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Energy Bill

I thank the Minister for his reply in which he talked about feed-in tariffs, which is of great interest. We shall want to deal with that issue after the summer, and obviously a great deal of work will be done between now and then, so I will leave that issue, especially as the Minister gave the noble Baroness, Lady Wilcox, such an eloquent reply. I very much hope that he will arrange a meeting between his officials and the British Hydropower Association so that they will have concluded before the next stage of the Bill and we can discuss the outcome of such deliberations. If they are favourable, it is doubtful whether we would need to come back to this amendment. However, it would be helpful to be copied into the results of those deliberations, which would inform us.