Energy Bill [HL]

My Lords, before the Minister leaves this point, could he tell us, first, what sums are involved ...

My Lords, obviously much is dependent upon when the legislation goes through, and that is in the ...

I take it then that the Minister is unaware of the financial implications of what he is asking us...

My Lords, it is not for me to determine whether the conditions are met. There is a process set ou...

My Lords, perhaps I can help the Minister out, if I may. We have had estimates from the independe...

With respect to the noble Baroness, this is not about those projects that fall just the other sid...

I would like to ask the Minister about the extension of time. I fully understand and think it is ...

My Lords, I am very happy to respond to that point, but it is a quite separate point from the inv...

My Lords, I think that the noble Baroness, Lady Worthington, will say something about Scotland wh...

Is the fact that the Minister, who is well respected in this House, has had to work so hard—his p...

My Lords, I think that everyone who has dealt with this Bill would agree that it has not been a s...

My Lords, I did not speak in Committee, although I attended it, partly because I found almost a s...

My Lords, I had not thought that what we were dealing with was liquid legislation. I thought we w...

My Lords, I was not going to intervene at this stage, but the right reverend Prelate’s interventi...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for introducing the government amendments. I will speak t...

I am most grateful to the noble Baroness for giving way at that point, which is a very material p...

I am grateful to the Minister for that intervention. Of course I am aware of the Salisbury conven...

I endorse what my noble friend has said. She is absolutely right. When we come to the next amendm...

I am grateful to my noble friend for his support. The concerns that I have raised consistently th...

Before the noble Baroness gets to the end of her eulogy for the wind industry, will she confirm t...

We can debate who benefits most from our low-carbon agenda—possibly it is the Chinese at this par...

My Lords, first, a rare moment of agreement: I suspect that I will not be able to satisfy the nob...

I do not wish the debate to descend into party politics, but since the Minister has raised it, it...

I note what the noble Baroness says, but this comes back to leadership. If its leader has materia...

Perhaps the Minister can clarify something that appears in the Conservative Party manifesto: that...

I have made the position on contracts for difference very clear, as I think the noble Baroness ap...

My Lords, I realise that this is Report, but I would like to press the question I put in my inter...

My Lords, I do not know the proportion, but I know that the upper end of the limit is £270 millio...

First, I did not raise the issue of the definition of the recognised lenders because the noble Lo...

My Lords, on his last point first, I am very happy to speak to the MoD in the way that the noble ...

Moved by

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

78D: Clause 66, page 38, line 6, at beginning ins...

Moved by

Baroness Worthington

78Q: Clause 66, leave out Clause 66

My Lords, I am sure that people will be very pleased to hear that I do not intend to repeat the s...

I am grateful to the noble Baroness for allowing me to intervene again. She and I have had an exc...

I sometimes also wonder about the European policy and in particular why we have not moved further...

My Lords, I have been wondering during the entire consideration of this debate why there has been...

Does the noble Lord at least accept that because wind is unreliable, you have to double up in the...

No. If we have a diverse energy supply, with nuclear, wind and a whole range of other ways of pro...

My Lords, in declaring my interests at the start, I reassure the noble Lord, Lord Foulkes, that m...

I am grateful to the noble Lord for giving way. He makes a lovely speech, but actually we are deb...

I do not know where I was five or 10 minutes ago then, when I was listening to a lot of very wide...

The noble Lord is probably going to move on to it being conducive to falling arches and making ch...

My Lords, I am ready to reply to the noble Baroness’s speech, but I believe that that was an inte...

I had actually pretty well come to the end of my remarks anyway—but on the subject of energy-inte...

I did not want to make an intervention on an intervention, but may I say something now? I agree t...

My Lords, I strongly support the wise words of my noble friend Lord Ridley. I am one of those who...

It is a bit rich, this casting aside of planning legislation and saying that what local authoriti...

I thought that my noble friend Lord Cormack was saying the opposite: that we should not cast asid...

The existing system may not be perfect and it is a source of frustration for many people, but it ...

My Lords—

I am sorry. I realise that we are moving towards a vote and I do not wish to take much more of th...

My Lords, I do not wish to detain the House for long. When we engaged after the debate on recommi...

One of the things we have to bear in mind is that a number of wind farms were granted permission ...

I think that the noble Lord almost makes my point because, as far as I understand what is being p...

My Lords, I also want to draw attention to the fact that this legislation is unfair. Contrary to ...

My Lords, as I listened to this debate, I had one of those “Doctor Who” moments. You go into the ...

The noble and learned Lord, Lord Hardie, and the right reverend Prelate have focused on the issue...

My Lords, I support the point made by the noble and learned Lord, Lord Hardie, about the situatio...

My Lords, this has been a very wide-ranging debate, taking in issues which are beyond the scope o...

On the question of the Salisbury convention, I confess that I have not included recently the Cons...

The noble Lord is right on the wording—actually, it is “new public subsidy”, but he is stressing ...

Before the Minister sits down—I asked a specific question and I would like to encourage an answer...

It is neither of those, if I may say so. We have had an engagement exercise with industry, the de...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for his response and, indeed, to all noble Lords who have...

Tabled by

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

78R: After Clause 66, insert the following new C...

My Lords, we have already debated this. I think that Amendment 78RA would improve Amendment 78R, ...

Perhaps the noble and learned Lord can tell me what it is about.

My understanding is that Amendment 78R contains the new clause to embrace the grace periods. As C...

I am certainly not pushing this amendment.

Moved by

Baroness Worthington

78S: After Clause 66, insert the following new Clause—<...

My Lords, in this group of amendments we are considering the wider implications of the Government...

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness on the ingenuity of the proposals in this amendment; ...

My Lords, I particularly wish to speak to Amendment 78UA, to which I have added my name, but I wi...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords who have participated in the debate on this part of the Bill. I sha...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for his response and to the noble Lord, Lord Teverson, fo...

I can follow the argument that the noble Baroness is making very clearly. However, does she not a...

I am grateful to the Minister for that question. However, that is not the case. There are two ver...

Moved by

Baroness Worthington

78UA: After Clause 66, insert the following new Clause—...

I beg to move, and I seek the opinion of the House.

Moved by

Baroness Worthington

78V: After Clause 66, insert the following new Clause—<...

My Lords, I reassure the Minister that this is not a matter on which I intend to seek the opinion...

My Lords, I shall not detain the House very long. I am not sure that the amendment as written is ...

My Lords, once again very briefly, could the Minister also make some comment in his response abou...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have participated in the debate on Amendment 78V and the no...

I thank the Minister for his response, and our conversation was welcome just so that this did not...

Moved by

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

79: Clause 67, page 39, line 24, leave out paragr...

Moved by

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

82A: Clause 68, page 39, line 34, leave out “This...

My Lords, in view of the earlier defeat of Clause 66, I shall withdraw this amendment.

Moved by

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

83: Clause 69, page 40, line 3, after “amendment”...

Moved by

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

84: After the Schedule, insert the following new ...

Moved by

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

line 2, after “infrastructure;” insert “to make p...