<p>Questions Without Notice from the Party Leaders</p>

Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:48 pm on 22 November 2016.

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Photo of Carwyn Jones Carwyn Jones Labour 1:48, 22 November 2016

No. The issues is this: energy prices in Germany, for example, are around 20 per cent cheaper; in Spain, they’re 37 per cent cheaper. It’s nothing to do with renewables, because the amount of renewables that feed into their national grids is roughly the same in percentage terms as ours, if not more. It’s simply to do with the obscurity of the market within Great Britain and the fact that discounts are not available for energy-intensive industries. We have to look at nuclear, yes, but we also have to look at harnessing the power of the tide that sits not far from this building, and will always be there, rather than rely on imported coal, which I know is something that he has suggested in weeks gone by.