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Energy Bill

Debate on bills on Tuesday, 22 January 2008, in the House of Commons, led by Lord Hutton of Furness. The answering member was Alan Duncan.
Energy Bill. Second reading debate. Agreed to on question and committed to a Public Bill Committee. Programme motion on proceedings in Committee, Report stage, Third reading and other proceedings agreed to on division (274 to 85). Money resolution agreed to on question. Ways and means resolution agreed to on question.

About these Parliamentary proceedings

Reference

470 c1361-469 

Session

2007-08

Department

Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform

Legislative stage

Second reading

Procedure

Programme motions
Money resolutions
Ways and means resolutions

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

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Proceeding contributions

Speaker | 470 c1431 (Link to this contribution) Order. I hope I shall be forgiven, particularly by the hon. Gentleman, for what I am about to do, bu...
Speaker | 470 c1388 (Link to this contribution) Order. May I remind all right hon. and hon. Members that Mr. Speaker has imposed an eight-minute lim...

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Lord Hutton of Furness | 470 c1361-2 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure what point the hon. Gentleman is trying to make. I do not regard his comments as criti...
Stephen Crabb | 470 c1361 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Secretary of State for giving way so early in his speech. On decisive action, w...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 470 c1362 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I intend to make that point, which my hon. Friend is anxious for me to make, in a few moments. ...
John Robertson | 470 c1362 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for giving way. It is not like me to interrupt him so early in his spee...
David Heathcoat-Amory | 470 c1362 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Secretary of State for giving way. He may know that an application for a wind f...
Colin Challen | 470 c1364 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend might have seen the National Audit Office report on energy consumption on the G...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 470 c1364 (Link to this contribution) These are matters that we are currently looking at very carefully. The Office of Climate Change is l...
Alan Simpson | 470 c1364-5 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State will know that the Prime Minister has committed the UK to meeting the EU targ...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 470 c1364 (Link to this contribution) There are no provisions in the Bill about the issue that my hon. Friend has raised. If he is asking ...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 470 c1365 (Link to this contribution) There are parts of the Bill that address that concern, but I simply have not been able yet to reach ...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 470 c1366 (Link to this contribution) I consider that a thoroughly miserable intervention from a member of a party that has absolutely did...
Stewart Hosie | 470 c1366 (Link to this contribution) On the issue of carbon capture and storage and the much vaunted competition, first announced in 2005...
Martin Horwood | 470 c1367 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State's rather dismissive reply to the hon. Member for Dundee, East (Stewart Hosie)...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 470 c1367 (Link to this contribution) I do not accept that either. The whole point of what we are doing is organising proper competition. ...
Adam Ingram | 470 c1367 (Link to this contribution) Let me try to help my right hon. Friend in raising a key issue for Scotland. Under the levy requirem...
Lord Bellingham | 470 c1362-3 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Secretary of State for giving way—he is obviously in a benign and helpful mood....
Lord Hutton of Furness | 470 c1362 (Link to this contribution) I will, Henry—[Laughter.] I meant Hooray Henry, of course.
Lord Bellingham | 470 c1362 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Lord Hutton of Furness | 470 c1362 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for making that intervention. I have a strong feeling, how...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 470 c1363 (Link to this contribution) I have a great deal of sympathy for my hon. Friend's point. On the issue of nuclear, which I shall c...
Tony Lloyd | 470 c1363 (Link to this contribution) The previous two interventions illustrate exactly the problem that my right hon. Friend faces: every...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 470 c1363 (Link to this contribution) I think that there will be an increasing move towards offshore wind generation, which would be a goo...
Elliot Morley | 470 c1363 (Link to this contribution) I certainly agree with my right hon. Friend that we must look at the whole range of alternative and ...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 470 c1364 (Link to this contribution) We have announced proposals, of which my right hon. Friend will be aware, on microgeneration and on ...
