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Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Bill

Debate on bills on Friday, 12 May 2006, in the House of Commons, led by Richard Ottaway. The answering member was Malcolm Wicks.
Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Bill. Order read for resuming adjourned debate from 17 March. Third reading debate. Agreed to on question. Passed.

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Reference

446 c601-66 

Session

2005-06

Legislative stage

Third reading

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

Roberta Blackman-Woods | 446 c624 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend. One of my reasons for highlighting that clause is that I believe that i...
Dawn Butler | 446 c624 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that clause 21 is vital for developing a low-carbon economy in the UK? It ...

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Colin Challen | 446 c626 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Nick Hurd | 446 c624-6 (Link to this contribution) I, too, rise to support the Bill, and I congratulate the hon. Member for Edinburgh, North and Leith ...
Anne Milton | 446 c622 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that if the public, industries and those undertaking research want a s...
Mike Weir | 446 c621-2 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a good point. I think that the Government need to give a signal. We all exp...
Roberta Blackman-Woods | 446 c623-4 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to put on record my support for the Bill. I thank my hon. Friend t...
Mike Weir | 446 c622-3 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is right. As I have said, it is easy in this place to talk and reach agreement on a cr...
Nick Hurd | 446 c626 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to give way to a fellow member of the Environmental Audit Committee.
Mark Pritchard | 446 c621 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that we can talk as much as we like about the potential of new technol...
Robert Smith | 446 c628 (Link to this contribution) After the hon. Lady’s exchange with the hon. Member for Bexhill and Battle (Gregory Barker), does sh...
Nia Griffith | 446 c628 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I should like to enlighten the hon. Gentleman: the Bill now contains ...
Speaker | 446 c628 (Link to this contribution) Order. Before the hon. Lady responds, may I tell her that we should be talking about the contents of...
Lord Barker of Battle | 446 c627-8 (Link to this contribution) I hear what the hon. Lady is saying about subsidy, but does she accept that a much more effective wa...
Nia Griffith | 446 c627 (Link to this contribution) I agree absolutely. The key point is that we need to put in subsidy now in order to make the market ...
Alison Seabeck | 446 c627 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend mentioned improving access to microgeneration equipment. Does she accept that until s...
Nia Griffith | 446 c627 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh, North and Leith (Mark Lazarowicz) not only o...
Colin Challen | 446 c626 (Link to this contribution) I indeed have the pleasure of serving with the hon. Gentleman on the Environmental Audit Committee. ...
Nick Hurd | 446 c626 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for making an extremely valuable point that I had not thought of. The po...
Anne Milton | 446 c616-7 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps my hon. Friend will join me in congratulating Guildford borough council in my constituency? ...
Brooks Newmark | 446 c617 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I can make a bold statement and encourage the new leader of my hon. Friend’s council to visi...
Maria Miller | 446 c617 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an excellent point. As a Hampshire Member of Parliament, I am not as familiar w...
Helen Goodman | 446 c618 (Link to this contribution) I, too, am very sorry that my hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh, North and Leith (Mark Lazarowicz...
Maria Miller | 446 c617 (Link to this contribution) I will, of course, bring that to the attention of the leader of the council. I am very pleased to be...
Helen Goodman | 446 c618 (Link to this contribution) I am not aware of those statistics. I must say that I am slightly sceptical about them, given our ex...
Christopher Chope | 446 c618 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady says that people will act, but is sheaware that under her Government, according to a G...
Helen Goodman | 446 c619 (Link to this contribution) It is true that there are problems due to the charges of several of the intermediaries, but I will n...
Dawn Butler | 446 c618 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that part of the reason for fuel poverty is that the fuel companies are ov...
Mohammad Sarwar | 446 c619 (Link to this contribution) Our constituents are extremely worried about the impact that climate change can have on communities ...
Maria Miller | 446 c619 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady talks about taking more action. Does she agree that we should take additional action o...
Helen Goodman | 446 c619 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend anticipates one of my points. It is important that we take action and set a good exam...
