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Energy Bill

Proceeding contribution from Lord Crickhowell (Conservative) in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 16 July 2013. It occurred during Debate on bills and Committee proceeding on Energy Bill.

That was the point that I dealt with in my speech, based on my own experience. I was going to intervene to say that I did not understand my noble friend’s comment that she feared that following the suggestions of this advisory committee might reduce ministerial responsibility. We already have the precedent of the nuclear advisory board; we also have the precedent that I described of the advice that my National Rivers Authority advisory board gave to the Government and then to the National Rivers Authority itself. In none of those cases was there the slightest reduction in ministerial responsibility and I cannot conceive that a committee of the kind suggested could possibly have that outcome.

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Reference

747 c239GC 

Session

2013-14

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords Grand Committee
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