Michael Jack | 470 c1364 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State referred to the challenge of the announcement tomorrow from the European Unio...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 470 c1369 (Link to this contribution) The banding proposals that I mentioned for microgeneration will help, and the reforms of the renewab...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 470 c1369 (Link to this contribution) The principal focus is on getting to the point where the EU sources 20 per cent. of its energy from ...
Kali Mountford | 470 c1369 (Link to this contribution) I know that my right hon. Friend is aware that communities in my constituency are keen for changes t...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 470 c1368 (Link to this contribution) Oh dear, oh dear. I think we have returned to the mood created by the hon. Member for Dundee, East (...
Colin Challen | 470 c1368-9 (Link to this contribution) Stories are circulating that the EU might announce tomorrow that there will be a renewables trading ...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 470 c1367-8 (Link to this contribution) I will gladly raise that question with Scottish Ministers, and I am sure that I will have my right h...
Steve Webb | 470 c1368 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State has rightly praised Government clarity and consistency as a way of raising re...
Stephen Ladyman | 470 c1417 (Link to this contribution) It is right that the Bill makes the nuclear industry internalise all the costs of nuclear energy. Ho...
Paddy Tipping | 470 c1416 (Link to this contribution) Of course we could, and it is important, as my hon. Friend the Member for Nottingham, South (Alan Si...
Michael Jack | 470 c1416 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that it is amazing that a country such as Italy has rolled out smart m...
Paddy Tipping | 470 c1416-7 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is a distinguished commentator on the coal industry, and he is clearly correct. Coal ...
Michael Clapham | 470 c1416 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that another technology needs to be exploited—underground gasification? As...
Bob Spink | 470 c1414 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend accept that the Nuclear Industry Association acknowledges that the private...
Paddy Tipping | 470 c1415-6 (Link to this contribution) The two drivers of energy policy have traditionally been security of supply and the challenge of cli...
Michael Jack | 470 c1414-5 (Link to this contribution) I accept it in principle. We touched on the definition of ““all”” earlier in the debate, and the Gov...
Michael Clapham | 470 c1424-6 (Link to this contribution) I want to make two main points in the brief time that I have tonight. One is on energy policy, and I...
David Heath | 470 c1422-4 (Link to this contribution) I wonder whether the hon. Member for Copeland (Mr. Reed) thinks that nuclear reactors are more or le...
Jamie Reed | 470 c1422 (Link to this contribution) I will not give way, as I have only 15 seconds left. The final issue is to do with public health. I...
Jamie Reed | 470 c1420-2 (Link to this contribution) I begin by declaring an interest as the Member of Parliament for Sellafield or, perhaps more accurat...
Anne Main | 470 c1418-20 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a valuable point. People need not only access to the internet but to be savvy e...
Robert Goodwill | 470 c1418 (Link to this contribution) Is it not the case that the families to whom my hon. Friend refers are also the sort of people who d...
Anne Main | 470 c1417-8 (Link to this contribution) I declare an interest, in that my husband has undertaken some IT consultancy work for Utilita, a sma...
Stephen Crabb | 470 c1429-31 (Link to this contribution) I intend to focus on some of the provisions that are actually in the Bill, particularly those dealin...
Colin Challen | 470 c1432 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I feel a little relieved about that, as I have intervened quite a lot...
Jamie Reed | 470 c1427 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman aware that a senior scientist at the United Nations recently described the set...
Linda Riordan | 470 c1428-9 (Link to this contribution) I want to make some points about fuel poverty, which will be similar to those made by my hon. Friend...
Peter Bone | 470 c1427-8 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that intervention, which again shows that sustainability is the crux of the matter...
Linda Riordan | 470 c1429 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I did. I am glad that my hon. Friend has raised that issue, because it is important.
Michael Clapham | 470 c1429 (Link to this contribution) Did my hon. Friend see a report in The Sunday Times a week ago last Sunday, which alleged that six e...
Linda Riordan | 470 c1429 (Link to this contribution) It is absolutely obscene, and our Government must do something about it. What message does it send t...
Alan Simpson | 470 c1429 (Link to this contribution) Did my hon. Friend also see the Energywatch report on social tariffs? It claimed that, at best, Brit...
Colin Challen | 470 c1432-3 (Link to this contribution) I will certainly obey that instruction, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I disagree with what the hon. Gentleman...
Speaker | 470 c1432 (Link to this contribution) Order. May I just say that the move I have made will be considerably undermined if every Member take...
