Spotlight: Tax free electricity, on track for Great British Rail and housing targets

ENERGY

📰 Thinktank tells Reeves – make electricity tax free | Energy Live News

✒️ Prime Minister arrives at COP to deliver clean energy jobs as major deals in ports and industry announced | Press release from Prime Minister’s Office and the Rt Hon Sir Keir Starmer KCB KC MP

✒️ UK COP30 Priorities written Ministerial Statement | Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

🗣️ Delivering the Energy Mission – progress to date and next steps | Speech from Michael Shanks MP

📰 Inside the UK’s most controversial power plant | Politico Europe

✒️ Study: Global renewables deployment proving 'far faster' than expected | Business Green

📰 UK energy sector profit margins 3x national average | Solar Power Portal

📰 Dogger Bank to deliver £6.1bn boost | ReNews

📰 WindEurope calls for new deal on offshore wind | ReNews

✒️ Renewable Energy: National Grid written question "what date they expect the National Grid to have sufficiently updated capacity to use or store the power available from renewable sources." | Department for Energy Security and Net Zero written question

✒️ Government consultations: RO scheme closing on 28 November 2025 and Fit scheme closing on 12 December 2025

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INFRASTRUCTURE

📰 Railways Bill laid in Parliament paving way to GBR | Rail UK

✒️ Rail reform and Great British Railways | Written statement to Parliament from Department for Transport and Rt Hon Heidi Alexander MP

📰 Suffolk residents protest ‘relentless infrastructure pressures’ from 7 NSIPs across county | New Civil Engineer (paywall)

📰 Think tank finds infrastructure ‘inadequately protected against sabotage and cyber threats’ | New Civil Engineer (paywall)

✒️ Integrated transport: The size of the prize for mayors | Report from Centre for Cities

🗣️ Infrastructure update: Strategies to boost resilience in the face of climate change | Simon Rawlinson, Head of Strategic Research and Insight at Arcadis UK

📰 Boom or bubble? Inside the $3tn AI datacentre spending spree | The Guardian

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DEVELOPMENT

📰 CEA says construction sector is “bracing” itself ahead of Autumn Budget | pbc today

🗣 RICS calls for bold reform by Chancellor to unlock sustainable growth | Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors

📰 Worries grow over Building Safety Regulator’s plan to clear gateway 2 backlog after building control firm collapses | Building (paywall)

📰 Completions rise at Barratt Redrow, firm says in update | Building (paywall)

✒️New towns: creating communities inquiry launched by Lords Built Environment Committee | Press release from Built Environment Committee

🗣Government support for housebuilding in London| Westminster Hall Debate

📰 MPs and peers back ‘essential’ planning reforms for older people’s housing | Inside Housing

✒️ The Planning Inspectorate’s CEO, Paul Morrison writes to The Minister of State, Matthew Pennycook MP in response to his letter of 9 October 2025 | Correspondence from Planning Inspectorate to Matthew Pennycook MP

🗣 Planning and Infrastructure Bill concludes Lords report stage | UK Parliament