Energy Bill

My Lords, I speak to the government amendments in this group, which I hope noble Lords will welco...

My Lords, I welcome these amendments but want to ask the Minister about a couple of matters. I ha...

My Lords, from these Benches, I, too, support the amendments and much of what the noble Lord, Lor...

My Lords, I am grateful for the noble Lord’s warm welcome of this amendment. I am very keen to ma...

Will the Minister answer the very pertinent question asked by my noble friend Lord Whitty as to w...

My Lords, I shall write to the noble Lord on that and make the letter available to Members of the...

My Lords, if the Minister is not in a position to address today my point on the Sewel convention,...

My Lords, energy policy is transferred in relation to Northern Ireland. Therefore, it is right th...

My Lords, I understand what the Minister says, but we have had a case recently where the National...

My Lords, I am quite happy to take away the noble Lord’s concerns and, I hope, respond to him in ...

Perhaps I may raise a tangential point that came to mind when my noble friend Lord Whitty was spe...

Rather than give a brief response to that, I would prefer to give a more detailed one. On interna...

Moved by

Lord Oxburgh

2: Clause 1, page 1, line 8, leave out “may” and insert “must”<...

My Lords, I shall speak also to Amendments 3, 4, 6, 9 and 14. I begin by declaring my interests a...

My Lords, I strongly support the amendments tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Oxburgh. Amendments 2 ...

My Lords, I have listened to the two speeches on this with great interest. It is with some anxiet...

Perhaps I might ask the noble Lord whether the provisions of the Climate Change Act and in the pr...

I can only reply that if the noble Lord thinks that that is all that is necessary, I cannot think...

I regret that I was not able to follow very clearly the logic of the remarks of the noble Lord, L...

My Lords, I want to follow up on some of the comments made by the noble Lord, Lord Davies, becaus...

My Lords, as noble Lords may be aware, I have strong reservations about the Bill but on this issu...

My Lords, I apologise to colleagues and to the Minister for not being at Second Reading. I had in...

Does the noble Lord agree that it is quite clear the reason for those price increases is the high...

No, I would not agree at all. I look at my bill, and I do not know whether the noble Baroness has...

Will the noble Lord therefore explain why gas bills have been rising when they do not carry any o...

Obviously the bulk of a market price is the price at which gas is purchased: either contract or s...

My Lords, in his meandering tour d’horizon, the noble Lord, Lord Jenkin, said that the only appro...

My Lords, it gives me some concern to disagree with both my former Secretary of State—for whom I ...

My noble friend has missed the point. The danger of targets such as the one proposed now is that ...

I find that very difficult to follow. This is not a prescription for the means by which we will m...

My Lords, like the noble Lord, Lord Deben, I support the amendments in the name of the noble Lord...

My Lords, I hesitate to intervene in a debate between titans but I wish to speak as an innocent c...

My Lords, I, too, rise to oppose the amendment moved by the noble Lord, Lord Oxburgh—although I g...

The industries the noble Viscount has cited are wholly dependent on baseload generation. However,...

My Lords, in the United States, shale gas has displaced coal. I should, by the way, declare my in...

I am sure that the noble Viscount knows this, but in the calculations that the climate change com...

Would the noble Lord accept that the figure that came out last week for the amount of shale gas u...

I am sure that that is a fascinating discussion and one we will probably return to, but can the n...

If we embrace within the next couple of years a decarbonisation target that is stricter than shal...

My Lords, I shall speak briefly because I realise that it has been a long debate. I want to make ...

My Lords, the whole Committee owes a great debt of gratitude to the noble Lord, Lord Oxburgh, for...

I hope that the Committee understands that the “facts” that were presented would be denied by alm...

If my noble friend feels that anything that the noble Viscount, Lord Ridley, said was incorrect, ...

Will the noble Lord explain, therefore, why there is currently a trade dispute between China and ...

That is an interesting question, which I will answer. The Chinese felt that the Europeans were so...

My Lords—

No, I have not finished. It is true that carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has a warming effect. H...

My Lords, I have no financial interest to declare. I suppose my interest to declare is that I now...

My Lords, the noble Earl has presented a view of the report that he and I were both party to, as ...

