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Energy Bill

I thank the Minister for his spirited defence of the Government’s position. He has obviously been told to resist, and he did so with great gusto. Before I withdraw the amendment, I would like to recount that in order to discuss this and many other issues, I went to Ofgem and said that one of the issues that we might raise is the powers of the regulator. The person I was talking to said, quite rightly, that that is a job for Parliament. It is a job for Parliament. It is a job for this Committee to look at this again. The Minister should not take lightly the implied—well, it was not so implied—