Speeches by Young.

“How confident are you that the smart metering will be in place by 2028?”

“One of my constituents waited two years from the onset of severe symptoms to receive a cancer diagnosis, and another 10 weeks to have the type of cancer identified, at which point it was incurable. One of the key failings in this case seems to be the disconnect between her reporting the symptoms to her GP and getting t…”

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“The My Name’5 Doddie Foundation has told me that, aside from funding, motor neurone disease research needs a better regulatory framework to encourage investment into this country and to make it easier for UK citizens to take part in overseas trials. That research benefits not only the one in 300 who will develop MND bu…”

“Following up on that point, does the hon. Gentleman agree that, in our current system, people vote for what can actually be very loose coalitions? Our electoral system forces us to have very large coalitions in order to form a Government, but voters do not know which parts of those coalitions they are going to get afte…”

“I wonder whether the hon. Gentleman remembers how many Prime Ministers there were between the last election and the one before, and whether voters knew what they were getting at the start of 2019.”

“I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Taunton and Wellington (Gideon Amos) on securing the debate. Having asked for a post office debate at business questions only two weeks ago, I was delighted when he secured this one. In rural areas, such as my Thornbury and Yate constituency, post offices provide vital servi…”

“I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend, having seen the anxiety that the threat of closure is provoking in my constituents. Yate post office is very busy; there are often significant queues of people waiting to access services. It is rather unusual, because it shares its space with the local sorting office, which opera…”

“I want to start by setting the scene. The A432 M4 overbridge forms part of a key route from my constituency into Bristol. It was erected in 1966 when the M4 was built and is a post-tensioned concrete bridge. That is, it has high-strength steel tendons in ducts within concrete to which tension was applied after the conc…”

“Will the Minister give way?”

“Will the Minister give way?”

“Is it right for Government to take control of future connection offers through the deployment targets in their clean power plan, or is that backpedalling on the principle that the energy system should be independently regulated?”

“The Government said that they will introduce legislation, when parliamentary time allows, to ensure that connection reform allies with the strategic energy and network plans and supports the delivery of clean power by 2030. Do you have an idea of when you need that to happen, given that they are being fairly vague on t…”

“Some consumers—those last ones left on network—may well be those who, for economic reasons, are going to struggle to make the change.”

“I am going to talk about grid connections reform, but, before I do, I just want to pick up on the issue of the reprioritisation of the queue. You cannot reprioritise yourself out of a problem if there just is not enough total capacity. Even if you reorder the queue, does your queue still extend beyond the timeline that…”

“Can those connections be provided quickly enough?”

“What do you see as your role at that stage, where gas prices are increasing massively and the poorest in society are having to pay those prices on an ongoing basis, because they cannot make the changes to their heating system that are needed?”

“Moving on to grid connections reform and your role in that, you are due to make a significant decision on NESO’s proposals for connections reform, and there is a presumption that you will approve them. Why should Ofgem rather than NESO ultimately be responsible for this process?”

“We know that decarbonising energy systems will require significant local action. However, there is still a lack of a clear framework for the involvement of local authorities and local area energy plans, and how these fit in or are considered. Can you explain Ofgem’s vision for the inclusion and empowerment of local aut…”

“We have heard that the Government’s heavy reliance on the distribution networks for solar generation is “wildly unrealistic”. Do you have any concerns about the level of industry consultation undertaken in developing these plans, by either NESO or the Government?”