VoteClimate: Energy Market Competition - 14th July 2016

Energy Market Competition - 14th July 2016

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Energy Market Competition.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2016-07-14/debates/11380F77-EDF2-40E2-97A0-2C23F5ACABEB/EnergyMarketCompetition

Andrea Leadsom

My hon. Friend is exactly right. People all too often fail to recognise that the energy trilemma consists of keeping the lights on, keeping bills down, and decarbonising. He is right that the capacity market is there to ensure the security of supply and that is the payment we make to keep the lights on.

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Barry Gardiner (Labour)

I pay tribute to the right hon. Member for Hastings and Rye (Amber Rudd) and congratulate her on her appointment as Home Secretary. Under her charge, the Department of Energy and Climate Change played an important role in securing the Paris climate agreement, and she was a strong and enthusiastic champion for it. Only two weeks ago, some might have suspected that today she would be more likely to be standing at the Dispatch Box saying goodbye to me, but in this place we are beginning to learn to expect the unexpected. She was always courteous and often actually helpful in our exchanges, and we wish her well in her new role.

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