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Energy Bill

Proceeding contribution from Lord Deben (Conservative) in the House of Lords on Thursday, 4 July 2013. It occurred during Debate on bills and Committee proceeding on Energy Bill.

Before my noble friend sits down, I did not suggest that there should be further weight further down the system, I was suggesting that we are already asking all that needs to be asked for this to work.

In what has been an increasingly long life, I have discovered that in most cases it is better to have “both/and” than “either/or”. I hope that she will at least leave a chink open to consider whether there might be some advantage in something after this sort of mechanism, even if it were permissive, so that it was clear that it was something that the Secretary of State could be asked about if he had not done it. Even if she went only as far as that, it would be of considerable help. Would she be willing at least to say that before we get to Report, she will have another look at this, because it seems to me that “both/and” might be better than “either/or” in this case?

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
746 c473GC 
Session
2013-14
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords Grand Committee
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