AN MP has failed in his attempt to stop taxpayer subsidies being handed out to wind farms.

Shipley MP Philip Davies said people want cheaper energy not green energy and said it was not fair his constituents, including those living in Menston and Burley-in-Wharfedale, are forced to pay extra on their bills to subsidise the green schemes.

He was backing an attempt by fellow Tory MP Peter Bone to abolish the subsidies.

In a Commons debate Mr Davies accused Labour of double-standards.

He said: “It is quite bizarre that the Labour Party on the one hand complain that energy bills are too high and yet at the same time they support this kind of energy which is putting up people’s energy bills unnecessarily.”

Households already pay an average of £45 a year to support low carbon power.

And according to the Committee on Climate Change it will rise to £100 in 2020 and £175 in 2030.

Mr Davies added: “The Labour leader who has campaigned on high energy bills and the cost of living crisis, was responsible for it as he set these increased energy bills in train when he was Energy Secretary and introduced the Climate Change Act.

“I want my constituents to have the cheapest energy, and not the greenest.

“They should not be forced to pay for something they do not want and which are a blight on the landscape.”

MPs voted 38 to seven against the Bill progressing further.