Peter Bone | 470 c1432 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that more Labour Members are present because there is division within ...
Colin Challen | 470 c1433 (Link to this contribution) Someone is taking up the challenge. I bet my hon. Friend one day's pay—we will vote for a higher inc...
Peter Luff | 470 c1396 (Link to this contribution) As the Select Committee Chairman, I try to be open-minded and even-handed, but the hon. Gentleman wo...
Steve Webb | 470 c1396-7 (Link to this contribution) Two questions arise from that intervention. First, if the technological problems of waste disposal h...
Colin Challen | 470 c1397 (Link to this contribution) The nuclear lobby seems relatively strong in the Chamber this afternoon, but does the hon. Gentleman...
Steve Webb | 470 c1395 (Link to this contribution) I am more than happy to give way if the Secretary of State wants me to. He said that he had made the...
Geoffrey Robinson | 470 c1396 (Link to this contribution) May I help the hon. Gentleman? It seems to me that as the technology stands, if no nuclear technolog...
David Chaytor | 470 c1396 (Link to this contribution) If we are discussing plan B—leaving aside electricity generation and considering total energy use—it...
Steve Webb | 470 c1397-9 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a good point, and it is one that I plan to come on to. The Secretary of St...
Michael Meacher | 470 c1399-400 (Link to this contribution) I want to put forward a rather different case from that made by Government and Opposition Front Benc...
David Leslie Taylor | 470 c1400 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is talking about risks and hazards. Does he agree that my right hon. Friend the...
Peter Luff | 470 c1404 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way to my former colleague on the Committee.
Peter Luff | 470 c1402-4 (Link to this contribution) What is intriguing about the debate so far is how little of it has related directly to the Energy Bi...
Michael Meacher | 470 c1401-2 (Link to this contribution) Nuclear has been around for 50 or 60 years, so there have been plenty of opportunities to find a sat...
Michael Meacher | 470 c1400-1 (Link to this contribution) The source is absolutely impeccable. The truth is that one can touch on only a few items in eight mi...
Laurence Robertson | 470 c1401 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Morley and Rothwell (Colin Challen) mentioned Finland and said that the waste ha...
Peter Luff | 470 c1404-5 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to endorse that observation, as the problems remains a key issue in the future of our ene...
Albert Owen | 470 c1405-6 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to follow the Chairman of the Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Comm...
Colin Challen | 470 c1406 (Link to this contribution) Another great institution in Wales is the Centre for Alternative Technology. Has my hon. Friend had ...
Albert Owen | 470 c1406-7 (Link to this contribution) I should be interested to receive that report. I have visited the centre. Indeed, its members gave e...
Laurence Robertson | 470 c1408 (Link to this contribution) I endorse everything that I have just heard from the hon. Member for Ynys Môn (Albert Owen), who mad...
Alan Whitehead | 470 c1408 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman compares the amount of generating capacity at 70 per cent. capacity value from...
Laurence Robertson | 470 c1408-10 (Link to this contribution) I am a firm believer in renewables. If we have renewables and a nuclear industry, we will be going p...
Stephen Ladyman | 470 c1410 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to take part in this debate and to follow the hon. Member for Tewkesbury (Mr. Rober...
Martin Horwood | 470 c1411 (Link to this contribution) May I offer the hon. Gentleman a more reliable quote from 2006? Along with 40 other leading climate ...
Colin Challen | 470 c1411 (Link to this contribution) Patrick Moore's name was called in aid last week, during the statement. Somebody kindly sent me a co...
Stephen Ladyman | 470 c1411 (Link to this contribution) It will have to be very brief, because I do not get any more injury time.
Jamie Reed | 470 c1411 (Link to this contribution) Very briefly, does my hon. Friend share my dismay at the fact that every time an eminent scientist c...
Stephen Ladyman | 470 c1411 (Link to this contribution) I certainly agree that nuclear can be only a little part of the solution and that it is too late. Te...
Stephen Ladyman | 470 c1411 (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely. The dogma exists because people do not regard nuclear power as safe. They still ha...
Stewart Hosie | 470 c1395 (Link to this contribution) Is not the myth that the Government are peddling based on the argument that the new energy policy is...
Steve Webb | 470 c1395 (Link to this contribution) If the other policies—greater energy efficiency, greater energy conservation and more encouragement ...
Steve Webb | 470 c1394 (Link to this contribution) I notice that the Secretary of State's irritation is in direct proportion to the pertinence of our p...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 470 c1394 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is coming out with the usual sort of soundbites masquerading as an energy policy....
