The Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change (Amber Rudd)

Today I am setting out my priorities for the UK’s energy and climate change policy for the coming Parliament and publishing the DECC autumn update which sets out our key priorities and the recent progress the Department has made against them.

Affordable, reliable clean energy is critical to our economy, our national security, and to family budgets. We need secure energy so people can get on with their lives and businesses can plan for the future. Affordable energy so the people that foot the bill get a good deal, and clean energy to safeguard our future economic security and ensure we can meet our climate change commitments.

As well as taking action at home, we must work with others internationally. Climate change is a global problem, not a local one. This is why I am determined that we help restore the EU emissions trading system to full health and build stronger ties on energy within Europe, and why a global deal in Paris next month is so important. Paris must deliver that and help unleash the levels of private investment and local action needed.

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