Mike Weir | 446 c621 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has given a graphic demonstration of the problem. There are communities throughou...
Mohammad Sarwar | 446 c620-1 (Link to this contribution) I know that the hon. Gentleman is a strong advocate of renewable energy. Applications are submitted ...
Mike Weir | 446 c620 (Link to this contribution) On behalf of the Scottish National party and Plaid Cymru, I offer our condolences to the hon. Member...
Helen Goodman | 446 c620 (Link to this contribution) Ultimately, climate change is a justice issue between the rich and the poor and between us and futur...
Chris Huhne | 446 c638-40 (Link to this contribution) I fully appreciate that point and am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for making it. However, I have n...
Speaker | 446 c636 (Link to this contribution) Order. I counsel the hon. Gentleman not to be tempted too far away from the content of the Bill.
Shailesh Vara | 446 c636-8 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend, who makes a very valid point. Indeed, one such centre of excellence...
Greg Clark | 446 c634-5 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend. I completely agree that we should not be put off by the cost. If we...
Anne Milton | 446 c633-4 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that cost is absolutely crucial in getting widespread take-up of these tec...
Michael Gove | 446 c636 (Link to this contribution) I admire my hon. Friend for making this very important point about centres of academic and scientifi...
Shailesh Vara | 446 c635 (Link to this contribution) May I first congratulate the hon. Member for Edinburgh, North and Leith (Mark Lazarowicz) on introdu...
Greg Clark | 446 c633 (Link to this contribution) My information is that it cost in the order of £15,000. However, one of the features of new technolo...
Brooks Newmark | 446 c644-5 (Link to this contribution) I reflect again on the speech made by the hon. Member for Blaydon (Mr. Anderson). We have a huge sup...
Michael Gove | 446 c645 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point. I know that he has a long-term commitment to the north-east...
Michael Gove | 446 c644 (Link to this contribution) Like many Conservative Members and, indeed, hon. Members on both sides of the House, I welcome the B...
Andrew Selous | 446 c641-3 (Link to this contribution) The vast mass of the scientific evidence is that carbon emissions produced from buildings and transp...
Andrew Selous | 446 c641 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for mentioning the horn of Africa, because I was briefly going t...
Martin Horwood | 446 c641 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has made an important point. Does he agree that climate change may well have cont...
Andrew Selous | 446 c640-1 (Link to this contribution) I, too, pass on my condolences to the hon. Member for Edinburgh, North and Leith (Mark Lazarowicz) o...
Nia Griffith | 446 c629 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the hon. Gentleman will accept that the provision is at least a step in the right direct...
Martin Horwood | 446 c629-30 (Link to this contribution) I, too, extend my sympathies to the hon. Member for Edinburgh, North and Leith (Mark Lazarowicz); I ...
Robert Smith | 446 c630 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend recognise that the loss of the renewable heat obligation will also damage the in...
Martin Horwood | 446 c630 (Link to this contribution) Yes; biomass remains an area that needs to be explored more fully. Some hon. Members are inclined t...
Dawn Butler | 446 c630 (Link to this contribution) Does clause 21 cover some of the areas to which the hon. Gentleman has referred? It states that the ...
Martin Horwood | 446 c630-1 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure whether it does. The hon. Lady has drawn attention to the very clause that originally ...
Nia Griffith | 446 c628 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely; that is why it is so important that we have pledged another £50 million to taking a step...
Nia Griffith | 446 c628 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for finding the right clause.
Alan Whitehead | 446 c628 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend may be aware that clause 11 entails adding to the building regulations a particular c...
Greg Clark | 446 c632-3 (Link to this contribution) I start by adding my condolences to the hon. Member for Edinburgh, North and Leith (Mark Lazarowicz)...
Michael Gove | 446 c633 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for pointing out the contribution that the sun can make to helping u...
Martin Horwood | 446 c632 (Link to this contribution) Okay. Obviously, global warming will continue for several decades. The question is really what we do...
Greg Clark | 446 c633 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend the shadow housing Minister, and delighted to have his support. He i...
Andrew Selous | 446 c633 (Link to this contribution) Is my hon. Friend aware of roughly how much Mr. Norris’s solar panel installation cost, so that we c...
Martin Horwood | 446 c631 (Link to this contribution) I am not aware of that particular report. If it is dated 2007, that is interesting, because it appea...
Christopher Chope | 446 c631 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman aware of the recently produced Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2007 ...
