I agree. It was very late in the day when we introduced that system, so at least we incurred the minimum cost of subsidy to achieve the given objective rather than just plucking out a number, which would inevitably have been high, given that civil servants always are rather generous with public money and set targets high, just so that they can say, “Oh look, we have achieved our quantitative solution, even if we have done so at unnecessary expense.”
Energy Bill [Lords]
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Lord Lilley
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 18 January 2016.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Energy Bill [Lords].
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