VoteClimate: Energy Consumer Support - 18th March 2025

Energy Consumer Support - 18th March 2025

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

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2025-03-18/debates/F0AA6466-4ECE-4DAC-9942-0D6F32111C1C/EnergyConsumerSupport

George Freeman (Conservative)

For the record, I and my constituents are proud of the southern North sea development—the largest wind farm in the world, begun under the last Government. However, we are not happy about this Government’s rush to force our consumers to pay higher bills; to see, as a result of vast subsidies, farmers in a very important agricultural area of Norfolk farming solar panels, rather than the food that we need to ensure affordability and our security; and to abandon agricultural leadership on net zero. Can the Minister reassure my consumers that £250 is adequate compensation for higher bills and the defoliation of a large part of Norfolk? That is what has happened in the rush towards ill-thought-out net zero targets, set in London, without any consideration of local people.

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