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Energy: Renewables (EUC Report)

My Lords, this has been a very interesting debate. I thank the Minister and the Department for Energy for achieving what is almost a parliamentary record: responding within four weeks to a Select Committee report. On behalf of the committee I am most grateful for that speedy and comprehensive response, in so far as it is possible to give one before publication of a detailed policy in the spring. I suggest to your Lordships that that is when we should return to this subject either in Select Committee or in your Lordships’ House or in both. I also thank the noble Lords on the two Front Benches, who are rarely thanked in these debates: the noble Lord, Lord Teverson, and, in particular, my noble friend Lord Dixon-Smith, with his vast experience. I also thank my noble friend Lord James of Blackheath, the noble Lord, Lord Bradshaw, and the noble Lord, Lord Rowe-Beddoe, who sends his apologies because he has been involved in, as I understand it, a semi-judicial hearing today. It was particularly kind of him to come and contribute to the debate. I thank your Lordships. The state of parliamentary knowledge has been advanced. On Question, Motion agreed to.