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Debate on Wednesday, 30 June 2010, in the House of Commons, led by Lord Barker of Battle. The answering member was Joan Ruddock.

Energy Efficiency

Debate on a motion that this House has considered the matter of progress and prospects in energy efficiency.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
512 c870-964 
Session
2010-12
Department
Department of Energy and Climate Change
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Tessa Munt | 512 c908-13 (Link to this contribution) It is an honour to follow the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon) and to address the House for ...
Baroness Fullbrook | 512 c902-5 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for allowing me to make my maiden speech today. I congratulate you ...
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Richard Drax | 512 c898-900 (Link to this contribution) Thank you very much, Madam Deputy Speaker, for calling me to make my maiden speech today. I follow d...
Mary Glindon | 512 c900-2 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for allowing me to make my maiden speech during this debate. First,...
Lord Whitehead | 512 c929 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for that clarification. He anticipates, to a little extent, some of the things ...
Lord Barker of Battle | 512 c930 (Link to this contribution) The beauty of the green deal as conceived and as we intend to implement it is that it applies to all...
Lord Whitehead | 512 c930-1 (Link to this contribution) Again, I thank the Minister for that clarification. The beauty of the concert that we are about to h...
Lord Whitehead | 512 c927 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises the interesting point of the possible life expectancy of nuclear power plants....
Mark Tami | 512 c927-8 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend that even if we start building nuclear power stations now, there will be...
Lord Whitehead | 512 c928-9 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is tempting me into an entirely different debate, in which there are very interesting...
Lord Barker of Battle | 512 c931 (Link to this contribution) On Warm Front, let me assure the hon. Gentleman that more than £300 million is available for a progr...
Thomas Docherty | 512 c927 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has not mentioned the issue of life extensions to existing nuclear power stations suc...
Neil Carmichael | 512 c925-6 (Link to this contribution) I certainly recognise the public expenditure pressures on the decommissioning costs at Berkeley, bec...
Louise Mensch | 512 c926 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making some excellent points about nuclear power. Does he agree that in order to a...
Neil Carmichael | 512 c925 (Link to this contribution) I concur with everything that my hon. Friend has said. We need to plan ahead and recognise that even...
Thomas Docherty | 512 c925 (Link to this contribution) I used to work at Berkeley power station a few years ago, so I am familiar with it, and I can assure...
Damian Collins | 512 c925 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making some important points about nuclear power. Does he agree that sensible plan...
Lord Barker of Battle | 512 c924 (Link to this contribution) May I assure my hon. Friend that although I visited his constituency while we were in opposition, I ...
Neil Carmichael | 512 c924-5 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister very much. That is more than worth the time I waited to make this speech. I wa...
Neil Carmichael | 512 c926-7 (Link to this contribution) We certainly do need to have localism in our planning system. It is great that this Government are s...
Lord Whitehead | 512 c927 (Link to this contribution) I have detected that in recent contributions we seem to be falling into something of a nuclear idyll...
Thomas Docherty | 512 c914 (Link to this contribution) Is my hon. Friend aware that a large number of coal power stations are also going to close? The Scot...
Barry Gardiner | 512 c914-5 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is entirely right, and the example that he gives illustrates the extent of the gap op...
Lord Barker of Battle | 512 c915-6 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is an acknowledged expert and has a distinguished record in the field of woodland...
Barry Gardiner | 512 c916 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for that offer, and I would be happy to take him up on it. The wood f...
Louise Mensch | 512 c917-8 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to be called in the debate and to follow such excellent maiden speeches, most recen...
Louise Mensch | 512 c919 (Link to this contribution) I am in favour of nuclear power. I am in favour of the safe disposal of nuclear waste. I am not in f...
Speaker | 512 c919 (Link to this contribution) I am new to this job, so I shall have to have another look at "Erskine May" to see what it says abou...
Nia Griffith | 512 c920-2 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker; you have taken the words out of my mouth. Perhaps the Minister will pl...
Neil Carmichael | 512 c922-4 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for calling me to speak. I missed the opening speeches, and I am very ...
Lord Barker of Battle | 512 c898 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady knows that I hold her in high regard, but that has increased even more, as I had not p...
Jim Shannon | 512 c905-8 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate you, Madam Deputy Speaker, on your elevation. I also congratulate the three maiden sp...
Barry Gardiner | 512 c913-4 (Link to this contribution) May I take this opportunity to welcome you, Mr Deputy Speaker, to your new elected role? I look forw...
Meg Munn | 512 c896-7 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Ministers, the hon. Members for Bexhill and Battle (Gregory Barker) and for Wealden (C...
Martin Horwood | 512 c893-4 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. One answer is clearly the green deal, whic...
Thomas Docherty | 512 c893 (Link to this contribution) I am slightly confused. Given that the hon. Gentleman supports deep and savage cuts to the training ...
Martin Horwood | 512 c894-5 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. We should be wary that over-complication and over-prescription could risk the defeat of our...
Lord Barker of Battle | 512 c894 (Link to this contribution) That did not quite make it into the coalition agreement.
Martin Horwood | 512 c892 (Link to this contribution) Not on that one; I am sorry. All the parties, and even the Labour Government in the end, were worki...
Caroline Lucas | 512 c892 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Martin Horwood | 512 c892-3 (Link to this contribution) I am sure the hon. Lady is right to emphasise the importance of communication. I was going to go on ...
Anne Main | 512 c892 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for giving way on that point, because under the previous Government communica...
Martin Horwood | 512 c892 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for his statement. He was absolutely right to highlight our collective failure ...