Martin Horwood | 446 c631 (Link to this contribution) Sceptic, on this occasion. I found a good commercial case from the Association of British Insurers, ...
Speaker | 446 c649 (Link to this contribution) Order. Having had that point clarified, perhaps the hon. Gentleman will look at the content of the B...
Christopher Chope | 446 c649 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely, Madam Deputy Speaker. I shall move on to that subject straight away, which means that I ...
Chris Huhne | 446 c650 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is undoubtedly right that some glaciers have extended and some have retreated. Ho...
Christopher Chope | 446 c648 (Link to this contribution) Following that long intervention, I hope to have the chance to refer to issues such as those that th...
Lord Barker of Battle | 446 c648 (Link to this contribution) Nigel Lawson was a great reforming and pioneering Chancellor of the Exchequer who did many great thi...
Christopher Chope | 446 c649 (Link to this contribution) Our right hon. and noble Friend Lord Lawson has experience as not only Chancellor of the Exchequer b...
Lord Barker of Battle | 446 c649 (Link to this contribution) I will deal specifically with my hon. Friend’s point in my winding-up speech. My right hon. Friend t...
Michael Gove | 446 c647 (Link to this contribution) Yes, it has. During the general election campaign, and in the course of carrying out my duties as a ...
Martin Horwood | 446 c647 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman seemsto be questioning the commitment of some members of his party to transport d...
Michael Gove | 446 c646-7 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. One reason for the resistance to new development is that people re...
Malcolm Wicks | 446 c647 (Link to this contribution) I am following the hon. Gentleman’s argument with great interest. He seems to be putting forward a h...
Michael Gove | 446 c645-6 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point. The Minister with responsibilities for energy is in his pla...
Speaker | 446 c646 (Link to this contribution) Order. Will the hon. Gentleman now relate his remarks to the contents of the Bill?
Brooks Newmark | 446 c645 (Link to this contribution) As Members may or may not be aware, there is the threat by UK Coal to shut down 70 to 75 per cent. o...
Chris Huhne | 446 c648 (Link to this contribution) I find the hon. Gentleman’s remarkson the weight of scientific evidence slightly curious, given that...
Christopher Chope | 446 c648 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Surrey Heath (Michael Gove), with whom I ag...
Michael Gove | 446 c647-8 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman tempts me, literally, to go down a road that I have not travelled before. As I am...
Diana Johnson | 446 c604 (Link to this contribution) My constituency has a major school building programme. Will the Bill cover the installation of micro...
David Hamilton | 446 c604 (Link to this contribution) I have spoken to the House Builders Association, and it would not object if planning legislation wer...
Celia Barlow | 446 c604 (Link to this contribution) We accepted evidence from several house building organisations. They are willing to put such provisi...
Peter Ainsworth | 446 c603-4 (Link to this contribution) I know that the hon. Lady plays a distinguished part in the proceedings of the Committee, and she is...
Celia Barlow | 446 c604 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman is aware, the Committee—which he chaired until his recent promotion, on which ...
Celia Barlow | 446 c602-3 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman makes avalid point. However, the targets for cutting carbon emissions are s...
John Redwood | 446 c602 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady agree that it is all very well setting targets, but if the Government do not take...
Celia Barlow | 446 c602 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh, North and Leith (Mark Lazarowicz) on introdu...
Richard Ottaway | 446 c601-2 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that we all miss my right hon. Friend the Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Mr. Forth) a...
Brooks Newmark | 446 c611 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is right. The problem of fuel poverty has been exacerbated by the increase in energy p...
Ann McKechin | 446 c611 (Link to this contribution) I remind the hon. Gentleman that we have retained the winter fuel payment, which is specifically des...
Brooks Newmark | 446 c611 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady makes an extremely valid point. However, the winter fuel payment did not increase subs...
Speaker | 446 c611 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman should not pursue that point too far.
David Anderson | 446 c608-9 (Link to this contribution) I certainly accept that the Government should play a major role, but I am not too sure whether they ...
Brooks Newmark | 446 c609-10 (Link to this contribution) I, too, wish my right hon. Friend the Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Mr. Forth) a speedy recove...
Ann McKechin | 446 c610-1 (Link to this contribution) I, too, extend my sympathies to my hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh, North and Leith (Mark Lazar...
