Energy Bill [HL]

My Lords, the amendments in this group add the relevant provisions of the Oil Taxation Act 1975 a...

Moved by

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

Moved by

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

2A: Line 2, leave out “Chapter 9 of”

Moved by

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

My Lords, following a Division on Report in this House, a new clause was added to the Bill. This ...

My Lords, it is our view on these Benches that carbon capture and storage and transportation shou...

My Lords, I will not delay the House unduly, and I draw attention to my entry in the Register of ...

My Lords, I, too, express some concerns about the removal of the amendment in the Commons. Althou...

I suggest to the noble Baroness that a third event has happened—we have the early results from th...

I note that, but I would just say that we are not Canada and we are very fortunate to have the No...

My Lords, I agree that carbon capture is one of the keys to the future of energy and climate poli...

I am happy to answer the noble Lord’s question. The Liberal Democrats keep an open mind on all te...

My Lords, I am sorry to interrupt, but at this stage of the Bill noble Lords are not allowed to s...

My Lords, speaking briefly from these Benches but entirely personally, because bishops take diffe...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords for participating in the debate on this amendment. I will try to co...

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Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

That this House do agree with the Commons in thei...

My Lords, Commons Amendments 4 and 5 overturn amendments made at Lords Report stage. They reinsta...

Moved by

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

That this House do agree with the Commons in thei...

My Lords, the Government remain committed to delivering our manifesto pledge to end new subsidies...

I shall speak to Amendments 7U, 7V, 7W, 7Y, 7AC, 7AD and 7AE which are in my name. The Minister i...

That is a first.

It is indeed. Absolutely. As my noble friend Lord O’Neill said, it is unusual—exceptional—for me ...

Unprecedented.

It is unprecedented, as my noble friend Lord Hain says. I also want to reassure the Minister that...

My Lords, on Report I drew attention to the unfair effect upon a development on Skye. The origina...

My Lords, I tabled Amendment 7T and took the liberty of giving the Minister a copy of my draft sp...

My Lords, the Minister has moved Amendment 6 and spoken to Amendment 7, and I want to speak princ...

My Lords, I would like just very briefly to seek clarification on something that has arisen from ...

My Lords, I was not intending to speak on this amendment, but, as the noble and learned Lord, Lor...

My Lords, I support the amendments in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Foulkes, and of the noble ...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 7AB, tabled in my name. The Energy Bill started in your Lord...

My Lords, we have had a wide-ranging debate on the opposition amendments which I shall try to cov...

My Lords, I apologise for not being here at the beginning of the Bill, having only joined the Hou...

The noble Lord is wrong on the issue because, with the grace period and with the investment-freez...

My Lords, I do not think that the Minister has addressed two points, one of which is the investme...

Taking the latter point first, I think that I did so in response to the comments made by the nobl...

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Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

6A: Line 9, leave out “31 March 2016” and insert ...

Moved by

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

Moved by

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

7A: Line 8, leave out “31 March 2016” and insert ...

Tabled by

Lord Hain

7T: Line 145, after “2015,” insert “regardless of whether it was ...

My Lords, on the basis of the Minister’s kind offer to write to the developer, I will not move th...

Moved by

Lord Wallace of Tankerness

7X: Leave out lines 176 to 185 and insert—

...

My Lords, in view of the fact that the Minister has given no concession whatever, I beg to move a...

I should inform the House that if Amendment 7X is agreed to, I will be unable to call Amendments ...

Moved by

Lord Wallace of Tankerness

7AA: Line 179, at end insert “, or

“(e) evi...

Moved by

Lord Grantchester

7AB: Line 179, at end insert “, or

(e) evidence that...

Moved by

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

7AJ: Line 360, leave out “31 March 2016” and inse...

Moved by

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

Moved by

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

8A: Line 12, leave out “31 March 2016” and insert...

Moved by

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

My Lords, Commons Amendment 9 removes a clause that was inserted on Report in this House. This as...

Moved by

Lord Grantchester

My Lords, I will speak to Amendments 9A to 9D in my name, regarding the UK carbon account. A clau...

My Lords, Amendment 9E is in my name. Our previous debate on this took place in October, before t...

My Lords, I have only one question about this amendment, and it is aimed at both sides of your Lo...

On that point about the steel industry, one point I was trying to convey is that if we take contr...

The question is: why are we not using the flexibility in the Climate Change Act to amend it, to e...

My Lords, I rise to speak to the amendment in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Worthington. P...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords who have participated in the debate on the carbon accounting proces...

Before the Minister sits down, could he be a bit clearer about this? We have obviously taken on b...

I think the noble Baroness is aware of the reasons why. I do not want to be provoked into going i...

My Lords—

Let me just finish this point. We are not unsympathetic to the principle of looking at this—I thi...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for giving way and I do not wish to take up the time of the House,...

I am sorry to interrupt the noble Lord but he may need to be reminded that, at this stage of the ...

I am sorry, but I do not think it is right procedurally for the Minister to say that he has had a...

It is perfectly in order for me to have discussions with other Members. I have indicated that the...

I thank all noble Lords who have spoken this afternoon and thank the Minister for the considered ...

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Baroness Worthington

My Lords, I beg to move my amendment to the Motion. I would like to test the opinion of the House...

Moved by

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

That this House do agree with the Commons in thei...

Moved by

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

That this House do agree with the Commons in thei...

My Lords, Commons Amendment 11 is a technical amendment that was inserted to avoid infringing the...

Moved by

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

That this House do agree with the Commons in thei...