Speeches by Jones.

“Can you give me some examples of what a fine might look like for a communications company in an instance such as the outage from the subsea cable failures?”

“Just as a general comment, we have seen in the media how well Faroe Islands do this: 5G connectivity 150 metres below sea level and subsea tunnels. It must be frustrating for islanders in rural communities here in the UK that they cannot get that connectivity because of climate events, storms, heat or whatever. To what…”

“Sorry, I did not hear Ms Davidson’s number from your company, the customers that left following both outages, and similarly with Mr Smith. Could I just have the numbers, please?”

“When you are exploring that topic, would you involve the communities in that resilience plan and guidance, rather than it just being a UK-wide issue?”

“Just picking up on your point, Chair, in regards to contracts and what customers might expect the providers to do during periods of outage, is it possible that each of you can provide the Committee with contracts that were live during the dates of the outages just to help the Committee members understand and see for th…”

“Another point that was mentioned was the legal obligations. I would be interested to know if any communications companies were fined by Ofcom for failing to fulfil their legal obligations to their customers following the outage periods.”

“It was asked by my colleague and has been answered by Mr Donoghue.”

“It is really just a statement, rather than a supplementary, in response to the point about how nobody knew about the £10 million match funding. I have the letter here from the Ministry of Defence, Scotland Office, to the First Minister, and it is to request £10 million match funding. It is clearly written within that l…”

“It is 12 March. It was the date of the announcement. Thank you.”

“We have briefly touched on this but I am going to ask the question nevertheless. Ms Mander and Mr Johnston, does the scale and design of the UK Government’s warm homes plan align with what you think is needed to reduce energy bills and improve energy efficiency?”

“Ms Mander, you quoted Ofgem’s statistic of £4.4 billion in energy debt, which is incredible. Is that UK-wide or Scotland?”

“Given rising network costs, will consumers feel the benefit of the UK Government’s £150 bills cut announced in the autumn Budget?”

“Would you be able to send that to the Clerks after the session?”

“Given the scale of planned upgrades, how realistic is the UK Government’s aim to reduce bills by £300 before the end of this Parliament?”

“That’s not Ofgem’s stat for Scotland?”

“Consumer bills are projected to rise following Ofgem’s approval of £28 billion of national grid upgrades. Where else, apart from consumer bills, could the cost of decarbonising the grid reasonably fall?”

“In your view, what policy interventions would best help consumers in Scotland to make better decisions about their energy bills, consumption and home efficiency?”

“What is the figure for Scotland?”

“The warm homes plan, yes.”

“This Government have recouped £400 million in covid fraud and error, with HMRC recovering a massive £1.3 billion, as well as aggressively pursuing the firm linked to Baroness Mone, PPE Medpro. Does my right hon. Friend agree that this Government’s relentless recovery action demonstrates that it is only under Labour tha…”