Energy Bill

I am sorry, but I will not give way again. I have already given way many times; I have been very tolerant. Let me briefly commend amendment 1. It is clearly nonsensical to impose a levy designed to combat carbon emissions on technologies that do not produce any carbon emissions. The Minister has tried to mount a defence of the imposition of a levy on renewable technologies as well, but that would have a serious consequence. At the margin—and some renewable technologies are at the margin of viability; investment decisions may hang on fine financial judgments—the imposition of such a levy could stop renewable energy projects proceeding. I urge the Minister to reconsider her attitude to the amendment.