”

“Ms Mander and Mr Johnston, the proposals by Ofgem for debt relief involve transferring the burden of that debt on to the bills of people who are not in debt. That is essentially what the plan is. There is good reason to think that Ofgem does not actually understand the market that it is charged with regulating. Are you…”

“It does not say “English Business Rates” up there on the annunciator, so I assume the Minister can confirm that the budget—the departmental expenditure limit—for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government will increase with the new money, which will mean Barnett consequentials for the devolved nations. W…”

“Constituents of mine have restored the Alyth hotel. It has gone from near dereliction to being an outstanding venue for dining and drinking, and a hotel. However, they are smothered by the compound burden of VAT rates, wage costs, duty increases, employer national insurance contributions, energy costs and the squeeze o…”

“The SNP is broadly supportive of the contents of the Bill. It is an important Armed Forces Bill; it is hard to remember another Armed Forces Bill that stepped into such a yawning breach between the armed forces capabilities that we have and the armed forces capabilities that we need. Notwithstanding the fact that claus…”

“What you say is very interesting Mr Kinniburgh. In the defence space, the subsea environment is increasingly contested and the defence of that realm will rely on subsea technology and capability. Is it your contention that the just transition for oil and gas workers should go beyond transitioning from one form of energ…”