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Energy Bill

I am extremely grateful to the noble Lord for that. No doubt he will write to me before Report as I do not want to waste time later. He said that the matter would be covered by Clause 5(b). I think he was responding to a note that was passed to him by the wise people who sit behind him. Clause 5(b) states, "““prescribe requirements which must be met by””." That seems to me to look to the future and to what the person will be required to do, which the regulations will set out. I should have thought that my original suggestion on Clause 5(a) and a class of persons who could be excluded by regulation from being given a licence is what he initially suggested. The noble Lord has undertaken to write to me and perhaps he can cover that point as well. It is very important that we get this right. I may have raised a hare but I am not yet convinced that the Minister's response deals with it.