My Lords, with regard to the first question that the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, posed to me, yes, o...

My Lords, I am delighted to speak to Amendments 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 10, 11 and 14. If your Lordships w...

I thank the noble Baroness for letting me intervene; I shall not intervene again. I do not want t...

I thank the noble Lord for making that comment. I simply say that that is a complaint against the...

My Lords, I echo the noble Baroness in saying that this has been an excellent debate and, given t...

My Lords—

In order to make progress, if the noble Baroness has a question, perhaps I could take it after I ...

My Lords, I would like to ask the Minister about her assertion that there are targets post-2020, ...

Of course, the point is that we have to make sure that this happens against the backdrop of what ...

My Lords, I thank all those who have taken the time to give us a very interesting and rewarding d...

The noble Lord is an enormous expert on this but is he talking about just shale gas itself or abo...

I was restricting my comments to shale gas, and in the interests of time I will continue to do so...

Moved by

Baroness Verma

5: Clause 1, page 1, line 11, leave out “Great Britain” and i...

Moved by

Baroness Worthington

8: Clause 1, page 2, line 1, leave out from “range” to ...

My Lords, I do not wish to prolong this debate greatly although I am grateful to have this opport...

My Lords, Amendment 8 raises questions about when a decarbonisation target range should be set. T...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness for her response. I have to point out that at the moment we ...

Moved by

Lord Grantchester

12: Clause 1, page 2, line 17, leave out “5” and insert “5...

My Lords, I will speak also to Amendment 25 in this group. Amendment 12 ensures that, on a decarb...

My Lords, perhaps I might counsel the Minister to be very careful about accepting these amendment...

My Lords, I will not take up much time. The noble Lord, Lord Deben, may be right that this level ...

My Lords, on Amendment 12, Clause 1(8) gives the Government the power to repeal the reporting req...

I want to rectify an omission from my previous intervention. I should have declared a non-financi...

My Lords, it has been interesting to hear the comments around the Committee this afternoon. I am ...

Moved by

Baroness Verma

13: Clause 1, page 2, line 27, after “consult” insert “the De...

May I check with my noble friend that the inclusion of the words “the Department of Enterprise, T...

My noble friend has raised the point about Northern Ireland. The relevant department in Northern ...

Moved by

Baroness Maddock

15: Clause 2, page 2, line 41, at end insert—

“( ) en...

My Lords, this amendment is in my name and that of my noble friend Lord Teverson. I, too, welcome...

I rise to support my fellow vice-president of National Energy Action. I should perhaps have menti...

My Lords, I will be brief because a lot of what needed to be said in this debate has been said by...

The climate change committee raised some very important issues about fuel poverty. We have a comm...

My Lords, I put my name to the amendment of my noble friend Lady Maddock. In three areas of the d...

My Lords, I, too, am extremely sympathetic to the objective of this amendment. But perhaps I am a...

My Lords, we on these Benches strongly advise the Government to accept something like this wordin...

My Lords, I agree that fuel poverty is a real and serious problem faced by many households today....

My Lords, I thank the Minister for her reply and thank all noble Lords who joined in this short d...

Moved by

Baroness Verma

16: Clause 2, page 2, line 42, leave out “Great Britain” and ...

Moved by

Lord Turnbull

18: Clause 2, page 2, line 44, leave out paragraph (h) and ins...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 18, which is related to Amendment 19. I expect the noble Vis...

For the convenience of the Committee, would the noble Lord tell us for how much longer we will go...

My Lords, that is the estimated rising time and we agreed with the opposition whip that we would ...

My Lords, I support Amendments 18 and 19 from the noble Lord, Lord Turnbull, but I will mainly ad...

My Lords, Amendment 21 is in my name. I apologise that I was unable to attend Second Reading. Thi...

My Lords, Amendments 18, 19 and 20 all deal with the way in which the Secretary of State will com...

My Lords, I had not intended to contribute to this debate but several remarks have been made whic...

My Lords, the concern behind Amendment 18, proposed by the noble Viscount, Lord Ridley, and the n...

I am grateful for the Minister’s answer on Amendment 19 as regards the assurance that an adequate...

My Lords, perhaps I may suggest that this is a convenient moment for the Committee to adjourn.