Claire Perry attends first meeting of the Energy Bill Committee

The next few weeks following the 7th June have been dominated by my participation in the Energy Bill Committee. Every piece of legislation goes through this scrutiny process where a group of MPs reviews every part of the Bill and debates and amends the legislation as appropriate – with "mini votes" taking place in the Committee rooms if consensus can't be reached. Luckily the Energy Bill has strong cross party support and will mean for the first time that it will both make economic sense and be very easy for every household in Britain to install energy saving measures as part of the new Green Deal – although I would like more to be done to make water saving measures part of the package.

Energy Bill Update

The Energy Bill Committee continues to occupy most of my Westminster time but it is an oddly uplifting experience. Give or take the odd outbreak of truncheon waving, the group of MPs on the Committee has put "Punch and Judy" politics on hold while we focus on getting this important legislation right. The Minister is listening, members are contributing based on knowledge or interests rather than party affiliation and I think we will have a very good Bill as a result. If only all politics could be this way...

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