Today marks the start of Ofgem regulation of heat networks - protecting 500,000 consumers from unfair price hikes and providing powers to deal with poor service and outages. www.gov.uk/government/n...

Heat network customers to be shielded from unfair price hikes

Greater consumer protections introduced for heat network customers across Great Britain for the first time, supporting half a million consumers.

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Good jobs. Fair pay. Built in Britain. The Government’s Warm Homes Plan will support 180,000 clean heat & energy efficiency jobs by 2030, backed by a new Workforce Taskforce, co-convened with the TUC and including unions & industry.

Everyone can benefit from the Warm Homes Plan 🏠 We're leaving no household behind in our mission to cut bills, improve home energy efficiency and upgrade to clean technology. Here’s how 👇

We’ve just secured the largest amount of offshore wind in any auction ever in Britain - enough to power the equivalent of 12 million homes. In Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 the first offshore wind project in three years has been successful - a landmark moment demonstrating our commitment to the whole of the UK.

The message from Ed Miliband and I has been clear: energy suppliers should pass on every penny of the £150 savings to consumers this April. My update on their response ⬇️

This is where 19 years of SNP Government gets you. And this doesn’t take into account the many, many people who are cashing in their savings to go private because they can’t wait any more in pain.

“We only hear from them at election time” isn’t something I ever want to hear people say. That’s why we’re back out today for our first doorstep session of 2025.

Thanks @martinmccluskey.bsky.social for joining us at our MP drop in session yesterday at the UK Parliament to talk about our public debt work and #EndSchoolMealDebt campaign.

Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West MP @martinmccluskey.bsky.social was at our event in Parliament this week. Thanks for your support Martin!

My highlight of this week was getting to spend time with some of our area’s brilliant young people as part of UK Parliament Week. Thanks to pupils at St Mary’s, Port Glasgow High, St Columba’s and Clydeview for the great questions and discussions.

The prime minister says John Prescott was “a true giant of the Labour movement”

It’s UK Parliament Week. Looking forward to speaking at a number of schools (remotely and in person!) across the constituency this week. You can find more information about UK Parliament week here: ukparliamentweek.org