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 261–280 of 780 contributions · most-recent first
| Date | Debate & contribution | Words |
|---|---|---|
| 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) “Is that not what we effectively have with the network costs chunk plus your use on top of that?” | 19 |
| 10 Dec 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “Apologies for being late. Professor Grubb, I am interested in your idea about consumers having access for the cost of investment on bills. What would that look like?” | 28 |
| 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) “Is that not what we effectively have with the network costs chunk plus your use on top of that?” | 19 |
| 10 Dec 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “CfDs were created about 12, 13 years ago now. Are they the right mechanism for the next stage of the transition pathway to investing in more renewables and making the system work? First Adam and then Tom.” | 37 |
| 10 Dec 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “Ana, I am sure you have some views on this.” | 10 |
| 10 Dec 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “I will not ask the question I want to about CfDs and local energy. I will need to do that in writing because I am aware of where we need to make some more progress.” | 35 |
| 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) “You do not think that is fair?” | 7 |
| 10 Dec 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “Yes.” | 1 |
| 10 Dec 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “I will be a bit of gloomster here. Things will get worse. Things will get worse in the middle of a development. You could have a CfD price you have agreed and then suddenly, dare I say it, capital costs could go exponentially, so you end up with an uneconomic development. Should there be some kind of mechanism to recov…” | 71 |
| 10 Dec 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “I will not ask the question I want to about CfDs and local energy. I will need to do that in writing because I am aware of where we need to make some more progress.” | 35 |
| 10 Dec 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “Your solution for reducing this is to take gas out of the system?” | 13 |
| 10 Dec 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “This goes back to my point about CfDs. Are we risking locking in high electricity costs which will create a disincentive for the decarbonisation that we are looking for?” | 29 |
| 10 Dec 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “These are the consequences of policy changes; if you change your policy, you electrify the heat and you electrify EVs you get electricity demand go up. The CCC, Mission Control, Clean Power 2030 Plan, everything accepts that fundamentally if we are going to decarbonise our system electricity demand will go up.” | 51 |
| 10 Dec 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “It will go up radically because we will electrify the system and particularly increase the need for electrification of heat and EVs.” | 22 |
| 10 Dec 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “Adam?” | 1 |
| 10 Dec 2025 | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 736) “We also know with high capital costs and so forth, and with the auction coming up, there is a risk that we end up locking in high costs for new investment—” | 31 |
| 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 |