Domestic Energy Tariffs

Part of Energy and Climate Change – in the House of Commons at 10:30 am on 9 July 2009.

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Photo of Denis MacShane Denis MacShane Labour, Rotherham 10:30, 9 July 2009

On unfair electricity prices, I have been on my knees to my right hon. Friend's predecessors about industrial electricity prices. My right hon. Friend, as a south Yorkshire MP, will know of the devastation of job losses in the steel industry, caused in part by high electricity prices. Will he talk to EDF, which is a state-owned company, and if the company will not listen, will he talk to his opposite number in Paris, and ask them to agree the same tariff with Corus as exists in France or other European countries, so that greater hope can be given on the future of the steel industry in south Yorkshire?