Energy Bill

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Worthington, for these amendments, which seek to time ...

It is helpful to know that there are a number of CCS projects, but a precise number would be even...

I accept that the noble Baroness is keen to get the range. I am not in a position to offer that c...

My Lords, I am grateful for that response and welcome the Minister’s offer to write with further ...

Moved by

Lord Whitty

55ALB: Schedule 2, page 111, line 32, leave out “with the consen...

My Lords, Amendment 55ALB is largely an attempt to get greater clarity than we got on, I think, t...

My Lords, I again thank the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, for his amendment, which would require inves...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for those comments and look forward to receiving a letter from her...

Moved by

Lord Whitty

55ALD: Schedule 2, page 113, line 29, leave out paragraphs (c) a...

My Lords, we are moving on to the transparency part of the provisions on investment contracts, bu...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, for his amendment. The Government are fully commit...

My Lords, I am reassured only to a limited extent. I thank the Minister particularly for her refe...

My Lords, perhaps I may try to further reassure the noble Lord that the reason why certain parts ...

I understand that, and it would be possible to express those provisions in slightly narrower term...

Moved by

Lord Grantchester

55ALE: Schedule 2, page 115, line 15, leave out sub-paragr...

My Lords, Amendment 55ALE would implement the recommendations of your Lordships’ Delegated Powers...

My Lords, I support the noble Lord, Lord Grantchester, on this amendment. I believe that we have ...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Grantchester, for his amendment which would implement the ...

I thank the Minister for those comments and the noble Lord, Lord Roper, for telling the Committee...

Moved by

Baroness Worthington

55ALF: Clause 39, page 22, line 30, leave out from “be”...

We tabled Amendment 55ALF in order to consider in detail the provisions in Chapter 5 about confli...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Worthington, for the amendment. I understand ...

Before the noble Baroness sits down, what is the competence of DECC and Ofgem in deciding what a ...

The noble Lord raises a very important point. As he is aware, when we need to look at specialist ...

I am sorry, but I do not think the Minister has quite understood my point. In the event of one of...

My Lords, rather than delay the Committee, it would be more prudent to write with a more detailed...

I thank the Minister for her response. The amendment was not seeking to add a disproportionate hu...

Moved by

Baroness Verma

55AM: Clause 53, page 53, line 22, leave out “or (4)” and ins...

Moved by

Lord Roper

55B: After Clause 53, insert the following new Clause—

“Dom...

My Lords, this amendment was originally tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Cameron, who very much reg...

My Lords, I very much support the amendment. This may well be the last time I speak in this Commi...

I rise stimulated by the right reverend Prelate’s remarks, partly because when hydropower develop...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Roper, and other speakers have made a very good case for looking a...

My Lords, I am extremely grateful to my noble friend Lord Roper for moving the amendment on behal...

My Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords who have taken part in this short debate. I was partic...

Moved by

Lord Teverson

55C: After Clause 55, insert the following new Clause—

“...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Judd, for supporting and putting his name to this amendmen...

I thank the noble Lord, Lord Teverson, and my noble friend Lord Judd for bringing forward the sub...

My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend Lord Teverson for prompting a very important debate on...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for going through that. The momentum has been growing in this area...

Moved by

Lord Stephen

55D: After Clause 55, insert the following new Clause—

“E...

My Lords, I refer to my entry in the register. Amendment 55D is tabled in my name and that of my ...

My Lords, as we have been reminded today and, indeed, in a previous session of the Committee, an ...

My Lords, I support the amendment tabled in the names of the noble Lords, Lord Stephen and Lord T...

I will just point out that the noble Baroness is absolutely right about that. It is true that hea...

I absolutely agree. If immersion heaters were now plugged into the grid and could be switched on ...

We have had an interesting debate that was kicked off by the noble Lord, Lord Stephen. Before tel...

My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend Lord Stephen and to all noble Lords who have contribut...

I thank my noble friend the Minister. I absolutely agree that there is a lot of very good work go...

I thank the noble Lord for giving way. I want to clarify that, as I said in my speech at Second R...

I point out to the noble Baroness that my right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Ener...

I am sorry to raise this again as we are sparking up another debate here. There might well be con...

We have touched on a very interesting area but we can all agree that a strategy is a very good th...

Moved by

Baroness Worthington

55E: After Clause 55, insert the following new Clause—<...

My Lords, this amendment is dissimilar in many respects from the amendment we have just debated. ...

My Lords, I made a brief reference to voltage optimisation earlier in the Grand Committee’s proce...

My Lords, I am sorry not to have been able to be here earlier. I declare an interest, given that ...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Worthington, for the amendment. Over the past...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness for those comments. What they serve to do is illust...

My Lords, as I have said, if the initial criteria can be met, of course we will reconsider everyt...

I take the point, but what the industry is feeding back to me is that it is finding the process t...

Moved by

Viscount Hanworth

55F: After Clause 55, insert the following new Clause—

Throughout the Committee’s debates, one vital element has been barely mentioned—the future of Bri...

My Lords, I will briefly speak to this amendment. I declare an interest as a patron—unremunerated...

I welcome the amendment and the noble Viscount, Lord Hanworth, is to be congratulated on giving u...

Perhaps I may interject. The truth of the matter is that we have already had a fast breeder in th...

This is a classic example: if it was that good, why are we not using it?

For political reasons.

It is no longer for political reasons. Proliferation arguments have been set aside for a long tim...

On the question of what the UK can contribute, the noble Lord is absolutely right that Rolls Royc...

My Lords, Amendment 55F from the noble Viscount, Lord Hanworth, provides me with an opportunity t...

Before the Minister sits down, I have a question about one key phrase that was used. The noble Ba...

Absolutely—as I alluded to earlier, we are looking at proposals from both CANDU and PRISM. We hav...

I am distressed by the inertia, the lack of vision and the dilatoriness of the Government and par...

Moved by

Lord Whitty

55G: Clause 139, page 107, line 41, leave out paragraph (c) and ...

My Lords, we really are at the end now. I shall try to be brief but make no apology about turning...

My Lords, I very much oppose the amendment, which seems unnecessary. A great deal of advice is av...

I am extremely grateful to my noble friend. I thank the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, for his amendmen...

My Lords, I think that we are near the end and, clearly, I am going to withdraw the amendment. Ho...

Moved by

Baroness Verma

56: Clause 140, page 108, line 20, at end insert—

“( ) ...

Moved by

Baroness Verma

57: Clause 141, page 109, line 18, at end insert—

“( ) ...

My Lords, this concludes the Committee’s proceedings on the Bill, but before I let noble Lords go...

My Lords, I shall take just one or two more minutes of the Committee’s time to put on record my t...

That definitely concludes proceedings on the Bill.