VoteClimate: Economic Responsibility and a Plan for Growth - 19th October 2022

Economic Responsibility and a Plan for Growth - 19th October 2022

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Economic Responsibility and a Plan for Growth.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2022-10-19/debates/C58B9813-AF57-4D5A-967D-8F250C360F31/EconomicResponsibilityAndAPlanForGrowth

13:35 Drew Hendry (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey) (SNP)

The Chancellor has ominously set that cap up for a review in six months, providing no certainty for increasingly desperate people, while rich bankers will still be able to see their wages rocket, as I said, with the cap on their bonuses removed. The energy crisis is even more galling for my constituents, and many more across Scotland, as they see their energy being produced from their backyards, yet folk in the colder climate of the highlands pay more per unit for electricity than people anywhere else in the UK—renewable energy suppliers are charged more to connect to the grid than those anywhere else in the UK, and the picture is particularly bleak for those who are off the gas grid.

As I was saying, those off gas grid consumers are being given £100. Scotland is energy rich and a net exporter of energy. Renewable energy is six to nine times cheaper than the gas-fired power our prices are linked to. In Scotland we have the energy, but until we have the power our people will continue to be ignored over their basic needs and their potential.

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15:23 Sam Tarry (Ilford South) (Lab)

The energy giants will continue to raise their mark-ups as long as they are allowed to do so, and they cannot be trusted to keep bills at affordable levels. It is high time that they are replaced by a single publicly owned energy company, run by workers and held to account by consumers. We need a genuinely transformative green new deal, working hand in hand with a coherent, progressive industrial strategy to rebalance the economy away from the City of London and create millions of high-skilled, well-paid, unionised jobs—forging a greener, more just society and putting Britain at the heart of the fight internationally against climate change.

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