Speeches by Doogan.

“Yes, there is. Mr Leslie, how long have you been involved in strategic planning within NESO?”

“You are responsible for where we are now.”

“You understand how that sounds a bit “jam tomorrow”.”

“If, as you suggest, bill payers should be grateful, I do not think that we should confuse effort with effect. I am sure that Ofgem is busy doing a lot of stuff, whatever that is, but in your scenario, people should be grateful and hold Ofgem in high esteem. If Ofgem was not there, how much worse could it be for bill pa…”

“It is a badly managed process.”

“We have just heard a 40-minute, self-aggrandising monologue on how wonderful everything is in the economy. Does the Chancellor have any clue how her tone-deaf monologue will have landed in the real economy, where growth has been downgraded, unemployment is soaring and the cost of energy has just spiked? There was nothi…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Alec. First, I would like to correct the record; as you can clearly see, Sir Alec, the SNP are very much in this debate, contrary to the claims of the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross (Jamie Stone).”

“On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. On 10 February, the Minister for Defence Readiness and Industry was called to the House to answer an urgent question about a meeting between Palantir, Peter Mandelson and the Prime Minister in February 2025, after which there was an uncompeted award of £245 million from the Mi…”

“I completely agree that the Government have to look again at it and listen carefully. I know it is a serious Minister who has come to speak to the debate today, so I am hopeful that we will get clear remarks on how the Government intend to properly interrogate the consultation and divine from the responses precisely ho…”

“It is only fair that I accept both of those from the hon. Member. We are here because of the 121,000 signatures on the petition, and many of the constituencies with the highest counts of signatures are in Scotland, where gun ownership per capita is much higher than it is elsewhere in these isles, for entirely predictab…”

“It shows yet more extraordinarily poor judgment on the part of the Prime Minister that he met personally with Palantir—a highly questionable organisation that is complicit in the ruination of Palestine and the devastation wreaked in the US by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Palantir are into the United Kingdom tax…”

“The energy market in Scotland operates in surplus in both generation and transmission, whereas the energy market in England operates in shortage in both generation and transmission. Unfortunately, that means that in a GB energy market, Scotland gets sucked in to subsidising energy costs for English consumers. Over and …”

“12. What steps he is taking to help reduce consumer energy prices in Scotland.”

“Do you have to be a high-usage customer to benefit from £150?”

“Your point is well made that £150 is indicative. How can a customer work out how much they will benefit, whether it might be a tenner or £150?”

“Mr Hammond, you say you are working with the Government for customers on fixed tariffs. What is the conclusion of that work? My understanding is that if you are currently on a fixed tariff, you will not benefit.”

“You say you need to reduce energy costs now, but energy costs are going up now.”

“Is that 2031 or 2039?”

“As a representative of industry, what is your estimate of when any of our constituents will see a single penny come off their electricity bills as a result of grid investment?”

“Who says 10 years is decent? The industry or the Government?”