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Energy Review

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

448 c1261-80 

Session

2005-06

Department

Department of Trade and Industry

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

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Proceeding contributions

Lord Darling of Roulanish | 448 c1278 (Link to this contribution) Along with the Minister for Energy, my hon. Friend the Member for Croydon, North (Malcolm Wicks), I ...

Brian Iddon | 448 c1277-8 (Link to this contribution) Yesterday, representatives of the heavy energy using industries came to a meeting in the House organ...

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Lord Darling of Roulanish | 448 c1277 (Link to this contribution) I agree that the framework needs to be completed and consensus is highly desirable, but we shall hav...

Bernard Jenkin | 448 c1277 (Link to this contribution) Does the Secretary of State welcome the fact that ““consensus”” seems to be the word on the lips of ...

Lord Darling of Roulanish | 448 c1278 (Link to this contribution) I thought that the hon. Gentleman was going to make a further proposal, but there we are. It is impo...

Nick Hurd | 448 c1278 (Link to this contribution) One of the greatest risks to climate stability is the degree to which we allow dirty coal to be burn...

Lord Darling of Roulanish | 448 c1277 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right: there has been an increase in the amount of gas and coal burnt. That was es...

Michael Connarty | 448 c1277 (Link to this contribution) I welcome what the Secretary of State said about facing up to responsibilities to the United Kingdom...

Mike Weir | 448 c1276 (Link to this contribution) My colleagues and I are pleased that the Government are to encourage the use of electricity near whe...

Lord Darling of Roulanish | 448 c1279 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his support. He is right that solar panels have made a contribut...

Gordon Prentice | 448 c1279 (Link to this contribution) Will the private sector bear the whole cost of providing security at nuclear plants? Would another C...

Lord Darling of Roulanish | 448 c1279 (Link to this contribution) I noticed that the e-mail from the hon. Member for New Forest, West said that wind power did not get...

Lord Darling of Roulanish | 448 c1280 (Link to this contribution) I have said that people coming forward with proposals to build a nuclear power station will be respo...

Lord Mann | 448 c1278 (Link to this contribution) As a matter of urgency, will the Secretary of State encourage EDF Energy and UK Coal to resolve thei...

Vincent Cable | 448 c1279 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State spell out the Government’s responsibilities when the market price of ele...

Lord Darling of Roulanish | 448 c1278 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a sensible suggestion. Part of the rationale behind the coal forum is to try to...

Ian Lucas | 448 c1279 (Link to this contribution) I warmly welcome the Government’s statement that they will provide strong support for on-site electr...

Lord Darling of Roulanish | 448 c1279 (Link to this contribution) The system that we have in place should ensure that we have viable generating companies. The hon. Ge...

Joan Ruddock | 448 c1274-5 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my right hon. Friend on the boost that he has today given to energy efficiency and re...

Lord Darling of Roulanish | 448 c1274 (Link to this contribution) I agree. It is evident that, without the renewables obligation, there would not have been even the c...

Ian Taylor | 448 c1274 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State is right to say that there would not be renewable energy use if there were no...

Lord Darling of Roulanish | 448 c1274 (Link to this contribution) I have answered that point, and in view of the fact that so many Members still wish to speak, I do n...

Jeremy Corbyn | 448 c1274 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State assure the House that there will be no subsidy whatever to the nuclear i...

Lord Darling of Roulanish | 448 c1273-4 (Link to this contribution) I think that the hon. Gentleman will find that the Treasury is in complete agreement with anything t...

Robert Smith | 448 c1273 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the fact that the Secretary of State did at least say on this occasion that we should maxi...

Lord Darling of Roulanish | 448 c1273 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his welcome for much of what is in the review. During his nine y...

Lord Darling of Roulanish | 448 c1273 (Link to this contribution) As the review document says, there are a number of things that we need to change, some of which may ...

Speaker | 448 c1276 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman has asked one question. If he wasted some words in his preface, that is to...

Jamie Reed | 448 c1276 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Secretary of State’s announcement, in particular on behalf of the 40,000 nuclear worke...

Lord Darling of Roulanish | 448 c1276 (Link to this contribution) I think that that constituted a general welcome for our proposals and I accept it in that spirit. Th...

Lord Darling of Roulanish | 448 c1275 (Link to this contribution) On guaranteed prices, no. My hon. Friend will of course be aware of the European directive on insura...

Rob Marris | 448 c1275 (Link to this contribution) I welcome much of the statement, particularly what was said about reducing energy demand, but of cou...

Lord Darling of Roulanish | 448 c1276 (Link to this contribution) I can see now that the right hon. Gentleman must have been one of those whom the hon. Member for New...

David Heathcoat-Amory | 448 c1276 (Link to this contribution) The limp and tentative language on nuclear power in the Secretary of State’s statement is a major di...

Lord Darling of Roulanish | 448 c1275 (Link to this contribution) I acknowledge my hon. Friend’s strongly felt opposition to new nuclear plant and I acknowledge that,...

Lord Darling of Roulanish | 448 c1275 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Lady on adopting a slightly clearer position than did the Conservative Front...

Julie Kirkbride | 448 c1275 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State said today that he is giving the green light to the nuclear industry, that he...

