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 281–300 of 780 contributions · most-recent first
| Date | Debate & contribution | Words |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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) “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) “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) “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) “So the past is another country?” | 6 |
| 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) “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 |
| 8 Dec 2025 | NEET Young People “I welcome the commitment to free apprenticeships for small and medium-sized enterprises if they take on under-25s, which was announced in the Budget, and I also welcome the commitment to apprenticeships in the hospitality sector. Can my right hon. Friend confirm that there will be a focus on coastal communities such as…” economy-jobseducationlabour-market | 93 |
| 1 Dec 2025 | Office for Budget Responsibility Forecasts “My right hon. Friend will acknowledge, as he already has done, the importance of stability for families and businesses across this country. What we have called fiscal headroom is frankly money for a rainy day, and it is fundamental to being able to maintain that stability—something that was a failure of the Conservativ…” economy-jobsmp-performance | 89 |