Energy Bill

Moved by

Baroness Verma

26: Clause 3, page 3, line 14, leave out “Great Britain” and ...

Moved by

Baroness Worthington

27: Clause 3, page 3, line 19, at end insert—

“(c...

My Lords, first, I should like to thank the Minister for her very timely and quick turn-around of...

My Lords, as the noble Baroness, Lady Worthington, has said, Amendment 27 proposes that if carbon...

I thank the Minister for her comments. I am very pleased that she understood that the sentiment w...

Moved by

Baroness Verma

28: Clause 3, page 3, line 31, after “to” insert “the Departm...

Moved by

Lord O'Neill of Clackmannan

29: After Clause 3, insert the following new Cla...

This is a probing amendment and in some respects it follows on from what my noble friend has just...

As the climate change committee is mentioned in this amendment, perhaps I could refer to some of ...

My Lords, I wanted to make a few comments about how such an obligation might work. Of course, I c...

My Lords, I simply add my support for this amendment and urge the Minister to give it careful con...

My Lords, I am extremely grateful to the noble Lord, Lord O’Neill, and of course I look very care...

Before my noble friend sits down, I did not suggest that there should be further weight further d...

First, I stand corrected by my noble friend. Secondly, I think that the measures we are taking ad...

If the Government are satisfied that they and their predecessors have done everything they could ...

I genuinely do not understand this. I can understand Europe wanting to get rid of coal altogether...

I am merely quoting what the Minister said. As a consequence of, for example, the large plant dir...

I am sorry to prolong the debate but I think this is really important. I stress that, in addition...

My Lords, perhaps I may quickly respond to that. It was made very clear on Report in the Commons ...

I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.

Moved by

Baroness Verma

30: Clause 4, page 3, line 34, leave out “Great Britain” and ...

Moved by

Baroness Worthington

36: Clause 4, page 4, line 11, after second “Britain” i...

In moving Amendment 36, I shall speak also to Amendment 37. Again, these are simply probing amend...

This is a useful probing amendment. One of the other areas that has not been mentioned is the int...

Amendment 36 proposes that the Secretary of State makes further provision about the meaning of “e...

Before the noble Baroness withdraws it, may I make one further comment? I am not getting in the w...

I thank the Minister for her response and I look forward to receiving the letter. On Amendment 37...

Moved by

Baroness Verma

38: Clause 4, page 4, line 26, after “consult” insert “the De...

Tabled by

Lord Whitty

38A: Clause 4, page 4, line 27, at end insert “and when the ref...

My Lords, I do not intend to move Amendment 38A, although the noble Baroness did not actually rej...

Moved by

Lord Whitty

38B: Clause 57, page 55, line 3, after “GB” insert “civil”

My Lords, in moving on to this large group of amendments, we move to an entirely new part of the ...

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, on the comprehensiveness of his amendments....

I congratulate my colleague and noble friend on the rigour with which he has approached this area...

Perhaps I may make one thing clear at the beginning. I have no ‘s’ on the end of my name. There i...

If only an “s” were the only thing that I had to worry about. When you have a name such as O'Neil...

My Lords, I do not think that one can add much to what my noble friend Lord Jenkin said, except t...

My Lords, I ought to declare an interest in the sense that, unless climate change has made a diff...

My Lords, I am extremely grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, for his careful consideration o...

Hear, hear!

When my noble friend said 1965, I tried to remember what I was doing then and I think I was proba...

My Lords, I will be very happy to withdraw the amendment and I thank the Minister very much for t...

Moved by

Lord Whitty

38E: Clause 58, page 55, line 42, at end insert—

“( ) For ...

My Lords, this amendment deals with relatively bread-and-butter matters and with the effects of t...

My Lords, on the controversial comment that was just made, I find it very difficult because I do ...

My Lords, in creating the ONR as a statutory body, it is important to ensure that the tenets of h...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for that. I am very satisfied with at least one and a hal...

I would not want the noble Lord to mistake what I said. Of course a nuclear site, by its very nat...

My Lords, I did not expect to convince the Minister, but before he stood up I had a slight hope o...

Moved by

Lord Whitty

38G: Clause 59, page 57, line 23, at end insert—

“(4) Oper...

My Lords, I will speak also to the other amendments in this large group, to which the noble Lord,...

My Lords, I must start with an apology. I dealt in my earlier speech with arguments which are muc...

My Lords, I want to refer particularly to the suggestion that DECC and the DWP should in some sen...

Does my noble friend recollect, as I do, the ghastly events of the landslide at Aberfan? With thr...

I agree with my noble friend about that example. The reason I drew from familial experience was t...

I have some sympathy with the remarks that have been made, which sets me at variance with my nobl...

My Lords, when I heard the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, introduce this amendment I had a good deal of...

My Lords, before the Minister replies, perhaps I might point out that most of this debate has bee...

I am extremely grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, and I hope that I will be able to allay h...

I welcome what the Minister said about considering between now and Report the Delegated Powers Co...

My Lords, I join the noble Lord in welcoming what the Minister said. It is important that the Gov...

Moved by

Lord Whitty

38R: Schedule 6, page 131, line 1, leave out paragraphs (a) and ...

My Lords, in moving Amendment 38R, I will also speak to the other amendments in this fairly mixed...

My Lords, I am extremely grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, for allowing me an opportunity ...

My Lords, could the Minister give assurances that, on the references in Clauses 68, 80 and 104, t...

My Lords, as I said earlier, of course, I am doing my level best to ensure that the Committee get...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for going through the amendments. I accept the argument in regard ...

Moved by

Lord Whitty

38W: Schedule 7, page 131, line 35, leave out “7” and insert “8”...

My Lords, this group is fairly straightforward and deals with the structure of the board of the O...

I am extremely grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, for his kind remarks about the two amendm...

My Lords, again, I am extremely grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, and my noble friend Lord...

My amendment has of course not been moved so I cannot withdraw it, as I am sure that my noble fri...

My Lords, I am somewhat disappointed by the Minister’s reply, but I should first apologise to the...

Moved by

Lord Whitty

40C: Schedule 7, page 139, line 20, at end insert “including ful...

My Lords, the Committee will be relieved to know that Amendment 40C is the lead amendment in the ...

My Lords, I have doubts about two amendments in this group. On Amendment 40G, I am told that full...

My Lords, I wanted to build for one moment on what my noble friend Lord Jenkin has said and take ...

I rise in defence of my noble friend—although we disagreed on the previous amendment. We are losi...

I am extremely grateful that the noble Lord ended on his last note, because I consider everything...

Before my noble friend sits down I hope I may be allowed to say how much we owe to the noble Lord...

Flabbergasted as I am, I thank the noble Lord and others who are saying, “Hear, hear!” I wondered...

My Lords, this may be a convenient moment for the Committee to adjourn.