6. Plaid Cymru Debate: Establishing a Publicly Owned Energy Company

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 4:14 pm on 6 June 2018.

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Photo of David Melding David Melding Conservative 4:14, 6 June 2018

As we heard, they are moving to a mixed system—more state intervention, but not excluding the private sector. I'm happy to look at the models that work, and as an empirical Tory, I can see no other policy being appropriate than one that is seen to work in practice. As I said, I'm for reform and I think that indicates that the current model dominated by the six giants is not delivering the level of efficiency, competition and fair prices that we would need.

I'm already out of time, but I think you'll perhaps—