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Nick Clegg confirms green levies on energy bills under review Nick Clegg 'disagrees' with David Cameron on 'rolling back' green levies
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The government is examining whether some of its environmental policies can be delivered in a "more cost-effective way", Nick Clegg has said. The prime minister's announcement that he wanted to "roll back" green levies pushing up energy bills was unexpected, Nick Clegg has said.
PM David Cameron has said that energy bills are at "unacceptable levels" and promised to "roll back" green levies pushing them up. "It's not something that I fully agree with," the deputy prime minister told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
But the deputy prime minister insisted that the coalition's environmental objectives "remain clear and stable". The Lib Dem leader confirmed that the government was to look into whether its environmental policies could be delivered more cost-effectively.
They may be funded in future from taxes rather than green levies, he suggested.They may be funded in future from taxes rather than green levies, he suggested.
But he insisted that the coalition's environmental objectives "remain clear and stable".
"Of course the prime minister and I will do this in the weeks ahead, we will stress-test all these different levies," he said.
"If we can deliver those objectives of keeping the lights on, insulating people's homes helping the fuel-poor, supporting the green economy for less, of course I don't want to see an extra penny go on people's bills that is absolutely necessary."
But he added he did not agree with the idea of ending funding for measures looking "after the environment, securing thousands of jobs in the renewable green sector, and... giving deductions on people's fuel bills for two million of the poorest households in our country".
There was, he said, a "big argument" on energy policy, especially since Labour's announcement that it plans to cap energy bills if it wins the next general election.
"You've got an argument from Ed Miliband, and it is a con, by the way: his freeze would see prices go up, jobs go down, investment go down.
"And then you appear to have a new kind of theory emerging from the right of British politics, which says it is all the fault of us caring about the environment.
"I don't accept either of those propositions."
Mr Clegg also stressed that he was confident he and the prime minister could "resolve" their differences on the policy.Mr Clegg also stressed that he was confident he and the prime minister could "resolve" their differences on the policy.
The PM's announcement came at his weekly Commons question session on Wednesday.
"It wasn't something that I was fully expecting and it's not something that I fully agree with," Mr Clegg told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
"I don't agree with the premise that looking after the environment, securing thousands of jobs in the renewable green sector, and actually some of these levies are also used to give deductions on people's fuel bills for two million of the poorest households in our country."