The system operated as intended with resilience confirmed by National Gas and NESO. The push towards renewables is necessary to reduce reliance on volatile fossil fuel markets.

Previous decisions by the Labour Government left us exposed. The only plan for resilience is the clean power action plan for 2030.

The Government inherited a system needing serious decisions for resilience. Steps include work on the warmer homes scheme to ensure insulated homes with heat pumps.

The Government are building a more resilient system to reduce bills, deliver energy security, and climate leadership.

The previous Government's decisions on gas storage sites and energy policy will have to be addressed. We are committed to building a future-proofed system through the clean power action plan, which includes significant investment in renewable technologies.

Yes, small modular reactors will play an important part in the future energy mix. We are moving forward with inherited projects and will make decisions to ensure robustness.

We are moving forward with major projects, including the small modular reactor competition. We need a robust process but will have more to say in due course.

We are looking at options for hydrogen in our energy mix, including its role in home heating and industrial projects. We need to ensure financial viability and technological feasibility before committing.

My hon. Friend is right. We have outlined our clean power plan, which will deliver a secure and resilient energy system of the future, bringing down bills while delivering on climate leadership.

We have announced a new cap-and-floor regime for long-duration energy storage, which will deliver pumped hydro schemes and innovative technologies. This is a significant step forward from previous Governments.

We are committed to reducing demand through moving away from gas to heat pumps, which is important for energy system resilience and bill reduction. We will also continue working on insulation measures.

We are committed to building a resilient system through clean power action plans, including investment in renewable technologies. We will continue engaging with oil and gas companies while moving towards future-proofed energy solutions.

I take issue with two of those points. First, in the past decade, 100,000 jobs have already been lost from the oil and gas industry, and that happened under a Government whom the hon. Gentleman supported. The industry is changing. We are putting in place a robust set of plans to help the workforce into the jobs of the future, rather than burying our heads in the sand and pretending that the basin in the North sea is not super-mature. Secondly, even if we were to extract more gas from our continental shelf, given that it is traded on an international market, and the pricing is set not by us but by the international market, we would continue to pay more for it, whether or not it came from the North sea, so that would not deal with the pricing issue reflected in the hon. Gentleman’s question.

The hon. Gentleman should reflect more broadly on our policies for dealing with the transition from fossil fuels and making sure that there is a robust system in place as we do so.

The hon. Lady makes a really important point about energy storage in its various forms. Battery storage technology is moving forward extraordinarily quickly, and the short duration that we can get from batteries is improving quite considerably, so batteries will have a key role to play. Importantly, there is the potential for communities to drive some of that. We have been really clear in our local power plan that we want communities to be in the driving seat as much as possible, so that they can secure community benefits. We also want them to own some of the infrastructure.

That is a very good question. We have moved forward as quickly as possible to deliver significant projects, but we have also moved forward the competition on small modular reactors.

That is a really important point. My hon. Friend the Minister for Energy Consumers is leading a review of some of this work, and will have more to say about it soon. We need a scheme that rolls out far more insulation to retrofit homes.

That is a really interesting question that I asked myself when I came into this role. Logically, we might assume so, but we do not empty the gas storage and then wait to refill it; we refill it constantly.

Characteristically, the hon. Gentleman raises an important point, and he has raised similar points with me before. It is important that the most vulnerable on the priority registers are prioritised for any additional support.