Welcome to our weekly recap on the actions of Stone MP Sir Gavin Williamson in Parliament. Find out what votes and debates our MP has taken part in for the week commencing 15th July 2024.
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1 Commons debate
Clean Energy Superpower Mission
18 Jul 2024
Gavin Williamson Conservative, Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge
I congratulate the right hon. Gentleman on his appointment. The decisions that the Government have made will see a much more rapid decommissioning of oil and gas in the North sea. How much additional money has he secured from the Treasury to cover the Government’s legal costs for that decommissioning, and how much does he think it will cost in total?
Ed Miliband The Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero
The most important thing is to secure a just transition for those communities, as set out in our manifesto, through £8.3 billion from Great British Energy and over £7 billion from our national wealth fund. The truth is that there is massive debate in the House about licensing. The right hon. Gentleman will not have been at the debate when we discussed these issues, but the difference it makes to how much of our gas demand is produced domestically is that under the old Government—[Interruption.] Let me explain. Under the old Government policy, there would have been a 95% reduction in our demand met domestically, but under this Government’s policy, it will be 97%. For all the hue and cry from the Opposition, that is the reality.