Steve Webb | 470 c1394-5 (Link to this contribution) No, because new nuclear power is a one-way track. We cannot decide in 10 or 15 years' time that it w...
John Robertson | 470 c1394 (Link to this contribution) I understand the point that the hon. Gentleman is trying to make. The Government's point—the whole i...
Steve Webb | 470 c1393 (Link to this contribution) As I have said to the Secretary of State, our strategy is for a breadth of input, including renewabl...
Jamie Reed | 470 c1393 (Link to this contribution) Would the hon. Gentleman like our nuclear generating capacity to be replaced by renewable generating...
Steve Webb | 470 c1394 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right. However, the environmental impact of a barrage has not changed substant...
Paddy Tipping | 470 c1393 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman not think it important that we examine seriously the environmental concerns ...
Michael Jack | 470 c1384 (Link to this contribution) In concurring with my hon. Friend's observations about the lengthy process through which the Governm...
Alan Duncan | 470 c1383-4 (Link to this contribution) I say ““Hear, hear”” to that. We are doing our best to help to facilitate investment in nuclear, but...
Martin Horwood | 470 c1384 (Link to this contribution) I am confused by the hon. Gentleman's position. He rightly argues that there are enormous problems w...
Alan Duncan | 470 c1384 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is absolutely right that it is feasible, but if nuclear power companies are to ...
Alan Duncan | 470 c1384 (Link to this contribution) Let us have a free-for-all. The hon. Member for Copeland (Mr. Reed) has a special interest in the ma...
Alan Duncan | 470 c1384 (Link to this contribution) If the economics is totally known, the answer is yes. In that sense, our policy is similar to the Go...
Alan Duncan | 470 c1385 (Link to this contribution) I take it for the moment that the hon. Gentleman agrees with me, but I did not quite understand his ...
Jamie Reed | 470 c1384 (Link to this contribution) Surely the right hon. Member for Fylde (Mr. Jack) is right. The costs of interim storage and disposa...
Alan Duncan | 470 c1385 (Link to this contribution) It is a bit like Question Time—it could be good practice. To reply to the hon. Member for Glasgow, ...
John Robertson | 470 c1385 (Link to this contribution) I, too, have some reservations about what we do with waste. It is important to specify where it will...
Alan Whitehead | 470 c1385 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has made the case that, without much greater certainty about the disposal of nucl...
Alan Duncan | 470 c1385 (Link to this contribution) There is bound to be deliberate and wilful confusion between repositories that house old and new was...
David Chaytor | 470 c1385 (Link to this contribution) The country would be further ahead with waste disposal if the previous Conservative Government had n...
Robert Smith | 470 c1386 (Link to this contribution) When the Secretary of State talked about having a fixed price for disposal in his opening speech, di...
Alan Duncan | 470 c1386 (Link to this contribution) I am calling on the Secretary of State to honour his stated policy, which is to ensure that investme...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 470 c1386 (Link to this contribution) I am intervening reluctantly, but my hon. Friend the Member for Southampton, Test (Dr. Whitehead) ha...
Alan Duncan | 470 c1385 (Link to this contribution) The irresponsibility—if that is what it is—does not lie with me, in being asked whether I rule somet...
Alan Duncan | 470 c1386 (Link to this contribution) Our policy calls for honesty and certainty. What we have learned today is that a massive air of myst...
David Chaytor | 470 c1375 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Lord Hutton of Furness | 470 c1374-5 (Link to this contribution) We set out in the White Paper a lot of the detailed arithmetic and economics in connection with deco...
Robert Smith | 470 c1375 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State mentioned the west of Shetland. Does he believe that anything in the Bill wil...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 470 c1375 (Link to this contribution) I will not. Given the concerns of my hon. Friend the Member for Pendle about new nuclear, I would h...
Alan Duncan | 470 c1378 (Link to this contribution) That could destroy the investment climate for future energy investment. I do not want to make any pr...
Colin Challen | 470 c1378 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman's analysis is very interesting. The Environmental Audit Committee has looked at t...
Tom Clarke | 470 c1376 (Link to this contribution) Many people are interested in the issue of energy prices, which my right hon. Friend just mentioned....
Lord Hutton of Furness | 470 c1375-6 (Link to this contribution) No legislation is inhibiting the development of west of Shetland resources in any way, so we do not ...
Alan Duncan | 470 c1377-8 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Secretary of State for his introduction to the Bill, but what he outlined is no...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 470 c1376-7 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for making that point. I hope that it is some comfort to him t...
