Energy Bill
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747 cc539-582GC Session
2013-14Legislative stage
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House of Lords Grand CommitteeRelated items
Wednesday, 5 June 2013
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Proceeding contributions
Moved by
Lord Roper
55AB: After Clause 14, insert the following new Clause—
“Re...
My Lords, Amendment 55AB is also in the names of my noble friend Lord Jenkin, who unfortunately i...
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My Lords, I have put my name to this amendment. Our energy markets are dominated on both the gene...
My Lords, I am delighted to have this opportunity to follow the noble Lords, Lord Roper and Lord ...
My Lords, we may have noticed that there is a good deal of support on both sides for what the Gov...
My Lords I shall speak to Amendments 55AE, 55AFA and 55AFB, which are all in my name. Amendment 5...
My Lords, if there has one been theme since the Bill started its long route over the past couple ...
My Lords, I am very grateful to the noble Lords who tabled amendments and spoke so eloquently to ...
Did the noble Baroness also notice that the sector much outpaced every other part of the economy ...
I thank the noble Lord for his timely intervention. I could not agree more. It is a shame that th...
My noble friend is right to draw attention to the fact that there are a range of different instit...
I thank the noble Baroness for alerting us to that. As I was saying, there is clearly an issue an...
It will be too late.
I do not think it will be too late. The reason I say that is independent generators, as we have j...
My Lords, the issue of competition and, in particular, the route to market for independent renewa...
Before the noble Baroness sits down, will she explain again why she rejected Amendment 55AFB in t...
My Lords, I will respond to the noble Lord, Lord Kerr, on Amendment 55AFB in a moment but, first,...
Yes, it does—I think.
Did it not make sense? Perhaps I will get a little more inspiration while I finish reading my not...
It is probably a question of our understanding more clearly how the price setting might be derive...
I thank the noble Baroness for that. I recognise the concerns that noble Lords have rightly shown...
My Lords, I am very grateful to all those who have taken part in what I believe has been a useful...
Moved by
Lord Roper
55ACA: Clause 15, page 11, line 7, at end insert—
“(d) conf...
My Lords, in the absence of my noble friend Lord Jenkin, I shall move the amendment on his behalf...
My Lords, I think it is valuable that my noble friends Lord Jenkin and Lord Roper have put this a...
My Lords, the noble Lords, Lord Jenkin and Lord Roper, have raised an interesting point. I was go...
The more we look into this subject, the more complicated it gets. We should take seriously the po...
My Lords, my arrival here was opportune, I think. Every day I look at the headlines in newspapers...
I am sorry to add to the worries. I had not intended to intervene but it seems to me that, in spi...
My Lords, I am extremely grateful to my noble friends Lord Jenkin and Lord Roper for tabling this...
I assure my noble friend that the industry realises how strong the powers are. That was the reaso...
Of course, my noble friend is far more experienced in these matters than I and I am always open t...
My Lords, I am grateful to all those who have taken part in this useful debate and to those
Moved by
Baroness Worthington
55ACB : Clause 17, page 12, line 7, leave out subsectio...
My Lords, today the Committee started with a discussion around transitional arrangements for rene...
My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness for her amendment. It seeks to remove Clause 17(4), which se...
My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness for her response, which gives a degree of reassurance, certa...
Moved by
Baroness Verma
55AF: Clause 44, page 27, line 40, leave out from “by” to end...
Moved by
Baroness Verma
55AG: After Clause 44, insert the following new Clause—
Moved by
Baroness Verma
55AH: After Clause 44, insert the following new Clause—
Moved by
Lord Whitty
55AJA: Clause 46, page 28, line 19, at end insert—
“( ) Re...
My Lords, we have jumped to the transitional arrangements for the move from ROCs to CFD. This is ...
My Lords, I am most grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, for his amendment but I hope that in...
My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness for that reply. It gives me some comfort but there are a num...
Moved by
Lord Stephen
55AK: Clause 46, page 28, line 23, at end insert “for the purpo...
My Lords, in moving Amendment 55AK, I wish to speak also to Amendment 55AL, both of which stand i...
My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Stephen, for tabling the amendments, to which I h...
My Lords, I thank my noble friend and the noble Baroness for tabling these amendments, and for an...
My noble friend said rightly that, clearly, any Government need to be able to reduce intervention...
I wanted to put the caveat of the Government seeking to respond having the ability, potentially, ...
I very much welcome the words of my noble friend at the end of his remarks. They were most encour...
Moved by
Lord Whitty
55AKB: Clause 46, page 33, line 43, leave out “a” and insert “th...
My Lords, this is probably the most straightforward amendment that I have ever produced; however,...
My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, for these amendments and I hope that I shall be ab...
My Lords, I thank the Minister for that explanation. I had sidelined Clause 7—I think I referred ...