Energy Bill

My Lords, I will make a few comments on what my noble friend said. The first is that we are extre...

My Lords, I will be brief. I welcome the proposed new clause. Unfortunately, I did not have the o...

I am very happy to follow my noble friend. The fight against fuel poverty in the past 10 to 15 ye...

My Lords, I again declare my interest as chairman of the climate change committee, which has a sp...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for responding so quickly to our pleas last week about fuel povert...

So we must help him.

So we must help him to persuade others on the other issue, the decarbonisation target.

I wi...

Let’s fight, shall we?

Perhaps through e-mails.

Our problem is that a lot of properties are farm cottages. I go ba...

I, too, thank the Minister for getting fuel poverty into the Bill. Throughout the Commons proceed...

I thank the noble Lord for giving way. When I introduced the Home Energy Conservation Act, that w...

Yes, but this has not been a priority for local authorities and in the present period of austerit...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords for their warm welcome—even though from the Benches opposite it...

My understanding of the concern of the noble Lord, Lord Jenkin, was that there was an implication...

The information I am being given is that there will be no change.

Thank you.

Perhaps I can help the noble Lord, Lord O’Neill. The point that has been put to me on behalf of t...

My Lords, to continue with my responses, the noble Baroness, Lady Liddell, asked about ECO and wh...

Moved by

Baroness Finlay of Llandaff

51: After Clause 132, insert the following new C...

My Lords, these amendments concern carbon monoxide detection. I want to explain why carbon monoxi...

My Lords, I support the noble Baroness in her efforts in this area. I had better indicate that—I ...

My Lords, when we were discussing the previous energy Bill, I asked the Minister whether it inclu...

My Lords, we ought to help the Minister on this. I suspect that I know what advice she has been g...

My Lords, I, too, support this amendment. After the eloquent contributions we have heard, there i...

My Lords, we follow other noble Lords in also using our words in support of questioning the Minis...

I am extremely grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Finlay, for moving this amendment, and other ...

My Lords, I thank everybody in the Committee for their unconditional support. I recognise that th...

Moved by

Lord Whitty

51ZA: After Clause 132, insert the following new Clause—

“...

My Lords, Amendment 51ZA is a probing amendment, although it is one that the Government could giv...

My Lords, I support my noble friend in his amendment. The amendment seems particularly sensible a...

Following on from my two colleagues, it seems that mis-selling is endemic in certain areas of our...

My Lords, first, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, for tabling these probing amendments, as he...

On that point, I declare an interest as chairman of the Association of Professional Financial Adv...

My noble friend provides an excellent prelude to further commentary on why the Government are con...

My Lords, I find the explanation on the five-year period extraordinary. I think it was my noble f...

For the correction of the record, the problem is that the further you extend something, the less ...

My Lords, if something is unprovable, redress will not be awarded.

I am very grateful to my noble friend for giving way but the noble Lord, Lord Deben, referred to ...

My Lords, my noble friend has expressed the position far more precisely than me. I underline her ...

Moved by

Lord Whitty

51ZB: After Clause 132, insert the following new Clause—

A...

My Lords, we have touched on this. The ECO is central to the Government’s strategy for delivering...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, for his amendments dealing with the futur...

My Lords, it is precisely for the reason that this needs to be about the long term that I suggest...

Moved by

Lord Teverson

51ZDA*: After Clause 132, insert the following new Clause—

My Lords, one important but largely forgotten area of energy policy is the smart meter rollout wh...

I should perhaps start by declaring an interest. I am chairman of SmartGrid GB. In some respects ...

The noble Lord is absolutely right, but we should not allow people to think of this just as a jok...

I remember being a lorry driver’s mate in the 1960s when I was a student. As a consequence of a L...

I would like to speak Amendment 51AA*, which I tabled with the noble Viscount, Lord Hanworth.

I was just wondering how the noble Lord would make provision for the views of certain people who ...

I was going to suggest that, in an objective way, you present the official view but you might say...

My Lords, I support my noble friend on this issue. As he was speaking, I was thinking that we hav...

My Lords, the amendment in the names of the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, and the noble Viscount, Lord H...

My Lords, I do not know whether noble Lords are aware but some local councils have energy roadsho...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lord Teverson and the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, for their amendmen...

We have seen the statistics on the Green Deal. If I am right, you have to pay for those assessmen...

My Lords, first, we have to recognise that the Green Deal is still in its early stages. Given tha...

Unfortunately, the noble Baroness missed my point. Obviously, everybody’s body and lifestyle are ...

It is up to suppliers whether they charge: they may or may not. Government cannot dictate that to...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for that. I am greatly reassured, particularly that, as the data i...

Moved by

Lord Whitty

51ZEA*: Schedule 14, page 204, leave out lines 35 to 37

My Lords, Amendment 51ZE deals again with the redress powers. The issue here is that the Governme...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord for his amendments. Amendments 51ZEA and 51ZFA are designed to a...

My Lords, I am afraid that I do not accept those arguments at all. New entrants will not be affec...

Moved by

Lord Whitty

51ZEB: Schedule 14, page 204, line 44, at end insert “unless one...

My Lords, this is a straightforward question. The size of any compensation is limited to 10% of t...

My Lords, Amendments 51ZEB and 51ZEC, 51ZFB and 51ZFC are designed to amend Schedule 14 and permi...

My Lords, I thank the Minister particularly for that last point, because it indicates that it wou...

Moved by

Baroness Verma

51A: Before Clause 133, insert the following new Clause—

My Lords, in moving Amendment 51A I will also speak to Amendment 57; I hope that noble Lords will...

My Lords, can I be the first to welcome the amendment? Those of us who have read the debates that...

My Lords, this is an important government amendment and we welcome the group, which replicates am...

My Lords, I am extremely grateful for my noble friend Lord Roper’s warm welcome for these amendme...

Tabled by

Lord Hunt of Chesterton

51AA: Before Clause 133, insert the following new C...

I was astonished by the Minister’s remarks. She does not sound as if she goes shopping before she...

The noble Lord can move his amendment if he wishes and then he will get a response. However,

I wanted to move my amendment and thought that we had done that before. I just wanted to make my ...

My Lords, I have proposed that this clause should not stand part, partly because this is a very o...

I will wait until the noble Baroness is finished.

In the other place, the Minister did try to give some explanation as to what these fees for energ...

I apologise for appearing to interrupt the noble Baroness in mid-flow. I just have one question. ...

My Lords, I want to raise a slightly narrower point, but one related to that raised by the noble ...

My Lords, I am particularly grateful to the noble Baroness for this opportunity to consider this ...

Will the Minister clarify one point? If there is an official strike, for which due notice has bee...

My Lords, this provision is not designed to interfere with the normal relationships between emplo...

The Minister did not answer the question. If the Government impose a charge on companies in the e...

We do not anticipate that the companies could recoup in those circumstances.

It seems to me that we have got to the bottom of this. It is a very narrow thing that is needed, ...