James Duddridge | 446 c612 (Link to this contribution) This is a significant cross-cutting issue, so does it not merit a Cabinet Minister for climate chang...
Ann McKechin | 446 c611 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I am pleased to say that in Glasgow there was a zero increase in coun...
Speaker | 446 c612 (Link to this contribution) Order. That is another road that we will not go down.
John Barrett | 446 c606-7 (Link to this contribution) Our thoughts are with the hon. Member for Edinburgh, North and Leith (Mark Lazarowicz) at this time....
Celia Barlow | 446 c605 (Link to this contribution) In my constituency, not all new homes are built in back gardens. In the report, the Committee expre...
Celia Barlow | 446 c604-5 (Link to this contribution) The Bill does address the issue, butit would only assist my hon. Friend in promotingthe installation...
Mohammad Sarwar | 446 c608 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point. We have huge coal reserves in this country; unfortunately, they a...
David Anderson | 446 c608 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman. I agree entirely, and he has mentioned one of the things that I want to ...
Brooks Newmark | 446 c608 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an excellent point. In the Science and Technology Committee we have been do...
David Anderson | 446 c607-8 (Link to this contribution) I associate myself with the comments made by the hon. Member for Edinburgh, West (John Barrett) abou...
Maria Miller | 446 c614-5 (Link to this contribution) I agree, but I was about to come on to the fact that there is an awful lot that we could all do now....
Brooks Newmark | 446 c615 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Part of the process of reducing demand is to ensure that new hou...
Maria Miller | 446 c615-6 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an excellent point. I would like to look at some of the other aspects of house ...
Anne Milton | 446 c616 (Link to this contribution) As I know that my hon. Friend is a parent, perhaps she will join me in saying that one thing that we...
Maria Miller | 446 c616 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an excellent point. A point was made earlier about the issue of stand-by. Under...
Roberta Blackman-Woods | 446 c616 (Link to this contribution) I wonder whether the hon. Lady would accept that the Government are doing quite a lot to encourage i...
Maria Miller | 446 c616 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady makes an excellent point. I am a great supporter of that scheme in my constituency. Ho...
Mohammad Sarwar | 446 c616 (Link to this contribution) Everybody in the House acknowledges that local authorities can play a major role in saving energy by...
Anne Milton | 446 c614 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is being most generous in giving way. On the subject of local authorities, does she a...
Maria Miller | 446 c616 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a good point. I will leave it to hon. Members as to whether they wish to fo...
Maria Miller | 446 c613 (Link to this contribution) I am particularly pleased to be called to speak on the Bill, because it does an awful lot to make us...
Ann McKechin | 446 c612 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. The hon. Gentleman will be aware that the Deputy Prime Minister has r...
Robert Smith | 446 c612 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is making a thoughtful speech on the impact of the Bill, whose measures many of our co...
Alison Seabeck | 446 c614 (Link to this contribution) To pick up on the hon. Lady’s point about local authorities and planning changes, the relaxation of ...
Maria Miller | 446 c614 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady makes an excellent point. The Bill works in many ways to give local authorities far mo...
Anne Milton | 446 c613 (Link to this contribution) The Bill goes some way to making us all more accountable, but does my hon. Friend not agree that it ...
Maria Miller | 446 c613-4 (Link to this contribution) I could not agree more with my hon. Friend. All too often the perception among my constituents and t...
Maria Miller | 446 c614 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an excellent point, and perhaps I can illustrate why I support what he says wit...
Brooks Newmark | 446 c614 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend not agree that many microgeneration projects are becoming almost economically vi...
Christopher Chope | 446 c651 (Link to this contribution) If I recollect correctly, Report started on 17 March and we did not move on to Third Reading until 2...
Michael Gove | 446 c651 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making it admirably clear that he is sceptical about the scientific consensus on t...
Christopher Chope | 446 c650-1 (Link to this contribution) The model is based on an heroic hypothesis, to quote a phrase used by the Minister. Another change ...
Alan Whitehead | 446 c651 (Link to this contribution) I suspect the hon. Gentleman’s science, as well as his geography. He is also wrong about the date of...
Christopher Chope | 446 c650 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way to the hon. Member for Cheltenham (Martin Horwood), who has attacked my right hon. ...
Martin Horwood | 446 c650 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman seems to be very dismissive of some of the climate change models that attribute a...
