My Lords, I will respond to the noble Lord, Lord Kerr, on Amendment 55AFB in a moment but, first, I will reply to some of the other questions that have been posed.
I reassure noble Lords that we have had a reasonably positive response to our amendment from stakeholders, including RUK, RES and the Renewable Energy Association, although I recognise that there is a lot more work to be done. We will be working very hard with the industry and other stakeholders to make sure that we have a bankable solution. The noble Baroness, Lady Liddell, asked what I would be doing during the summer, and this will be one of my tasks.
My noble friend Lord Deben was absolutely right when he said that we need to be absolutely sure that we are able to explain our intent clearly. I hope that I will be able to reassure him that I will continue to work before Report to ensure that our proposals are understandable and available to the market. Like all
noble Lords, I feel that this is an incredibly complex and complicated area, so it is absolutely right that we are able to explain ourselves very clearly.
All noble Lords said that it has taken us a long time to get to where we are. However, it is a complex issue. We launched a call for evidence last July regarding the introduction of backstop powers in the Bill in November, and we have brought forward amendments. We want to work very closely with the industry to develop further proposals and we will be consulting in the autumn. However, in all this we need to make sure that the independent operators feel that they have a large stakeholding and that they are being responded to.
The noble Lord, Lord Cameron, asked why we do not keep GPAM in reserve as the NFPA already exists and has proven to work. The NFPA is not suitable for GPAM. The nature and scale of projects under GPAM are very different and would need a very different type of action, so there would not be a natural transfer across.
In response to the intervention of the noble Lord, Lord Kerr, concerning Amendment 55AFB, the PPA price would be set at a fixed discount to the market price, but the discount itself would not be set by reference to the current market. Does that make sense?