Part of Planning and Infrastructure Bill – in the House of Commons at 7:30 pm on 9 June 2025.
Chris Curtis
Labour, Milton Keynes North
7:30,
9 June 2025
Hundreds of thousands of children will wake up tomorrow morning in temporary accommodation as a consequence of this, and millions of families will continue paying some of the highest energy Bills in the western world. When Russian tanks rolled into Europe, we were dangerously reliant on foreign oil and gas because our planning system consistently blocked the clean, home-grown energy generation that we so desperately need. I see some Liberal Democrat Members laughing. I note that, in many cases, it was their councils that blocked that energy infrastructure from being built.
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