I thank my right hon. Friend for that typically well-made and excellent point. If the major energy companies established a long-term fund on that basis to make the investment that they say they are making—and which they are making, but which they say they want to make more of and which the Government want them to make more of—that would be helpful, not just as a signal to the market of where they were using their capital, but as a signal to the country that they were serious about putting their money where their mouth is.
Action on Climate Change and Decarbonisation
Proceeding contribution from
Bim Afolami
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 5 July 2022.
It occurred during Estimates day on Action on Climate Change and Decarbonisation.
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