Infrastructure Bill [HL]

My Lords, I have some sympathy with the noble Baroness’s amendment. It has always seemed to me th...

My Lords, can I ask the Minister when she responds to comment on two points? First, if we are now...

My Lords, I have a question for my noble friend on the Front Bench arising from my work not long ...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Worthington, for proposing these amendments and all no...

I thank the Minister for her response and for the comments of noble Lords. I am encouraged to hea...

Moved by

Baroness Verma

113C: Clause 30, page 31, line 22, leave out from beginning t...

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

My Lords, the House will know that we have been supportive of this new regulator and have very mu...

My Lords, it needs to be remembered—indeed, the noble Lord, Lord Davies, has acknowledged—that th...

My Lords, I am extremely grateful to my noble friend for his intervention and contribution, becau...

Moved by

Baroness Verma

113D: Clause 30, page 32, line 20, leave out from “holder” to...

Moved by

Baroness Worthington

113G: Before Clause 32, insert the following new Clause...

My Lords, I shall speak also to Amendment 115A. These two amendments have been tabled to address ...

My Lords I understand the case that has been made by the noble Baroness, Lady Worthington. I star...

My Lords, I rise to support Amendment 113G. I declare a past interest, having been chief executiv...

My Lords, I am content to support Amendment 113G as far as it goes but, to my mind, it does not g...

My Lords, when one reads the amendment, one is clearly very favourable to it because it tries to ...

My Lords, I was chair of the Economic Affairs Committee of your Lordships’ House during the inqui...

My Lords, I declare an interest as the chairman of the Committee on Climate Change. It is true th...

My Lords, I declare an interest: I live in Lancashire, which is a beautiful, well populated and m...

My Lords, I think that the period for monitoring proposed in Amendment 113G—the previous 12 month...

I support Labour’s amendments. They attempt to improve the regulatory framework but they do not g...

Lord Lipsey (Lab): My Lords, I was a member of the Economic Affairs Committee, whose report, I am...

My Lords, it gives me great pleasure to re-engage in this debate. In particular, I wish the noble...

My Lords, I share the concern of the noble Lord, Lord Lipsey, as to where the heart of the noble ...

My Lords, in taking part in the debate, my only interest is that we should make a judgment based ...

The noble Lord quotes the economic impact report, which I have with me. Paragraph 269 says that t...

Of course, we have to address the safety issues. I am not seriously saying that anybody in the Ch...

My Lords, I thought it was a bomb, living as we do half way between both the aerospace centres, w...

That is an indisputable fact and I am glad it has been affirmed. I may not have been there when t...

My Lords, these amendments are useful as probes, as my noble friend Lord Lipsey said. They also h...

My Lords, I am extremely grateful to the noble Baroness for putting forward the amendment and to ...

My Lords, I said that this was one of the stories that is circulating. I asked the Minister for a...

My Lords, I am grateful for the correction, and I think I mentioned that issue in my response on ...

As I understand it, seismic monitoring is done on a continuous basis. While I cannot remember the...

I am extremely grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Young. He is absolutely right to point out that e...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for her comments and to noble Lords on all sides of the H...

Moved by

Baroness Young of Old Scone

113H: Clause 32, page 38, line 8, at end insert—...

My Lords, I am slightly nervous about speaking to Amendments 113H and 115 in my name on the Marsh...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness for introducing the amendment. I do not need to tell the Hou...

My Lords, neither the noble Baroness who has moved this amendment nor the noble Lord, Lord Judd, ...

My Lords, first, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Young of Old Scone, for introducing these impor...

The noble Baroness had an amendment in Grand Committee which addressed the question of whether th...

Perhaps I may give just a couple of examples. Water pollution and the impact on aquifers in gener...

As I was saying before such diverse interventions, I welcome these amendments. They exclude impor...

My Lords, I only wish that I could agree with the noble Lord, Lord Judd, that it is a short-term ...

My Lords, I rise to oppose these amendments. I understand the principle behind them but, as my no...

Before the noble Lord sits down—

My Lords, I am looking at the Companion in terms of rules of debate on Report. We are getting qui...

Before the noble Lord sits down, would he not agree that, whatever the value of the regulations a...

My Lords, it is clear now. Industry does not need further clarity. It works.

My Lords, those who oppose these amendments are missing the point. The amendments may well be in ...

My Lords, I am grateful to noble Lords who have contributed to this debate, which has been anothe...

My Lords, I welcome the commitment of the noble Baroness, Lady Young, to protected areas and was ...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for her words, and all noble Lords who have contributed to this de...

Moved by

Lord Wigley

114: Clause 32, page 38, line 15, at end insert—

“(6) This...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 115B, 115C and 123, which also stand in my name and are gro...

My Lords, I do not want in any way to suggest that Wales should not have its own authority over t...

My Lords, I rise briefly to ask the Minister for her comments on the issue of devolution and frac...