Alan Duncan | 470 c1379-80 (Link to this contribution) There may, for the hon. Gentleman, be a delicious historic point. In 1987 I was the Conservative can...
Michael Clapham | 470 c1378-9 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will know of two decisions made by the Conservative Government in 1992 and 1994 t...
Gregory Campbell | 470 c1383 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman alludes to the issue of waste disposal. Many hon. Members and the population as a...
Alan Duncan | 470 c1381-3 (Link to this contribution) That is an interesting comment. I am not so concerned by the ownership of the CCS technology as by t...
Alan Duncan | 470 c1380-1 (Link to this contribution) There was a crucial moment when the development of CCS technology was very important to this country...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 470 c1380 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has just made a point about whether carbon capture and storage should benefit fro...
David Heath | 470 c1371 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Lord Hutton of Furness | 470 c1371 (Link to this contribution) If I do, I hope that it will be the last time that I shall be asked to give way. I know that many ho...
David Heath | 470 c1372 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Secretary of State. I have some form on this matter, as 20 years ago I was on t...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 470 c1372 (Link to this contribution) I reassure the hon. Gentleman that no such decisions have yet been made. There would be no point in ...
David Chaytor | 470 c1372 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?
David Chaytor | 470 c1372 (Link to this contribution) There could be reasons to be cheerful in part 3 if the Government can guarantee that the nuclear gen...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 470 c1371 (Link to this contribution) I apologise to my hon. Friend and to other hon. Members for not making that point clear. The apprais...
Richard Ottaway | 470 c1374 (Link to this contribution) I am genuinely grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for giving way. I hesitate to intervene on the g...
Richard Ottaway | 470 c1373 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Lord Hutton of Furness | 470 c1373-4 (Link to this contribution) I shall make a little more progress and then give way to the hon. Gentleman and to my hon. Friend th...
Gordon Prentice | 470 c1374 (Link to this contribution) Only one nuclear power station in the world—at Three Mile Island in the US—has been decommissioned a...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 470 c1374 (Link to this contribution) What will happen is that there will be no new nuclear power stations in Scotland. As the hon. Gentle...
Gordon Prentice | 470 c1373 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way on that point?
Lord Hutton of Furness | 470 c1373 (Link to this contribution) No, as I must make progress. The new legislative framework in clauses 41 to 63 in part 3 will ensur...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 470 c1372-3 (Link to this contribution) I want to come on to that topic in a second. All Governments have a wider responsibility for public ...
David Heathcoat-Amory | 470 c1371 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State knows that if the Severn barrage goes ahead, it will start in my constituency...
Ian Liddell-Grainger | 470 c1370 (Link to this contribution) The reason why we stood up is that my right hon. Friend represents Wells and I represent Bridgwater,...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 470 c1370-1 (Link to this contribution) I certainly think that the Planning Bill will help. We must improve on the length of time it takes u...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 470 c1370 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way first to the hon. Gentleman and then to the right hon. Gentleman.
Lord Hutton of Furness | 470 c1370 (Link to this contribution) I shall certainly do that, and I am happy to work with my hon. Friend to bring that about. All the a...
Stephen Ladyman | 470 c1369-70 (Link to this contribution) Before my right hon. Friend leaves the subject of offshore wind power, may I ask him something? He w...
Roger Berry | 470 c1371 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend has given me a reason to be cheerful, as progress will be made on appraising th...
Adam Ingram | 470 c1391 (Link to this contribution) I have only a short time left. I am old enough to remember, only too well, the brown-outs of the 19...
Steve Webb | 470 c1391 (Link to this contribution) Let me begin by striking a brief note of consensus in agreeing with the hon. Member for Rutland and ...
Stephen Ladyman | 470 c1392 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman and his party are so keen on small energy, can he tell us why 75 per cent. of ...
Steve Webb | 470 c1392-3 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman raises a perfectly fair point about the process by which we determine the suitabi...
Tom Clarke | 470 c1391 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way to me, especially as I shall not be able to stay ...
Steve Webb | 470 c1391-2 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman has raised two important points with which I hope to deal later. I pay trib...
