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Debate on bill on Friday, 3 July 2009, in the House of Commons, led by Peter Ainsworth. The answering member was David Kidney.

Green Energy (Definition and Promotion) Bill

Green Energy (Definition and Promotion) Bill. No amendments on consideration. Third reading debate. Agreed to on question and Bill passed.

Secondary information

Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
495 c594-623 
Session
2008-09
Department
Department of Energy and Climate Change
Legislative stage
Third reading
Report stage
Procedure
Private members' bills proceedings
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Lord Barker of Battle | 495 c605-6 (Link to this contribution) I have indeed; I have it beside me, in fact. As I said on Second Reading, in promoting local energy...
Simon Hughes | 495 c606 (Link to this contribution) After the Bill has achieved Royal Assent, as I hope that it will, one thing that the hon. Gentleman ...
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Lord Barker of Battle | 495 c606 (Link to this contribution) It is an excellent idea that we should share experiences, because there are a lot of individuals—I h...
David Kidney | 495 c606-7 (Link to this contribution) May I start, as everybody else has done, by congratulating the hon. Member for East Surrey (Mr. Ains...
Simon Hughes | 495 c603-4 (Link to this contribution) That could be a new strategy to try to gain friends and influence people by the nuclear industry—[La...
Lord Barker of Battle | 495 c604-5 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the thoughtful and interesting speeches of the right hon. Member for Holb...
David Kidney | 495 c605 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman's comments about the hon. Member for Wealden (Charles Hendry), who w...
David Kidney | 495 c607-8 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman pre-empts a point that I would have liked to have made later. I will make it now ...
Peter Ainsworth | 495 c607 (Link to this contribution) I am blushing horribly at the Minister's kind remarks, for which I am very grateful. He will be awar...
Simon Hughes | 495 c608 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Minister to his responsibilities. Will he agree to meet, at some time convenient to hi...
Simon Hughes | 495 c602 (Link to this contribution) That is true, and I concede that there has been a strategy, but this new strategy will ensure that o...
David Kidney | 495 c602 (Link to this contribution) To make the obvious point, the Cabinet Office guidelines on consultations are that they should take ...
Simon Hughes | 495 c601-2 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is very kind. I know that my hon. Friend the Member for Northavon (Steve Webb), w...
David Kidney | 495 c602 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman said "again", so he recognises that we have already had a strategy. He mentions t...
Simon Hughes | 495 c601 (Link to this contribution) I wish to take my first opportunity to congratulate you warmly, Mr. Speaker, and wish you all the ve...
Frank Dobson | 495 c603 (Link to this contribution) Tactical nuclear power stations!
Simon Hughes | 495 c603 (Link to this contribution) I do know that, and I read that the hon. Gentleman made that point in Committee—
Peter Ainsworth | 495 c603 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman knows, there is no such thing as small-scale nuclear energy generation.
Simon Hughes | 495 c602-3 (Link to this contribution) My third point is about definitions. We had a debate on Second Reading about the phrase "green jobs"...
Peter Ainsworth | 495 c615 (Link to this contribution) I have said on every occasion when it has been possible to do so that I am certainly not in favour o...
David Kidney | 495 c615-21 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. I certainly exonerate him from any suggestion that he is gung-h...
Lord Barker of Battle | 495 c621 (Link to this contribution) That is all terribly interesting, but the Under-Secretary has been on his feet for nearly an hour. W...
David Kidney | 495 c621-3 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is too cruel. I can assure him that we are almost there. I hope he will agree tha...
Peter Ainsworth | 495 c623 (Link to this contribution) May I thank the Minister for his exhaustive speech? By the time he reached his "live diagnostic tool...
David Kidney | 495 c614-5 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my right hon. Friend. I was about to remind the House that the Bill permits there t...
David Kidney | 495 c610 (Link to this contribution) Of course, with my new responsibility for fuel poverty, I have learned a great deal more about exces...
Frank Dobson | 495 c611 (Link to this contribution) Would it not be difficult for anybody to deny that some amount of climate change is taking place? Mo...
David Kidney | 495 c609-10 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman knows that I am a new Minister, so I am very much in meeting mode. How could I re...
Peter Ainsworth | 495 c610 (Link to this contribution) It has been glorious weather for Wimbledon, although probably rather too hot. I am told that the tem...
David Kidney | 495 c611-4 (Link to this contribution) I agree. This is a fascinating discussion, although we are in danger of going a long way from the Bi...
Frank Dobson | 495 c614 (Link to this contribution) I would not like my hon. Friend to misinterpret what I said as meaning that the great Sir Christophe...
David Kidney | 495 c611 (Link to this contribution) I served on the Joint Committee of both Houses that carried out the pre-legislative scrutiny of the ...
Peter Ainsworth | 495 c611 (Link to this contribution) The Minister makes an extremely important point. Whatever anyone's views about climate change, does ...
Frank Dobson | 495 c614 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to interrupt my hon. Friend in mid-flow. It is likely that a wind turbine or an air sour...
David Kidney | 495 c614 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for that useful clarification. The attitude that he describes ...
Bob Ainsworth | 495 c594 (Link to this contribution) I was coming to exactly that point. There has been a good working relationship, demonstrating that w...
Peter Ainsworth | 495 c594 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time. It has been a privilege and a pleasure to ...
David Kidney | 495 c594 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is now facing his third Minister on the same Bill. Before he leaves the subject o...
Frank Dobson | 495 c600-1 (Link to this contribution) As my constituency is the proud possessor of King's Cross, Euston and St. Pancras stations, I have a...
Frank Dobson | 495 c598-600 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree. This point is probably most starkly illustrated at present in the field of photovo...
Simon Hughes | 495 c600 (Link to this contribution) Obviously I know the site well, and I agree entirely with the right hon. Gentleman's suggestion. Wou...
Frank Dobson | 495 c597-8 (Link to this contribution) As this is the first time that I have spoken in the Chamber since you were elevated to the Chair, Mr...
Justine Greening | 495 c598 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman raises an important point, and I would like to take this opportunity to put...
Peter Ainsworth | 495 c596-7 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a very good point, and I made it clear in Committee that I was disappointed...
Peter Ainsworth | 495 c596 (Link to this contribution) I should make it clear that I am certainly not speaking for my constituency, although I may well be ...
Peter Ainsworth | 495 c594-6 (Link to this contribution) That is rare praise for a private Member's Bill. It may have something to do with the fact that the ...
Andrew Dismore | 495 c594 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on getting this far. One of his master strokes was asking me to be...
David Howarth | 495 c596 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on getting this far with his Bill. He was right to say that all-pa...
Peter Ainsworth | 495 c601 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way and I apologise to you, Mr. Speaker, for failing ...
Subjects
Conservation Climate change Energy Fuel poverty Planning permission Microgeneration Standards Sustainable development Renewable energy Carbon emissions
Legislation
Green Energy (Definition and Promotion) Bill 2008-09
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