Spotlight: Your weekly round-up of key developments in Parliament and the top stories in the Energy, Development and Infrastructure sectors

ENERGY

✒️ Clean energy future to be ‘built in Britain’ | Press release from Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Great British Energy, Ed Miliband MP

✒️ Fusion energy powers UK’s Industrial Strategy | Press release from UK Industrial Fusion Solutions, UK Atomic Energy Authority and Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

📰 UK Industrial Strategy: solar, storage ‘vital’ to clean energy mission | Solar Power Portal

📰 New frontier for UK offshore wind with leading developers set to deliver new generation of floating windfarms | The Crown Estate

📰 ‘UK can hit 2030 targets but must tackle power prices' | renews.biz

📰 ’UK inclined to reject zonal pricing plan’ | renews.biz

📰 UK can reach net zero by 2050, climate report finds | The Guardian

📰 Analysis: UK’s solar power surges 42% after sunniest spring on record | Carbon Brief

📰 Can hydropower keep the lights on? | Financial Times (paywall)

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INFRASTRUCTURE

✒️ Business leaders welcome the government’s modern Industrial Strategy | Press release from Department for Business and Trade

🗣️ UK Modern Industrial Strategy | Ministerial statement from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade

🗣️ Industrial Strategy - BTC Chair Liam Byrne comments | Statement from Rt Hon Liam Byrne Chair of the Business and Trade Committee

🗣️ Department for Transport debate | House of Commons debate

📰 Manchester will be the home of the Industrial Strategy | Business Live

📰 'Take East seriously', mayor warns government | BBC News

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DEVELOPMENT

✒️ A faster, more efficient planning appeals process | News story from Planning Inspectorate, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and Matthew Pennycook MP

🗣️ Planning and Infrastructure Bill - Second Reading | House of Lords debates

📰 National Housing Bank to drive 1.5 million homes target | Local Government Chronicle

📰 Government construction support must go further to deliver housing ambitions | PBC Today

📰 The authorities performing below government planning performance targets for speed of decision-making in 2024/25 | Planning Resource

📰 The councils that have had the most planning decisions later overturned at appeal | Planning Resource (paywall)

✒️ A faster, more efficient planning appeals process | News story from Planning Inspectorate, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and Matthew Pennycook MP

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