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 241–260 of 780 contributions · most-recent first
| Date | Debate & contribution | Words |
|---|---|---|
| 10 Dec 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “This is on CfDs, and we heard a little bit from the previous panel about once ROs run out and so forth, and how things will keep running. With the CfD now fixing prices for up to 20 years are we at risk of locking in higher costs for consumers through to 2045?” | 53 |
| 10 Dec 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “People pay twice?” | 3 |
| 10 Dec 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “Because of its centralising instincts?” | 5 |
| 10 Dec 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “Is this too counter to the way we currently run our system for it to be a natural step in part of our transition?” | 24 |
| 10 Dec 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “Okay. When you are talking about the investment cost—and it is the chunk of money that is on your bill to reflect the cost of investment—how different would that be from basically a big chunk of money to make the system work? It would still feel like a big chunk of money that you spend.” | 55 |
| 10 Dec 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “Forgive me, Professor, I know I do not know very much about this in comparison to you, but when I look at my energy bill and when we have been talking about network costs and policy costs and people’s usage, that is how it feels. It feels like I am paying that amount of money. If I spend any time thinking about it at a…” | 124 |
| 10 Dec 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “No, but other energy costs would be cheaper over time and possibly more competitive with renewables to be able to set that price.” | 23 |
| 10 Dec 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “Ana, what do you think about this?” | 7 |
| 10 Dec 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “I understand that, but we are not the only ones experiencing this challenge. I am probing a little bit on understanding whether anything similar has been explored or is being explored, is being developed, in similar kinds of energy markets to ours.” | 42 |
| 10 Dec 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “There is not another country or market that does this?” | 10 |
| 10 Dec 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “So the past is another country?” | 6 |
| 10 Dec 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “Is there any comparable market to ours where this has already been tried?” | 13 |
| 10 Dec 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “I know as an academic you would love it if we were to say to you, “Well, go away and do some research and find out what the solution is”.” | 30 |
| 10 Dec 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “I recognise that this is a different system and that, therefore, it needs a different set of regulations. However, the regulations that we have, have been built and accumulated over time on a set of principles that worked when we only had two generators. Now, when we have many generators—I will not be the person who su…” | 78 |
| 10 Dec 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “How many years?” | 3 |
| 10 Dec 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “Thirty-five years. In the intervening 35 years we have built up a carbuncled system that is teetering like—I am going to mix my metaphors—something that is about to fall over if we say, “Actually we need to change that”. Each time, rather than change it or take it off we add something else and then wonder why it is tee…” | 61 |
| 10 Dec 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “Is that because there was a clear strategic direction that the markets were going to deliver, and over the intervening—how many years is it since we privatised the energy system?” | 30 |
| 10 Dec 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “If it is abated, that does not make the same economic sense, does it?” | 14 |
| 10 Dec 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “I am just going to ask one more question because I know I am being annoying, sorry. In that circumstance is there a risk that if you are paying for the cost of investment and not the amount of energy that you use that the bill disincentivises energy efficiency?” | 49 |
| 10 Dec 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “Do you have a proposal for what we should do as an alternative to that outcome?” | 16 |