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Climate Change and SustainableEnergy Bill

I hear what the hon. Lady is saying about subsidy, but does she accept that a much more effective way to promote microgeneration than trying to pick winners and impose subsidies—we should recognise that in the scheme of things, £50 million, however welcome, is a tiny amount in an electricity industry that generates billions of pounds—would have been for the Government to have supported the new clause that I tabled in Committee, proposing a local authority planning regulation requirement to fit microgeneration as standard in developments of a certain size? The estimates are that, if that had happened, it would have transformed the market from about £50 million to about £800 million.