Speeches by Young.

“You do not, between you, seem to be expressing a preference one way or the other. You are saying that all these things could contribute, but do you have any sense for which is the most important thing for Government to do?”

“Some of the questions I was going to ask about guaranteed minimum prices for electricity have probably already been covered to some extent. It is certainly something that has come up in my patch when I talked to Marshfield Community Energy. Specifically in terms of achieving 8 GW by 2030, do you think that price certai…”

“You have mentioned Great British Energy here—you have an amazing ability to answer my questions before I ask them, which I have to say is astonishing.”

“I draw the House’s attention to the fact that I am vice-chair of the all-party parliamentary group for the western gateway. The Government have so far refused to allocate further funding for the western gateway partnership, which has brought together businesses, academia and local leaders to produce some impressive wor…”

“I thank the Minister for advance sight of her statement, much of which we can agree with. The North sea gives the UK the opportunity to become a powerhouse in renewable energy generation, and it is time that we seized it. We urge the Government to make good their commitment to consult on a new regime to boost investmen…”

“In that case, how can that be done without fiscal commitments from the Government?”

“Finally, is there anything the Government can do to further stimulate the existing efforts that others are making to increase demand, like the third sector and early adopters?”

“My next question is about incentivising consumer take-up without the Government having to make significant fiscal commitments, but it sounds like where you want the fiscal commitments to go is in shaping the behaviour of the suppliers.”

“If we come back to the original question, you accept that it is necessary to increase consumer demand. In that case, how do we avoid that putting too high a cost burden on consumers?”

“Is it a necessary but not sufficient condition, or is it not even necessary?”

“What you are doing is challenging the basic premise of my question. The evidence is saying that if we increase consumer demand, that will increase the labour demand. All the questions are around the various things you could do. This question was around the Government doing something in terms of regulation to push peopl…”

“I want to talk about one of the other themes that came through in the written evidence, which is about consumer demand then driving increased labour demand. There was some concern that members of the current workforce feel they do not need to retrain because there will be plenty of work doing what they are doing at the…”

“As you have had Wales and Scotland taking that approach sooner, do you have evidence from that that you could send us that would demonstrate the point you are making?”

“I want to follow up on that final point about better ways of assigning existing spending. One thing that has been raised with me locally with regards to green jobs is whether the unspent apprenticeship levy could be localised and used within the local further education college network to better support skills training …”

“Yes, particularly about being able to reuse and recycle.”

“Should we be developing standards in this area?”

“You have already mentioned the voluntary 50% UK local content rules. Olivia, what is your perspective on local content rules, especially for new and upcoming clean energy technologies?”

“You say it is about sending signals, but are there any more concrete things that you are doing from your side?”

“You have already mentioned the voluntary 50% UK local content rules. Olivia, what is your perspective on local content rules, especially for new and upcoming clean energy technologies?”

“You say it is about sending signals, but are there any more concrete things that you are doing from your side?”