My Lords, I note the clause stand part amendments and the amendment proposed by the noble Lord, L...

I am very grateful to those who have taken part in the debate and to the Minister for her respons...

Moved by

Lord Whitty

115D: Clause 34, page 39, line 18, at end insert—

“( ) The...

My Lords, I am trying to help the Government out here. This is yet another part of the jigsaw tha...

My Lords, when I saw the noble Lord’s amendment, my immediate reaction was to say, as he has done...

My Lords, I have been glad to put my name to this amendment, which is very wise and prudent. It h...

My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend for tabling his amendment and for continuing the discu...

My Lords, I am always grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, for trying to help out the Governm...

I am sure that my noble friend shares my gratitude for the full way in which the Minister is repl...

My Lords, I hoped that I had reassured noble Lords that we do not wish to see the taxpayer foot t...

My Lords, I am very grateful to the noble Baroness for her full reply and for the matters that th...

Moved by

Baroness Verma

116: After Clause 37, insert the following new Clause—

...

My Lords, as noble Lords know, this Government are committed to ambitious action to reduce carbon...

My Lords, I welcome these moves, which will make financing much more flexible, and mean that mone...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for speaking to her amendments. As she said, there are th...

My Lords, I agree completely with the noble Baroness that we must ensure that there is proper par...

Will the noble Baroness write to me? What I am most interested in is change to the level of subsi...

I of course undertake to write to the noble Baroness and place a copy in the Library.

Moved by

Baroness Verma

117: Clause 38, page 41, line 36, leave out from “under” to e...

Moved by

Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts

118: After Clause 38, insert the following ne...

My Lords, the purpose of the amendment is simple, although the policy implications are perhaps mo...

In his amendment, my noble friend says that no less than 50% of any revenue received should go in...

If my noble friend waits for one minute, I shall explain the detail of the amendment. That will t...

My noble friend has not answered my question on what he anticipates the revenue to be.

I think I answered it by saying that the reason given for opposing a fund at this stage is that n...

My Lords, I added my name to my noble friend’s amendment and I congratulate him on the way in whi...

My Lords, I have also added my name to this amendment. This is for two reasons—partly, I was swep...

My Lords, I welcome this amendment and I was pleased to add my name to it both in Committee and n...

My Lords, I did serve on the soft power committee and I have to say that the countries with sover...

My Lords, I am delighted that the noble Lord, Lord Deighton, has joined us for this debate. I had...

My Lords, as the noble Lord, Lord Davies, has pointed out, superb cases have been made for each s...

Given what my noble friend has said, what answer would my right honourable friend the Chancellor ...

I think the difference between the two opportunities is that, in one case, we are right at the be...

Perhaps I might follow up on my noble friend’s point about the Scottish position. He said that we...

That is one of the reasons for our anticipating that this subject would be explored in the next P...

My Lords, I thank all those who have taken part in this debate. I am grateful to my noble friend ...

Moved by

Lord Jenkin of Roding

119: After Clause 38, insert the following new Clause—...

My Lords, I thank the two noble Lords who added their names to the amendment. We turn from the qu...

My Lords, I am very pleased to support the noble Lord, Lord Jenkin of Roding, on the amendment. M...

My Lords, this gives me the chance to congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Jenkin, on the assiduous ...

My Lords, I shall begin by thanking my noble friend Lord Jenkin for raising this matter in the Ho...

Before I withdraw the amendment, may I say that I am immensely grateful to my noble friend for hi...

Moved by

Baroness Worthington

119A: After Clause 38, insert the following new Clause—...

My Lords, a number of noble Lords may recognise this amendment, because this is not the first tim...

My Lords, I very much agree with the amendment. I have backed similar amendments to other Bills. ...

My Lords, we were treated yet again to an exposition by the noble Baroness on a matter that we de...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Worthington, for yet again bringing this subject to th...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for her response. It may well be true that up to 10 gigawatts has ...

Moved by

Baroness Verma

119B: Clause 39, page 42, line 9, leave out “or 35” and inser...

My Lords, as part of our proposals on the right to use underground land to exploit oil and gas an...

My Lords, as the noble Baroness has stated, this amendment follows from the recommendations made ...

Moved by

Baroness Verma

120: Clause 40, page 42, line 37, at end insert—

“(1A) ...

Moved by

Baroness Verma

124: Clause 40, page 43, line 4, after “38” insert “, section...

Moved by

Baroness Verma

125: Clause 41, page 43, line 14, at end insert—

“(1A) ...

Moved by

Baroness Verma

129: Clause 41, page 43, line 35, leave out from “28” to “com...

I must advise your Lordships that if this amendment is agreed to, I cannot call Amendment 130 by ...

Moved by

Baroness Verma

131: Clause 41, page 43, line 40, leave out “section 38 comes...

Moved by

Baroness Verma

133:In the Title, line 14, after “energy;” insert “to make pr...