Alan Duncan | 470 c1387 (Link to this contribution) I shall move on, if I may. I have spoken for long enough, and I know that many other Members wish to...
Tom Clarke | 470 c1387 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Alan Duncan | 470 c1387 (Link to this contribution) The question that really matters, as the right hon. Gentleman is in the Government, is the obverse o...
Jamie Reed | 470 c1387 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Lord Hutton of Furness | 470 c1387 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to torture this analysis to death, but the hon. Gentleman has dug himself into a big h...
Alan Duncan | 470 c1387 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for my hon. Friend's intervention—I am very good at teasing. I have no doubt that his ...
Alan Duncan | 470 c1386 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way to the Chairman of the Select Committee on Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Refo...
Peter Luff | 470 c1386-7 (Link to this contribution) I shall try to re-establish the consensus that I thought was ruling in the Chamber, but which both s...
Adam Ingram | 470 c1389-91 (Link to this contribution) No, we are all pressed for time in this debate; let me make a few more comments and I will see what ...
Adam Ingram | 470 c1389 (Link to this contribution) I am prepared to take any technological or scientific examination of the issue, but at the end of th...
Alan Duncan | 470 c1388 (Link to this contribution) I am just finishing. As well as that piece of unfinished business, our main concern, as I have outl...
Adam Ingram | 470 c1388-9 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to be called to speak in the debate. I have been a long-term supporter of the benefits...
John Robertson | 470 c1389 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that part of the necessary waste reduction could be achieved through...
Alan Duncan | 470 c1387-8 (Link to this contribution) I shall move on, if I may. I am sure that the right hon. Gentleman will be called to speak, as he is...
Alan Simpson | 470 c1388 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that smart meters must empower the citizen, and not just the companies...
Alan Duncan | 470 c1388 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman. The whole point of smart meters is that they represent the first st...
Jamie Reed | 470 c1388 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
David Chaytor | 470 c1454 (Link to this contribution) I happily give way, as I still have another minute.
Stephen Ladyman | 470 c1454 (Link to this contribution) I would be happy to donate another minute to my hon. Friend. His point that no new nuclear power sta...
John Robertson | 470 c1440-2 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Coventry, North-West (Mr. Robinson). It wou...
Mark Lazarowicz | 470 c1444-6 (Link to this contribution) As other Members have said, there is an immense potential for renewable energy in the UK. Our geogra...
Alan Whitehead | 470 c1443-4 (Link to this contribution) I am a little surprised that we have spent so much time talking about nuclear power when we are cons...
Desmond Turner | 470 c1449-50 (Link to this contribution) I am not going to devote any of my precious minutes to the nuclear question for the very simple reas...
Alan Simpson | 470 c1446-9 (Link to this contribution) The most controversial thing about the Bill is the elements that are not included in it. The Bill ma...
David Chaytor | 470 c1453-4 (Link to this contribution) I am tempted immediately to invite interventions, because of the brilliant timekeeping and disciplin...
Emily Thornberry | 470 c1450-3 (Link to this contribution) I would like to discuss many different aspects of the matter that we are considering. However, given...
Malcolm Wicks | 470 c1464-5 (Link to this contribution) I do not confirm that; indeed, I deny it. By a full share we mean 100 per cent.—the absolute cost th...
Malcolm Wicks | 470 c1464 (Link to this contribution) There is a great deal of material that can help to inform the hon. Gentleman on that point. We have ...
Martin Horwood | 470 c1464 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister clarify whether the fact that companies will bear a share of both the cost of wast...
Malcolm Wicks | 470 c1464 (Link to this contribution) That makes it 101 questions. I will give way to the hon. Gentleman in a moment. We will deal with th...
Alan Duncan | 470 c1463-4 (Link to this contribution) Our concern is that the problem of waste should not be dumped on future generations. If there is to ...
Charles Hendry | 470 c1461 (Link to this contribution) No, as I want to give the Minister more than equal time to respond. This is not a bad Bill. It does...
Malcolm Wicks | 470 c1461-3 (Link to this contribution) When a future historian looks back at the 21st century and tries to review and summarise the great t...
Jamie Reed | 470 c1461 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Charles Hendry | 470 c1456-61 (Link to this contribution) We have had an excellent debate on the whole range of energy issues, and it has shown the House of C...
David Chaytor | 470 c1456 (Link to this contribution) I would very much like my fears to be allayed, but I think that the risk is there. The evidence of w...
Jamie Reed | 470 c1456 (Link to this contribution) I realise that time is tight, but may I urge my hon. Friend to speak to the director of civil nuclea...
