PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Energy: Prices (6 November 2024)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of lifting the onshore wind ban on energy prices.
Asked by:
Jas Athwal (Labour)
Asked by:
Jas Athwal (Labour)
Answer
The Government is committed to radically scaling up deployment of technologies such as onshore wind, as demonstrated by our lifting of the planning ban earlier this year.
A clean power system will protect consumers from global gas prices and fluctuations which, as a result of the failure of the party opposite, drove increases of over £1,300 in the electricity price cap for a typical household during the winter of 2022 / 2023.
Answered by:
Michael Shanks (Labour)
12 November 2024
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