Energy Bill

My Lords, I commend the noble Lord, Lord Oxburgh, on his amendment. Decarbonisation is fundamenta...

My Lords, in proposing Amendment 2A in this group, I will go roughly along the same lines as the ...

My Lords, this is such an unbelievably bad Bill that it is difficult to see how it could be made ...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Lawson, cites as his authority the Financial Times. I want to addr...

My Lords, the description of the Bill by the noble Lord, Lord Lawson, bears no relationship to wh...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Oxburgh, has posed a fairly simple question to the House. There is...

My Lords, I am a member of the Committee on Climate Change and was a member of the committee of b...

My Lords, I declare my interests in various forms of energy as listed in the register. I cannot d...

My Lords, what the noble Viscount, Lord Ridley, has just said was factually incorrect. Climate ch...

My Lords, I shall repeat the statement. Later in my remarks I shall come back and justify it. Cli...

My Lords, I invite the noble Viscount, Lord Ridley, to explain to the House why he disagrees with...

My Lords, we are taking about the same sorts of numbers. The percentage addition I am talking abo...

So does the noble Viscount accept the climate change committee’s calculation that less than 10% o...

My Lords, why are we to assume that greater energy efficiency in the home will only happen if we ...

At the risk of being tedious, can I ask for a response to this account of what the IPCC said? Thi...

My Lords, I hope that the noble Lord will understand that we are at Report stage. I am conscious ...

My Lords, I will try to be brief. There has been no increase in sea surface temperatures over the...

My Lords, I support the noble Lord, Lord Oxburgh, and Amendments 1 and 2. At the heart of this de...

My Lords, did I say that it was not happening? Everything that the noble Lord, Lord Smith, has sa...

It is rather good to have on the record the noble Viscount’s opinion that climate change has been...

My Lords, we should start by recognising that the latest report of the IPCC is very clear. It is ...

My Lords, I take a very different view from my noble friend Lord Deben. I thought that his last c...

I have never spoken against a Labour amendment in my 28 years in this House, but I propose to do ...

My Lords, like the noble Lord, Lord Donoughue, I shall not be supporting the amendment of the nob...

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I am sorry I have gone downmarket a bit. I am quite sure noble Lords will want to take more notic...

My Lords, I hesitate to intervene at a late stage in this debate. I am grateful to the noble Lord...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to speak at the end of this debate—a wide-ranging debate, someth...

My Lords, these amendments have attracted significant debate across the House today and I am extr...

My Lords, I thank all those who have participated in this very interesting discussion. I apologis...

I never said that. But even if one thinks it does have an effect, the policy prescription does no...

I thank the noble Lord. I was about to go on and say that I think his position is rational in tha...

Moved by

Lord Whitty

3: Clause 5, page 5, line 22, after “electricity” insert “in gen...

My Lords, I do not think that this issue will take us quite as long as the previous debate. Indee...

My Lords, I have great sympathy for the words spoken by the noble Lord. He and I and one or two o...

My Lords, I start by declaring an interest: I am a vice-president of National Energy Action and t...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, for his amendment and all noble Lords who have tak...

Before the Minister sits down, can I apologise to the House for not declaring my interest? Like t...

My Lords, I also omitted to declare an interest. I am chair of a charity that deals with research...

Moved by

Lord Jenkin of Roding

4: Clause 5, page 5, line 24, at end insert—

“(f...

My Lords, this amendment stands in my name and those of my noble friends who I shall mention in a...

My Lords, I wish to speak in support of this amendment. I recognise that the noble Lord, Lord Jen...

My Lords, I very much like the thrust of this amendment and I hope the Government will take it se...

The noble Lord, Lord Broers, and my noble friend Lord Deben have widened the amendment tabled by ...

My Lords, as this is my first intervention on Report, I must declare an interest as a farmer with...

My Lords, I support Amendment 4 and will speak to my Amendment 5. Both concern competition. We ha...

My Lords, my noble friend Lord Jenkin has yet again put his finger on a hugely important issue, b...

My Lords, I do not want speak specifically in favour of the spirit of the amendment proposed by t...

My Lords, I am grateful to noble Lords for tabling this amendment. It enables us to have a debate...

My Lords, I thank my noble friends Lord Jenkin and Lord Roper, and the noble Lords, Lord Cameron ...

I am sorry to interrupt, but I forgot to ask a question in my contribution, particularly on the c...

My Lords, while I wait for some inspiration to wing its way down to me, I will continue and respo...

I am listening with very great care to what my noble friend has said because this is all very imp...

My Lords, as I have said, I have taken very seriously what the independent generators and others ...

My noble friend went very fast, and at my age it is not always easy to hear everything that is be...

My Lords, I do not want to leave my noble friend in any grey area. I have listened very carefully...

My Lords, I am going to take my noble friend’s word as what I think she is intending to mean. She...