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Energy Bill

I shall use this occasion to stray slightly broader about the offshore area. The Government a week ago announced a great increase in offshore renewable energy—or their desire to create that. Given the difficulty with the withdrawal of Shell on the London Array wind farm, I am interested to understand from the Government how this, the other amendments and the Bill will ensure, through the banding of the renewables obligations, their offshore targets. From where does their confidence come that this new section will be useful, in that offshore is really going to happen through the passage of this Bill? That is an important point that comes out of the amendment.