Energy Bill

My Lords, I agree with the second part of the amendment proposed by the noble Lord, Lord Teverson...

My Lords, Amendment 55ZA in this group is in my name and that of the right reverend Prelate the B...

My Lords, I support the theme of these two amendments, particularly the latter one. It is widely ...

My Lords, I, too, express my appreciation of the intentions of the noble Lord, Lord Teverson, and...

I follow on from my noble friend’s remark and say that Amendment 51N is pretty vacuous. It is giv...

My Lords, I do not know whether my noble friend Lord Deben is getting up to speak or walking out....

I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Teverson, for his introduction to the debate on the demand ...

My Lords, I support my noble friends in trying to highlight the importance of demand reduction an...

My Lords, I thank my noble friends for enabling me to lay out further a response to the amendment...

My Lords, I am most grateful to my noble friend for what she has said, and in particular for draw...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords who have contributed to this debate. I am totally unapologetic abou...

Moved by

Lord Jenkin of Roding

52: Clause 5, page 5, line 9, at end insert—

“(f...

Colleagues may remember that I gave notice on Second Reading, during a passage when I spoke about...

My Lords, my name is attached to this amendment but I shall be very brief because my noble friend...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lords, Lord Jenkin of Roding and Lord Roper, for tabling their amendm...

I remember the birth of the 1989 legislation. At that time, due to what were deemed to be the fun...

Does the noble Lord agree that because First Utility is only a supplier, it considers itself at a...

I could not agree more with the noble Lord. The point that I am trying to make is that, while Fir...

My Lords, I am driven to get to my feet by the wise words of the noble Lord, Lord O’Neill—he may ...

My Lords, I shall intervene briefly because I do not want to pre-empt what I am going to say in m...

My Lords, I had not intended to intervene on this amendment and I shall do so extremely briefly, ...

My Lords, I had not intended to intervene but, while listening to this debate and agreeing with w...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lord Jenkin and the noble Baroness, Lady Worthington, for their...

My Lords, perhaps I may ask for clarification before the noble Baroness sits down. I accept her c...

I have been informed that it does take into consideration the points that the noble Baroness has ...

My Lords, I am extremely grateful to those who have contributed to this very important debate. As...

Before the noble Lord leaves that point—

Perhaps I might finish my sentence before I give way. I wish more people on the “Today” programme...

The point that the noble Lord makes is a good one, but he has chosen the easy one, where there wa...

If I may say so, my regulatory system was RPI minus X. I had an interview with a very senior Amer...

Moved by

Lord Whitty

52B: Clause 5, page 5, line 12, at end insert—

“( ) The Se...

My Lords, in speaking to Amendment 52B, I shall speak also to the other amendments in this group....

My Lords, I support the noble Lord, Lord Whitty. As I have declared before, I am vice-president o...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, and the noble Baroness, Lady Worthington, for tabl...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister and also to the noble Baroness, Lady Maddock, for her sup...

Moved by

Lord Berkeley

53: After Clause 5, insert the following new Clause—

“Di...

My Lords, to some extent, we started discussing the issue of fair competition in the debate on Am...

I have some questions for my noble friend. What he is suggesting has been tried before. We used t...

My Lords, I support the amendment of my noble friend Lord Berkeley. If his amendment were adopted...

My Lords, I am very clear in my desire to have maximum competition. I have been fascinated to hea...

My Lords, I will make two quick points. First, I point out that many Governments would salivate a...

Perhaps I may make a few more comments, some of them addressed to things that have just been said...

My Lords, like the noble Lord, Lord Deben, when I read this I thought that it was a very elegantl...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Berkeley, for his amendment. Amendment 53 is aime...

In response to the Minister’s direct question, we would have a regulator which, when it is asked,...

I am very grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken in this debate. We have had a very wide-ran...

I hope that the noble Lord will not mind me intervening. I thought that the noble Lord, Lord O’Ne...

I do not think that it was particularly perfect then. We thought that it would get better, but wh...

I just want to make the point to my noble friend that, of the six companies that currently exist ...

I am grateful to my noble friend. He is absolutely right. It is good to have Scottish companies. ...

Moved by

Lord Davies of Stamford

53ZZA: Clause 21, page 13, line 36, leave out “may” ...

My Lords, I will deal briefly with the first of my amendments, which would replace “may” with “mu...

My Lords, I do not think it is absolutely true that we have not talked about small businesses and...

I was not suggesting that we had not talked about small businesses. Of course people have talked ...

I totally agree with the noble Lord, but he gave the impression, I think, that we had not concern...

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Davies of Stamford, on producing an amendment that ...

My Lords, I briefly signal the support of our Front Bench for the amendments. Although I am famil...

My Lords, I start by thanking the noble Lord, Lord Davies of Stamford, for his amendments. Like m...

My Lords, with reference to the regulations being referred to here and elsewhere, will my noble f...

My Lords, I will not be able to give my noble friend an answer now but, if he will allow it, I wi...

My Lords, I am grateful for the contributions to that short debate. On the issue of “may” versus ...

I completely agree with the noble Lord over this. However, one thing which happened quite recentl...

I think that we are all very much agreed. I am grateful to everybody who has contributed. I am gr...

Before the noble Lord withdraws, which I am hoping he will do, I have just been given a note refe...

I am grateful to the noble Baroness. I had not noticed that announcement yesterday, I am afraid, ...

Moved by

Lord Jenkin of Roding

53ZA: Clause 21, page 13, line 41, after “electricity”...

My Lords, my intention in tabling this amendment was to draw the Committee’s attention to the nee...

My Lords, this is a very important amendment, not least because there are other aspects of planni...

Perhaps I may interrupt my noble friend for a moment. Somebody is operating a mobile phone, and i...

I thank my noble friend for explaining what it was that I said that was so damaging.

I woul...

My Lords, I shall speak briefly to the amendment moved by the noble Lord, Lord Jenkin, on the fut...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lord Jenkin for his amendment. Amendment 53ZA proposes that pro...

I am very grateful to my noble friend for her careful reply to the amendment. It is clear that sh...

Moved by

Lord Grantchester

53A: Clause 21, page 13, line 42, after first “electricity...

My Lords, we return to the demand-side provisions in the Bill. We spoke earlier today about how t...

My Lords, this amendment is the result of a representation to us by the Combined Heat and Power A...

My Lords, I am very sympathetic to the first three amendments and, to a more restricted extent, t...

My Lords, I welcome any amendment that emphasises the demand side of this issue. I particularly l...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Grantchester, for his detailed explanation of his amendmen...

My Lords, that is excellently timed as the clock strikes six. I thank the noble Baroness for her ...