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• 18 Mar 2025: Parliamentary Speech

  7. What recent estimate his Department has made of the cost of decarbonising the electricity grid by 2030. ( 903235 )

  Full debate: Electricity Grid Decarbonisation

• 3 Mar 2025: Parliamentary Speech

  This measure is vying with the national insurance contribution change to be the most absurd measure. I think that it wins by a head. The Prime Minister says that we must have energy security, and the Climate Change Committee that says we will still need oil and gas for 25% of our energy needs if we meet net zero in 2050, but the Government will have no more licences. We will lose tens of thousands of jobs, tens of billions of pounds in tax, and the engineering capability that we need for the transition. It is absurd on every single possible front.

  My hon. Friend is 100% correct. I think we all know that the architect of much of this is the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, who takes a rather fundamentalist approach. He wants to cover farmland with solar farms, and wants to undermine our oil and gas sector. We on the Opposition Benches disagree. It was the previous Government who introduced the levy, but that was to tackle extraordinary profits at an extraordinary time. The revenue helped to keep energy bills lower for all our constituents, but now the Government are ratcheting up the levy and seem to want to tax North sea exploration out of existence. This is just a further example of the Government’s ill-conceived energy policy. GB Energy is a net zero vanity project that will not generate any energy or be an energy supplier. It certainly will not deliver £300 off bills.

  Full debate: Finance Bill

• 12 Feb 2025: Tweet

  Pleased to officially open the College of West Anglia’s new Green Skills Centre in King’s Lynn – a major investment in training locally inc. retro fitting, renewable energy, EV maintenance, drone ops for building surveying and join @DuraEnergy ???? @WestNorfolkBC Mayor & others https://x.com/jamesowild/status/1889739762577146324/video/1 [Source]

• 30 Jan 2025: Parliamentary Speech

  The Government are committed to reaching net zero by 2050. As we make progress to decarbonise, we must ensure that the effect of our efforts is not undermined by carbon leakage. I am sure that hon. Members know this, but for the benefit of the Committee, let me define carbon leakage: it is the movement of production and its associated emissions from one country to another to avoid higher decarbonisation efforts and costs. The best solution to carbon leakage risk would be international co-ordination on decarbonisation and carbon pricing. However, many countries do not yet have domestic carbon pricing mechanisms. Consequently, introducing the UK CBAM will reduce the risk of carbon leakage by placing a carbon price on carbon-intensive goods imported into the UK from 2027.

  Full debate: Finance Bill (Fourth sitting)