Speeches by Billington.
Every Hansard contribution by Polly Billington this parliament, most recent first. Back to the MP page for the headline figures and analysed positions.
Showing 201–220 of 640 contributions · most-recent first
| Date | Debate & contribution | Words |
|---|---|---|
| 12 Nov 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 394) “That could also be GB Energy, couldn’t it?” | 8 |
| 12 Nov 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 394) “And do the energy derisking and underwriting projects?” | 8 |
| 12 Nov 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 394) “That is the paragraph you mentioned, yes?” | 7 |
| 12 Nov 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 394) “Which are the barriers you would take away?” | 8 |
| 12 Nov 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 394) “It is 12 November 2025, so we have less than five years to get 8 GW of community energy power on to the system. What is your honest assessment of our prospects of being able to do that under the current system?” | 42 |
| 12 Nov 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 394) “Let’s go on to the barriers. How long does it normally take to get a community energy project online?” | 19 |
| 12 Nov 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 394) “It is interesting that there are other benefits apart from the generation of the energy that is factored in. Of course, that is not including a metric for Clean Power 2030; should it be?” | 34 |
| 12 Nov 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 394) “I would love you all to answer on that.” | 9 |
| 12 Nov 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 394) “I am making a back-of-a-fag packet point, but it still stands. We had NESO in the other day. It does not take any responsibility for the 8 GW target, so my concern that is no one is taking responsibility. National Grid did not take any responsibility for it either. The distribution network operators do not take any res…” | 180 |
| 12 Nov 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 394) “Yours is 1 GW across London just for solar.” | 9 |
| 12 Nov 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 394) “I do not expect you to know specifically the answer to this, but it is worthwhile just putting it on the record. Do we know how much community benefit in gigawatts is already in development, conceptually? Tanuja, you mentioned the 1 GW of solar planned across your part of north London. Does anybody have an idea about h…” | 71 |
| 12 Nov 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 394) “We rely on committed councils to get us to 8 GW by 2030.” | 13 |
| 12 Nov 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 394) “What rules need to change for that 8 GW to be achieved?” | 12 |
| 12 Nov 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 394) “How else are we going to get to 8 GW, then?” | 11 |
| 12 Nov 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 394) “The Government have announced or committed to an 8 GW contribution of community energy to Clean Power 2030. In the context of what you are saying, do you think it needs to be—a bit like every local plan must contribute to the 1.5 million homes—that every local authority should be contributing to that 8 GW? How would th…” | 90 |
| 12 Nov 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 394) “It is a win for this afternoon.” | 7 |
| 12 Nov 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 394) “I have had a thought, and this is very dangerous in these circumstances. Jenny, if you had a material consideration, I know that you are talking specifically about planning law, but I am also interested in the fact that community energy can increase grid resilience and at the moment that is not factored into the system…” | 124 |
| 12 Nov 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 394) “What should change for that to happen?” | 7 |
| 12 Nov 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 394) “I am not being funny, Dan, but I did not know what Jenny has just told us about the material consideration. I am a new legislator, but I am a legislator. Not knowing about the system is not that unusual. It is about how much we need to change the system to make it easier and not end up with unintended consequences, whi…” | 68 |
| 12 Nov 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 394) “What do you think are the prospects of the Government hitting their target in four years and two months?” | 19 |