Infrastructure Bill [HL]

My Lords, this is an important amendment. I was glad that the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, gave the G...

My Lords, I often find myself in agreement with my noble friend. Not infrequently, I find myself ...

My Lords, I add my support to the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, in trying to get energy efficiency as ...

My Lords, I apologise for missing the first minute of the speech of the noble Lord, Lord Whitty. ...

My Lords, my noble friend Lord Deben will be delighted to know that last week I quoted his report...

My Lords, in rising to support this amendment, I should first declare my interests as a farmer an...

It may be useful if I tell the noble Lord that the RHI is not applicable to new builds, and there...

I thank the noble Lord for that explanation, which certainly underlines the point I am trying to ...

Does the noble Lord also agree that the ideal use of pumps, both air and earth pumps, is in new b...

I thank the noble Lord for his intervention and I am glad that my remarks are invoking a certain ...

My Lords, I support the noble Lord, Lord Cameron, in looking at community heating. I recommend th...

My Lords, when you have had such a rich and excellent debate, you find yourself in the position w...

My Lords, I agree with the noble Baroness that this has been an excellent debate. Everybody has s...

I am impressed by the Minister’s statements and very much support them, but I do not quite unders...

I thank my noble friend for his intervention. However, I would err on the side of caution: if we ...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for that reply. I am very appreciative for all the support from no...

Moved by

Baroness Worthington

94AA: Clause 26, page 26, line 7, leave out “renewable”...

The amendments in this group are essentially probing in nature to allow us to debate in more deta...

This is a major step forward. It is a very positive step. I have sympathy with the amendment, but...

The difference is that we are going through something of a transformation from a situation where ...

As I said, I am sympathetic and understand that. However, that is also true of other parts of the...

My Lords, I, too, support the idea of community involvement in projects. As I said in my Second R...

My Lords, I take this opportunity again to thank all noble Lords for their excellent contribution...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords who spoke on this amendment and the others in the group. I thank th...

My Lords, I have said that there will be times when formal consultations are held, so it will be ...

I thank the noble Baroness for that, and indeed it will be interesting to see what comes back fro...

I am absolutely fascinated by the political analysis because I see this as something completely d...

I thank the noble Lord for attempting to reject my cynicism. We know that there is an issue with ...

My Lords, I apologise. We should move on to the next group. However, I want to clarify that it is...

I do not dispute that. I say again that I have nothing against community engagement—in fact, I po...

My Lords, I apologise to my noble friend the Minister, the noble Viscount, Lord Simon, and to off...

My Lords, I have considerable sympathy with what my noble friend Lord Jenkin has said, but I wond...

I thank the noble Lord, Lord Jenkin, for a characteristically thorough, thoughtful and detailed s...

My Lords, I am extremely grateful to my noble friends Lord Jenkin and the Duke of Montrose, and t...

I should have explained that the question of the Government giving the impression that they do no...

I am grateful for my noble friend’s intervention but reiterate that we are working closely with i...

This reminds me of a debate that we had on the Energy Bill, where there was a similar backstop me...

As with all things, I listen with great care and will, of course, having done that, discuss this ...

The reason I raised it is because renewable energy is a devolved matter and there is always this ...

I have been assured that it is a reserved matter.

Will there be any regulatory deregulation on the renewables industry to compensate for these new ...

I apologise for not being able to respond to the noble Baroness. I had a note to say that I would...

My Lords, I take some comfort from what my noble friend said in response to this short debate. Sh...

Moved by

Baroness Worthington

94AG: Schedule 5, page 79, line 17, leave out sub-parag...

My Lords, this has been grouped with a similar amendment from the noble Lord, Lord Teverson. It c...

My Lords, I am rather encouraged that there has been some detail from the Government on this poin...

I oppose these amendments. There are dangers involved. I believe in community involvement in loca...

I promise I am not going to try the patience of the Committee anything like as long as I did a fe...

My Lords, perhaps I may respond to the noble Lord, Lord Cameron, who raised some valid points, bu...

My Lords, I again thank all noble Lords for their interventions. I should like to respond to the ...

Quite honestly, I would not bother.

If I do not respond to him today, perhaps I may respond after reading Hansard.

I should lik...

I thank the Minister for that reply. Again, I apologise for having explained my amendment quite s...

I thank the noble Baroness for her response and all noble Lords who have contributed to the debat...

Moved by

Baroness Verma

94B: After Schedule 5, insert the following new Schedule—

My Lords, the UK oil and gas industry is of national importance: it makes a substantial contribut...

My Lords, I give an unreserved welcome to these new provisions. When Sir Ian Wood’s report was pu...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness for her introduction to the government amendments before us....

My Lords, I want to make just a few remarks on this. I do not quite share my noble friend’s rosy ...

I shall make a few observations on the speeches that we have heard from the noble Baroness, Lady ...

My Lords, again we have had some excellent contributions. I do not agree with the amendments whic...

Moved by

Baroness Verma:

95: After Clause 27, insert the following new Clause—

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My Lords, Amendment 95 will give HMRC a new function, allowing it to participate in the Extractiv...

My Lords, I must confess that I am rather puzzled by this amendment, as indeed I was by the Prime...

My Lords, I put one small question to the Minister. We discussed in the previous amendment a new ...

My Lords, I am very grateful to noble Lords for their intervention. I shall respond to the noble ...

Moved by

Baroness Verma

95ZA: After Clause 27, insert the following new Clause—