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Energy Bill

We welcome the Government’s great wish to increase renewables and part of that will clearly be offshore. We all have that goal, and I welcome the Minister’s confidence, but just as a person sitting back and looking at what is actually happening, investment seems to be moving from the UK to wind power in the United States, which will now become one of the largest generators. In this global market of investment, there are two constraints: one is the amount of money being invested and the second is the equipment available. Are the Government really confident that as well as the targets, the provision will meet the changed circumstance? That is important to all of us, on all sides of the Chamber, but I am not convinced that the Bill or the Government’s statements actually fulfil that. That is what I was trying to get at here.