Speeches by Billington.
Every Hansard contribution by Polly Billington this parliament, most recent first. Back to the MP page for the headline figures and analysed positions.
Showing 141–160 of 649 contributions · most-recent first
| Date | Debate & contribution | Words |
|---|---|---|
| 10 Dec 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “These are the consequences of policy changes; if you change your policy, you electrify the heat and you electrify EVs you get electricity demand go up. The CCC, Mission Control, Clean Power 2030 Plan, everything accepts that fundamentally if we are going to decarbonise our system electricity demand will go up.” | 51 |
| 10 Dec 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “It will go up radically because we will electrify the system and particularly increase the need for electrification of heat and EVs.” | 22 |
| 10 Dec 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “Adam?” | 1 |
| 10 Dec 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “We also know with high capital costs and so forth, and with the auction coming up, there is a risk that we end up locking in high costs for new investment—” | 31 |
| 10 Dec 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “This is on CfDs, and we heard a little bit from the previous panel about once ROs run out and so forth, and how things will keep running. With the CfD now fixing prices for up to 20 years are we at risk of locking in higher costs for consumers through to 2045?” | 53 |
| 10 Dec 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “People pay twice?” | 3 |
| 10 Dec 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “Because of its centralising instincts?” | 5 |
| 10 Dec 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “Is this too counter to the way we currently run our system for it to be a natural step in part of our transition?” | 24 |
| 10 Dec 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “No, but other energy costs would be cheaper over time and possibly more competitive with renewables to be able to set that price.” | 23 |
| 10 Dec 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “Ana, what do you think about this?” | 7 |
| 10 Dec 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “I understand that, but we are not the only ones experiencing this challenge. I am probing a little bit on understanding whether anything similar has been explored or is being explored, is being developed, in similar kinds of energy markets to ours.” | 42 |
| 10 Dec 2025 | Seasonal Work “I am grateful to the Government for the fact that Ramsgate in particular is benefiting from the Pride in Place fund. More widely, on the matter of seasonal work, which is vital for coastal communities such as mine, can the Minister confirm that seasonal and hospitality workers will benefit from many of the measures in …” economy-jobslabour-marketfiscal-policy | 87 |
| 10 Dec 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “There is not another country or market that does this?” | 10 |
| 10 Dec 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “So the past is another country?” | 6 |
| 10 Dec 2025 | Seasonal Work “I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way. I was interested in him suggesting that it was Labour’s principles that are causing the problem. Which bit of our plan for small and medium-sized businesses, action to tackle late payments, reducing regulatory burdens and expanding access to finance does he disagree with?” economy-jobslabour-marketfiscal-policy | 51 |
| 10 Dec 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “Is there any comparable market to ours where this has already been tried?” | 13 |
| 10 Dec 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “I know as an academic you would love it if we were to say to you, “Well, go away and do some research and find out what the solution is”.” | 30 |
| 10 Dec 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “Thirty-five years. In the intervening 35 years we have built up a carbuncled system that is teetering like—I am going to mix my metaphors—something that is about to fall over if we say, “Actually we need to change that”. Each time, rather than change it or take it off we add something else and then wonder why it is tee…” | 61 |
| 10 Dec 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “I recognise that this is a different system and that, therefore, it needs a different set of regulations. However, the regulations that we have, have been built and accumulated over time on a set of principles that worked when we only had two generators. Now, when we have many generators—I will not be the person who su…” | 78 |
| 10 Dec 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “How many years?” | 3 |