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 121–140 of 640 contributions · most-recent first
| Date | Debate & contribution | Words |
|---|---|---|
| 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) “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) “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) “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) “How many years?” | 3 |
| 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 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) “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) “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) “Ana, I am sure you have some views on this.” | 10 |
| 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 |