"Of course in BEIS [business department] we want to spending more on our individual policies....but in total we're very satisfied with the amounts we've received today", business minister Lord Callanan tells @maitlis on @BBCNewsnight
Lord Callanan on the decision not to announce ban on new gas boiler sales: "It's our ambition to phase gas boilers out from 2035...but we want to make sure the alternatives are in place first"
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On support for steel sector amid the energy price crisis: "Clearly we want to look after these industries as much as we possibly can...I'll leave [colleagues at BEIS and Treasury] to announce the result of any discussion"
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...Lord Callanan on the £450m for heat pump subsidies, widely criticised by analysts as too small to hit 600,000 a year government target:
"This is about pump priming. This is about a little bit of public investment leveraging a lot of private investment."
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"This is about pump priming. This is about a little bit of public investment leveraging a lot of private investment."
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