Energy Bill [HL]

We now pass to the second relatively controversial aspect of this Bill: the decision to close the...

My Lords, I first say a word of thanks to the noble Lord, Lord Bourne, because I sounded a bit in...

My Lords, I welcome the amendments tabled. I thank the noble Lord, Lord Bourne, for indicating th...

My Lords, before coming to the substance of the amendment, perhaps I may express my gratitude to ...

The noble Viscount is making a powerful and coherent argument, but does he not agree that all we ...

Yes, but the point is that a lot of the subsidy that would go to Scottish wind farms comes from E...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Worthington, for moving the amendment and noble Lords ...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for his response, and for the contributions from other no...

Moved by

Baroness Worthington

34B: Clause 60, page 31, line 39, at beginning insert “...

In moving Amendment 34B, I shall also speak to Amendments 34C, 34D and 35D in this group on the d...

My Lords, I am very grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Worthington, for speaking to these amend...

My Lords, I support this group of amendments. I was not sure whether I would speak to this group ...

My Lords, I have just remembered that I should have declared an interest earlier, as I did at Sec...

My Lords, perhaps I may make a small contribution. I apologise to other noble Lords that I was no...

The point I was making was that if the Government had not done anything about grace periods, liti...

I fully understood what the noble and learned Lord said and I took it on board, because clearly o...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Worthington, for moving the amendment. I hope to expla...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for his comments and for the contributions from other nob...

I hope I did not give the impression that I find it irritating to give a running commentary. I do...

I thank the noble Lord. The grace period is incredibly important. We are talking about sunk costs...

My Lords, we gave notice that we would seek to oppose that Clause 60 stand part of the Bill as an...

My Lords, I kept my powder dry on the general points until now, which ran the risk that some of t...

My Lords, I declare my interests, as I did on earlier days in Committee, as president of the Ener...

My Lords, perhaps I may intervene on a couple of those issues. The noble Lord, Lord Howell, compl...

Before the noble Lord sits down, I wonder if he could answer the question that I posed: how much ...

I absolutely agree about the failure of gas to drive out coal. That is why I have been a major ad...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble and learned Lord, Lord Wallace, for opposing the Question th...

I thank the noble Baroness, at least for her very last point about how she is looking forward to ...

We will consider this matter later but it is simply not true that we are ahead of our European re...

I hope the noble Baroness will agree that we are on track in relation to the electricity ambition...

The obligation relates not to electricity but to energy. There is no electricity obligation of an...

My Lords, onshore wind has deployed successfully to date and is an important part of our energy m...

I am sorry to interrupt but this is an important part of the Bill. Can the Minister explain how i...

On that specific point, the noble Baroness will know that the costs of deploying some renewable t...

The Minister has indicated that a justification for the position is to reduce domestic consumer b...

The noble and learned Lord has correctly identified the part of the impact assessment that deals ...

As I said, the impact assessment is really rather lacking in detail. It may make those assumption...

I accept that obviously there is a question about what is used instead. However, I remind the nob...

My Lords, I am very grateful to all noble Lords who took part in this debate and, indeed, to the ...

Moved by

Lord Grantchester

35: After Clause 60, insert the following new Clause—

My Lords, I rise to propose Amendment 35 and declare an interest, in that I am undertaking a plan...

My Lords, my name is also on the amendment, but I must apologise to the Committee for not being h...

Although I agree in principle with what this amendment is trying to get at, I have a recollection...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lords, Lord Grantchester and Lord Whitty, for proposing this amendmen...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for that reply and for being keen to hear about our policies. I wa...

Moved by

Lord Whitty

35A: After Clause 60, insert the following new Clause—

“De...

In the unavoidable absence of my noble friend Lord Foulkes, I will speak to Amendment 35A. As we ...

My Lords, I was pleased to add my name to the amendment, although I do not pretend to be an exper...

My Lords, it is not for the chairman of the Committee on Climate Change to comment much on the me...

My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend Lord Whitty for introducing this amendment and to the ...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, for moving the amendment, but perhaps I may turn f...

The Minister will forgive me if I did not catch this properly, but are the Government saying that...

No, my Lords. I was saying that we would not support additional power sector targets. As I unders...

The target is not in existence. The power was created in the Energy Act to allow the Secretary of...

My Lords, I appreciate that point. On the clause as set out, I have made it clear that we will no...

My Lords, if I understand that right it is very disappointing. I can understand the objection, or...

I am not quite sure how to ask the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, this, but having read the Conservativ...

My Lords, I am not quite such a conscientious and diligent reader of the manifestos of various pa...

To be helpful, in view of the fact that there is a degree of uncertainty about what the manifesto...

My Lords, that was very generous of the Minister. I thank him very much, as I think the Committee...

Moved by

Baroness Worthington

35B: After Clause 60, insert the following new Clause—<...

My Lords, that was an interesting debate. It has slightly changed the context for the next two am...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Worthington, for moving this amendment. She is right: ...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord for his response although I do not believe that it adeq...

I will certainly write to the noble Baroness on those points.

I thank the Minister. On the basis that we will continue this discussion and I will be in touch o...

Moved by

Baroness Worthington

35C: After Clause 60, insert the following new Clause—<...

My Lords, Amendment 35C would insert a new clause after Clause 60 to require that an allocation r...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Worthington, for moving this amendment. She will know ...

I thank the Minister. I find it quite curious that an amendment asking for greater certainty in C...

On that point, I am happy to endeavour to make the amendments available. What I cannot do, and I ...

Given that the Minister has been so excellent in communicating with us in Committee, I am happy t...

Moved by

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

36: Clause 61, page 33, line 14, leave out “or” a...

Moved by

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

In the Title, line 1, after “functions;” insert “...