Lord Darling of Roulanish | 448 c1271 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is quite right that coal has made a substantial contribution. We relied on it very he...

Lord Touhig | 448 c1270-1 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend’s statement recognises that there is no single solution to our energy requireme...

Lord Darling of Roulanish | 448 c1269 (Link to this contribution) If the Conservatives have problems with consensus within their party, so do the Liberals. I can only...

Speaker | 448 c1269 (Link to this contribution) Order. We are now into Back Benchers’ time. I remind all hon. Members that they must put only one su...

Lord Darling of Roulanish | 448 c1266-7 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman says, ““Get on with it””, but I suggest that he start in his own backyard. In Jan...

Ed Davey | 448 c1267-9 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for his statement and for making an early copy available to me. Three...

Peter Luff | 448 c1270 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the House will be given an early opportunity to debate the report at great length, as it...

Lord Darling of Roulanish | 448 c1270 (Link to this contribution) The EU emissions trading scheme is, at the moment, the only scheme, so I believe that we should inve...

David Chaytor | 448 c1270 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my right hon. Friend on delivering a measured statement this afternoon. Will he clari...

Lord Darling of Roulanish | 448 c1270 (Link to this contribution) The statement does mean that they are expected to meet the full share of those costs, which I would ...

Michael Jack | 448 c1272-3 (Link to this contribution) The nuclear fuel workers in my constituency will welcome the Secretary of State’s remarks today on t...

Lord Maples | 448 c1271 (Link to this contribution) Can the Secretary of State foresee any circumstances in which he could meet his carbon dioxide reduc...

Lord Darling of Roulanish | 448 c1271 (Link to this contribution) Without that generation it would certainly make it more difficult to meet that commitment, which is ...

Michael Meacher | 448 c1271 (Link to this contribution) When the energy gap left by phasing out Magnox and advanced gas-cooled reactor nuclear power station...

Speaker | 448 c1272 (Link to this contribution) Order. We must be fair to other hon. Members.

Lord Darling of Roulanish | 448 c1272 (Link to this contribution) I think that I know where my right hon. Friend is coming from in this argument. As I said, in the li...

Lord Deben | 448 c1272 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State will know that hydrofluorocarbons will produce about 4 per cent. of our emiss...

Gavin Strang | 448 c1272 (Link to this contribution) If economic changes were to make nuclear power significantly more costly—for example, because of con...

Lord Darling of Roulanish | 448 c1272 (Link to this contribution) As I told the House earlier, the Government’s policy on all electricity generation is that it is for...

Lord Darling of Roulanish | 448 c1266 (Link to this contribution) Let me start with the hon. Gentleman’s first point—the desirability of political consensus. It would...

Alan Duncan | 448 c1265-6 (Link to this contribution) The statement proposes six new consultations and the convening of a new forum, and says that there i...

Alan Duncan | 448 c1266 (Link to this contribution) Get on with it.

Lord Darling of Roulanish | 448 c1261-4 (Link to this contribution) With your permission, Mr. Speaker, I would like to make a statement on the energy review which was a...

Alan Duncan | 448 c1264-5 (Link to this contribution) First, I thank the Secretary of State for his courtesy in giving us advance sight of his statement. ...

Speaker | 448 c1265 (Link to this contribution) Order. Let the hon. Gentleman speak.

Richard Ottaway | 448 c1280 (Link to this contribution) Given what Labour Members on the Benches behind the Secretary of State have had to say, I do not thi...

Lord Darling of Roulanish | 448 c1280 (Link to this contribution) indicated assent.

Richard Ottaway | 448 c1280 (Link to this contribution) I see that the right hon. Gentleman understands. Will he explain what his conclusions are?

Speaker | 448 c1280 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am afraid that we must move on. No doubt we will come back to this subject in due course.

Lord Darling of Roulanish | 448 c1280 (Link to this contribution) Of course I understand what co-firing is. It is referred to in the energy review, and it is somethin...

David Leslie Taylor | 448 c1280 (Link to this contribution) Approximately 800 million tonnes of coal lie under my county of Leicestershire—part of which I repre...

Lord Darling of Roulanish | 448 c1280 (Link to this contribution) I agree that we need to press ahead as fast we can, but the answer to my hon. Friend’s question depe...

Elliot Morley | 448 c1273 (Link to this contribution) There is a great deal to welcome in the review, particularly the emphasis on energy efficiency, rene...

Lord Darling of Roulanish | 448 c1276-7 (Link to this contribution) The internationalist tendency of the Scottish National party is there for all to see. The SNP is say...

Lord Bellingham | 448 c1279 (Link to this contribution) Is the Secretary of State aware of how disruptive offshore wind farms are to inshore fisheries? Is h...

Lord Darling of Roulanish | 448 c1272 (Link to this contribution) I know of the right hon. Gentleman’s concern about these things. The Government took the view that t...

Notes

Correction to figures made on 14 July 2006 at 448 c92WS

Subjects

Conservation Combined heat and power Air pollution Climate change Carbon dioxide Energy Electricity generation Energy supply Oil Natural gas Nuclear power stations Pollution control Renewable energy Renewable transport fuel obligation Energy Policy Progress Review

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