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Energy Policy

Proceeding contribution from Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat) in the House of Commons on Thursday, 29 November 2012. It occurred during Ministerial statement on Energy Policy.

First, on my hon. Friend’s last point, I have made it clear that we will be very transparent about negotiations with EDF or any other company. Of course, he would not expect me to comment on negotiations daily but he would expect me to bring to the House the results of them so that I can be held to account in the proper way.

On my hon. Friend’s first point, he is absolutely right. One of the huge advantages of feed-in tariffs with contracts for difference compared with the renewable obligations certificate system is that the deal is much better for consumers. The policies we are putting in place and electricity market reform will mean that consumer and business bills will be far lower than they otherwise would have been. That is one of the main reasons we are doing this.

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Reference

554 c402 

Session

2012-13

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

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