VoteClimate: Northern Ireland Executive Formation - 31st January 2024

Northern Ireland Executive Formation - 31st January 2024

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Northern Ireland Executive Formation.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2024-01-31/debates/211B60F1-4CC0-43EB-97C3-C38F2ED7FD77/NorthernIrelandExecutiveFormation

13:20 Hilary Benn (Labour)

We are still part of that single market and, from what I see in the Command Paper, we will continue to be. As a consequence, in our energy market in Northern Ireland—I would like an answer on this—we are paying a carbon tax at an entirely different rate from any other part of Great Britain. For our electricity supply, our carbon offset is twice the level paid in any other part of the United Kingdom. What measures on that are included in the Command Paper? It was handed to us at what I would call the eleventh hour and 59th minute. We would like to be given time to get into the details. We very much feel like we are being bounced through a timetable and that we will not get through the detail that is supposedly in the statutory instruments and the Command Paper.

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