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Energy Bill

I would like to finish the point. If the noble Lord wanted to make an adequate speech, he had the chance. My point is that, at the moment, the Energy Retail Association members have been arm-wrestling among themselves for the best part of about nine months and have failed to come up with a scheme to which all their members will sign up. The utilities do not really know what they are doing and at the same time are continuing to install the old meters because they need to be put in for safety purposes and other reasons. We have a problem but it is rather complex. Do we start at the end we have just arrived at where there are new meters, do we go to the oldest ones, or do we go to the ones in between which are just about to be done? Each company has a different set of priorities; each has a different set of ambitions about where they want to start and how they want to do it. Therefore, at the moment, it is very dangerous—