Energy Bill [HL]

My Lords, I support Amendment 49 and the introduction given by my noble friend. First, I apologis...

My Lords, I am very pleased that the mover and seconder of this amendment have mentioned direct a...

I wish to express my support for Amendments 39 and 49. I have been looking for a place to make my...

I have always been very sceptical about carbon capture and storage and direct capture of carbon d...

My Lords, I am slightly sympathetic to the Government on certain of these amendments in certain w...

My Lords, I too welcome the noble Baroness, Lady Liddell, back to these Benches. I look forward t...

I thank the Minister for her response. First, on what my noble friend Lady Liddell had to say, it...

Moved by

Baroness Liddell of Coatdyke

40: Clause 57, page 52, line 11, leave out “fun...

Thank you very much. This is another one on future-proofing. The amendment says,

“leave out...

I add my welcome to my noble friend Lady Liddell and I am certain that my noble friend Lord Foulk...

I did not like to address the amendments tabled by the noble Baroness before she had addressed th...

I thank the noble Lord, Lord Teverson, for his kind invitation to address noble Lords on this sub...

Given that explanation, I am prepared to withdraw the amendment.

We come to Amendment 41. Lord Callanan?

Moved formally. No! I will speak to it.

That was my fault.

You just can’t get the Whips to support you properly nowadays, can you?

Thanks.

I am only joking. My noble friend is brilliant at the job.

Amendment 41

Moved by

Lord Callanan

41: Clause 57, page 52, line 21, at end insert “or (Enforcemen...

I will speak to government Amendments 41 and 63 standing in my name. Amendment 63 will enable the...

My Lords, these government amendments are evidence of the rather chaotic state of the Bill as it ...

The noble Lord is correct that a lot of drafting work went in. There is always limited OPC drafti...

Moved by

Baroness Liddell of Coatdyke

43: Clause 61, page 55, line 5, leave out from ...

I will speak to Amendments 43, 45, 48 and 58. Again, they are trying to cope with some of the wid...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 46 in my name. As the noble Baroness, Lady Liddell of Coatdyk...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 47 in my name. I find myself in the unusual position of being...

My Lords, I declare my interest as a member of the UK Hydrogen Policy Commission. I do not disagr...

Just to add to that list of uses, I am interested in the development of the hydrogen village, as ...

I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Liddell, and the noble Lord, Lord Foulkes, for their amendments ...

I am not a lawyer, and nor is the Minister, so I will understand if she wants to write to me. How...

I need to take that question back to the department and then write to the noble Baroness.

I thank the Minister very much for that very full response. The noble Baroness, Lady Worthington,...

Moved by

Lord Oates

50: After Clause 64, insert the following new Clause—

“Desi...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendments 50 and 51. These are probing amendments to press the Governm...

My Lords, I have some sympathy with what the noble Lord, Lord Oates, has just said. My concern is...

My Lords, I fully support the amendments in the name of my noble friend Lord Oates and that in th...

I must counsel the noble Lord, Lord Foster, that he cannot move his amendment at this stage but o...

My Lords, I support the amendment in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Moylan, which relates to re...

It hates to spend money full stop.

Well, yes, it hates to spend money full stop, but especially on resilience. Whether it is the los...

I join the noble Lord in his support for my noble friend Lord Moylan’s Amendment 225. I have been...

My Lords, I support Amendment 225 in the names of my noble friend Lord Moylan and others. The nob...

My Lords, I strongly support Amendment 225, which seeks to introduce a requirement to construct g...

My Lords, I will briefly speak to this group of amendments. It is clear that the resilience of ou...

To be absolutely clear, it would apply to all batteries that receive their supply from solar pane...

In which case, I am even more supportive, because it is absolutely clear that installing solar pa...

My Lords, I rise with my European Affairs Committee hat on. I see these as enabling amendments fo...

My Lords, in the interests of time, I will comment only on Amendment 240, in the name of the nobl...

My Lords, I begin by making it quite clear that my energy storage interests are not around long-t...

My Lords, the amendments from the noble Lord, Lord Oates, are very welcome and they plug a gap in...

I thank all noble Lords for participating in what has been a fascinating debate on an important s...

That is moving back from what I understood. I understood there had been an agreement, or is it ju...

As I said at OQs this afternoon, licences have been granted by Ofgem, by the regulatory bodies, b...

I thank the Minister for that information, but it sounds to me like Centrica is conducting a very...

I will leave that as a comment; there is nothing I can reply to on it. When I have further inform...

I am sure it is on the departmental website, but do we know how much gas is supplied by interconn...

When my noble friend says “tankers”, I take it she means LNG tankers. I forget the exact figure, ...

In case there are any Treasury officials listening or, indeed, reading Hansard, I suggest that on...

I thank the noble Baroness for her suggestion. The Treasury is not normally shy in coming forward...

I thank the Minister for his reply. On the tax treatment of batteries for solar power, I heard th...

Moved by

Baroness Blake of Leeds

52: Clause 66, page 58, line 4, leave out “relevant ...

I shall speak also to Amendments 54 and 62, tabled in my name and that of my noble friend Lord Le...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendments 55, 56 and 57 to Clause 66, which are in my name. As has bee...

My Lords, I think we are all trying to achieve the same thing here. As the noble Baroness, Lady B...

I thank the noble Lords, Lord Lennie and Lord Teverson, and the noble Baronesses, Lady Worthingto...

I am grateful for the Minister’s response. I have no doubt that hydrogen will have a role to play...

I understand the point made by the noble Baroness. I have also seen the models of where it is mos...

I thank the noble Lord for his comments and welcome, as we all do, the