Christopher Chope | 446 c652-3 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman obviously bases that moral imperative upon his reading of the science. I remind h...
Malcolm Wicks | 446 c653 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to spend a lot of time correcting the hon. Gentleman, but I should point out that the ...
David Howarth | 446 c652 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman accept the moral principle that one should act in such a way that if everyon...
Lord Barker of Battle | 446 c656-60 (Link to this contribution) I am aware that Woking has a long history of no overall control and that the leadership has ebbed an...
Christopher Chope | 446 c660 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend accept that the figures that he has just quoted, which originally emanated from ...
Lord Barker of Battle | 446 c660 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that I have not seen those figures. Given the reliability of some of my hon. Friend’s ot...
Speaker | 446 c660 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman’s comments are very interesting, but they are more relevant to a Second Re...
Christopher Chope | 446 c653-5 (Link to this contribution) Exactly—the Bill does not set the price, but it enables the Government to do so, which is my worry. ...
Lord Barker of Battle | 446 c655-6 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry that the debate has finished on that rather disconsolate note. I could not disagree more ...
Lord Barker of Battle | 446 c660-1 (Link to this contribution) I take your point entirely, Madam Deputy Speaker. The issue is the time scale and the fact that the ...
Speaker | 446 c661 (Link to this contribution) Order. I remind the hon. Gentleman that, at this stage, we are discussing what is included in the Bi...
Lord Barker of Battle | 446 c661-2 (Link to this contribution) I stand corrected. John Duggan believed that the Government were not filling that void. I am glad to...
Lord Barker of Battle | 446 c662-3 (Link to this contribution) I stand corrected, Madam Deputy Speaker, so I will not mention the trials and tribulations of Cambri...
Speaker | 446 c662 (Link to this contribution) Order. May I remind the hon. Gentleman that on Third Reading we are discussing the contents of the B...
Alan Whitehead | 446 c664 (Link to this contribution) May I join the many hon. Members who have spoken in the debate in expressing my condolences to my ho...
Malcolm Wicks | 446 c663-4 (Link to this contribution) To give other hon. Members a chance to participate in the debate, and in the interests of energy eff...
Alan Whitehead | 446 c664-6 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. The number of provisions in the Bill has expanded, and I am grateful to my hon. Friend the ...
Christopher Chope | 446 c650 (Link to this contribution) Again, the hon. Gentleman has made an assertion based on the work of the intergovernmental panel on ...
Martin Horwood | 446 c656 (Link to this contribution) The speech to which the hon. Gentleman has just referred also made a slightly erroneous reference in...
Helen Goodman | 446 c619 (Link to this contribution) As it happens, I am a member of the Standing Committee that is considering the Finance (No.2) Bill. ...
Chris Huhne | 446 c638 (Link to this contribution) I, too, extend my condolences to the hon. Member for Edinburgh, North and Leith (Mark Lazarowicz) an...
Lord Barker of Battle | 446 c628 (Link to this contribution) For clarification, I may say that the amendment that has been made to the Bill is permissive. It all...
Ann McKechin | 446 c612-3 (Link to this contribution) I fully accept that important argument. Consumers need to be confident that new technology will work...
Christopher Chope | 446 c651-2 (Link to this contribution) Certainly, I shall not be objecting to the Bill’s Third Reading; nor will I seek to take up so much ...
Speaker | 446 c620 (Link to this contribution) Order. I appreciate that it is not the hon. Lady’s fault that she has been led astray, but perhaps s...
Mike Weir | 446 c621 (Link to this contribution) That is correct. The issue is not confined to wind power. The hon. Member for Blaydon (Mr. Anderson...
Christopher Chope | 446 c638 (Link to this contribution) Does not the hon. Gentleman understand that as my right hon. Friend the Member for Bromley and Chisl...
Andrew Selous | 446 c643 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure when the hon. Lady became a Member, and perhaps hon. Members have different generation...
Christopher Chope | 446 c641 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend refers to climate change, but is he asserting that it is all the result of man-made c...
Celia Barlow | 446 c605-6 (Link to this contribution) I am anxious to make progress. We need clear guidance to introduce strong standards for sustainable...
Greg Clark | 446 c605 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady agree that it is not environmentally sustainable for all those new homes to be bu...
Pete Wishart | 446 c621 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that we need a proper and effective planning process for wind farm applica...
Diana Johnson | 446 c643 (Link to this contribution) I have managed to turn off the television in my office—there is actually an on-off button. I am surp...
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