David Chaytor | 470 c1455-6 (Link to this contribution) I am not saying that that is the way forward; I am saying that it is an option. I am trying to make ...
Geoffrey Robinson | 470 c1455 (Link to this contribution) I apologise for not being present for the earlier part of my hon. Friend's speech, but may I point o...
David Chaytor | 470 c1455 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point, but it comes down to whether any new generation or fleet of...
Martin Horwood | 470 c1436-7 (Link to this contribution) On the subject of British jobs, if we became a world centre for renewable energy—for example, in car...
Jamie Reed | 470 c1436 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman mentioned that both my hon. Friend the Member for South Thanet (Dr. Ladyman) and ...
Martin Horwood | 470 c1434-6 (Link to this contribution) Speaking from the packed Liberal Democrat Benches, may I say that the Government have failed to gras...
Colin Challen | 470 c1433-4 (Link to this contribution) I understand that Herr Scheer was referring to the civil sector. I accept my hon. Friend's point tha...
Jamie Reed | 470 c1433 (Link to this contribution) As a good Methodist, I shall refuse the opportunity to bet. My hon. Friend mentioned the economic es...
Geoffrey Robinson | 470 c1437-8 (Link to this contribution) As other hon. Members have said, the debate has been well attended—on this side, at least. The impor...
Martin Horwood | 470 c1439 (Link to this contribution) If security of supply is so overwhelmingly important, how can the hon. Gentleman prefer nuclear? It ...
Colin Challen | 470 c1439 (Link to this contribution) I must say that I do not loathe nuclear energy. I have visited nuclear power plants and seen them fo...
Geoffrey Robinson | 470 c1439 (Link to this contribution) The two most important requirements are security of supply, and for energy to be low in carbon emiss...
Geoffrey Robinson | 470 c1439 (Link to this contribution) In a moment. I am mystified as to why we have had so little take-up and so little success—as my hon....
Geoffrey Robinson | 470 c1438 (Link to this contribution) The Government are not going to set out and build the reactors, as Governments did in the past with ...
Geoffrey Robinson | 470 c1439-40 (Link to this contribution) We have had success with onshore wind farms, but problems still exist with offshore facilities. All ...
Michael Jack | 470 c1413-4 (Link to this contribution) I enjoyed listening to the hon. Member for South Thanet (Dr. Ladyman) when he was a Minister, but I ...
Steve Webb | 470 c1396 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a good point. There are many ways in which we could make progress on this a...
Speaker | 470 c1456 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman has said his ““finally””, I am afraid.
Peter Bone | 470 c1426-7 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Barnsley, West and Penistone (Mr. Clapham). Spe...
Robert Smith | 470 c1404 (Link to this contribution) One subject on which the hon. Gentleman has not touched is the welcome introduction of initiatives o...
Stephen Ladyman | 470 c1411 (Link to this contribution) Earlier, my hon. Friend was happily offering letters and articles to my hon. Friend the Member for Y...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 470 c1374 (Link to this contribution) I will give way, for the final time, to my hon. Friend the Member for Pendle.
Lord Hutton of Furness | 470 c1361 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. I believe that the Energy Bill, with the me...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 470 c1365-6 (Link to this contribution) I should like to make a bit more progress with my speech before I give way again. I hope that the Ho...
Stephen Ladyman | 470 c1412-3 (Link to this contribution) No, I cannot. I accept that that was a disaster, but compare it with the WHO's estimates of how many...
Paddy Tipping | 470 c1417 (Link to this contribution) Of course, I agree. However, the White Paper is uncertain on that point. We need a high and stable p...
Steve Webb | 470 c1396 (Link to this contribution) Funnily enough, the hon. Gentleman repeats a common misconception about renewables. Although an indi...
Alan Duncan | 470 c1387 (Link to this contribution) Of course I shall give way to the Secretary of State, but I seek some assurance from him that that m...
Alan Duncan | 470 c1438 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to assure the hon. Gentleman that we do not intend to vote against the Bill. We are being...
Alan Simpson | 470 c1381 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman accept that concerns are being expressed about the nature of the competition...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 470 c1371 (Link to this contribution) I can reassure the right hon. Gentleman that a decision has not yet been made about where the projec...

Subjects

Climate change
Carbon dioxide
Biofuels
Carbon capture and storage
Environment protection
Energy
Electricity generation
Energy supply
Infrastructure
Fuel poverty
Imports
Fossil fuels
EU emissions trading scheme
Oil
Natural gas
Nuclear power
Nuclear power stations
Microgeneration
Storage
Renewable energy
Waste disposal
Wind power
Carbon emissions
Social tariffs

Legislation

Energy Bill 2007-08

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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