Joan Ruddock | 512 c891-2 (Link to this contribution) It was because there were unprecedented fuel prices. No Government could have instituted a programme...
Christopher Pincher | 512 c891 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Lady speaks about fuel poverty, which is terrible for many people. But despite what t...
Joan Ruddock | 512 c890-1 (Link to this contribution) When I was speaking about the partners, I may have left out B&Q, which is also participating in the ...
Speaker | 512 c889 (Link to this contribution) Order. Please may we have brief interventions as many Members wish to speak? I appreciate that the M...
Lord Barker of Battle | 512 c889 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Lady is absolutely right: finance is only part of the issue, as we found in Kirklees....
Joan Ruddock | 512 c889 (Link to this contribution) There is no dispute between us on that matter, and I have not suggested that there is. I asked the M...
Lord Barker of Battle | 512 c889 (Link to this contribution) Of course the Government will look at all such evidence, where it is helpful, and learn what we can....
Joan Ruddock | 512 c888-9 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend, who always manages to read more comprehensively than I do. I meant ...
Lord Whitehead | 512 c888 (Link to this contribution) In order to dispel some of the wild hyperbole on the matter, I hope it will be helpful to observe th...
Joan Ruddock | 512 c888 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for the points that he makes, particularly the telling one about the...
Tobias Ellwood | 512 c938 (Link to this contribution) Where do we go with that? Do we continue going back in time and blaming previous Governments? In the...
Damian Collins | 512 c938 (Link to this contribution) In his earlier remarks about nuclear power, my hon. Friend was kind enough to mention Dungeness powe...
Tobias Ellwood | 512 c937 (Link to this contribution) I actually agree with the hon. Lady, whom I very much welcome to the Chamber. She will add an awful ...
Nia Griffith | 512 c937 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman please list all the investment in power stations between 1979 and 1997? He w...
Caroline Lucas | 512 c938 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Tobias Ellwood | 512 c938 (Link to this contribution) That—that is—[Laughter.] That is a moot point, but it is on the record. I am trying to get on to th...
Mark Tami | 512 c938 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change seems totally opposed to nuclear power and has ...
Tobias Ellwood | 512 c938 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a powerful argument. The people best educated about these issues are those with...
Tobias Ellwood | 512 c936 (Link to this contribution) Then we have to ask whether we are a charity to keep the unions going, or are we—[Interruption.] Opp...
Damian Collins | 512 c936 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes the point that sources of energy change. Some sources become exhausted, be they...
Tobias Ellwood | 512 c936 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. The Labour party is now in denial on this front. I will probably...
Chris Williamson | 512 c936 (Link to this contribution) Would the hon. Gentleman care to comment on the fact that while his predecessors were smashing the m...
Caroline Lucas | 512 c937 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a statement in favour of nuclear power, but it is not based on the facts. C...
Tobias Ellwood | 512 c936 (Link to this contribution) Those mining strikes, which almost brought Britain to a halt, took place when I was in shorts at sch...
Mark Tami | 512 c937 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way. Does he not accept that gas and coal are imported because...
Tobias Ellwood | 512 c935 (Link to this contribution) That is all the more reason to make passionate speeches to ensure that everyone in Britain understan...
Mark Tami | 512 c935 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman. Will he speak to some in his own party in north Wales who not only ...
Joan Ruddock | 512 c935 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman has had to provoke me. The fact is that the companies that were g...
Tobias Ellwood | 512 c935 (Link to this contribution) I thought that that would prompt a reaction.
Tobias Ellwood | 512 c935 (Link to this contribution) I knew that that would provoke a response from the hon. Lady. We had about six days' supply left, an...
Thomas Docherty | 512 c936 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for a second bite of the cherry. He mentions that we now import ...
Tobias Ellwood | 512 c936 (Link to this contribution) I am having flashbacks here. I recall the hon. Lady making the same point during the debate. The poi...
Lord Whitehead | 512 c931 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for that further clarification, but his comments support my feeling that there ...
Lord Barker of Battle | 512 c931 (Link to this contribution) I am not in a position to make a statement about the RHI today, but I can assure the right hon. Gent...
Lord Whitehead | 512 c931-3 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for that intervention, and for promoting me to the Privy Council. I look forwar...
Thomas Docherty | 512 c934 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman mentions the Gulf of Mexico. Does he accept that when the Government talk about c...
Tobias Ellwood | 512 c933-4 (Link to this contribution) "Vote blue, go green" was one of our lasting slogans from the general election, so I welcome the Min...
Mark Tami | 512 c935 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Tobias Ellwood | 512 c934 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes his point, but there is a distinction between the regulations that are expe...
Tobias Ellwood | 512 c935 (Link to this contribution) After I have made the point. I visited Blackpool recently and saw the wind turbines out at sea. I as...
Louise Mensch | 512 c952 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that this is an overlooked aspect of renewable energy, and would he we...
Baroness Berger | 512 c948-9 (Link to this contribution) May I welcome you to your post, Mr Deputy Speaker, and the Ministers to theirs? I also congratulate ...
Sarah Newton | 512 c949-50 (Link to this contribution) Thank you very much for letting me join this important debate, Mr Deputy Speaker. I wish to support ...
Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park | 512 c950 (Link to this contribution) For a long time, energy efficiency has had Cinderella status in the energy debate, despite the fact ...
Sarah Newton | 512 c950 (Link to this contribution) I would be delighted to support my hon. Friend. It is important that schools, hospitals and commerci...
Lord Barker of Battle | 512 c950 (Link to this contribution) May I quickly assure both my hon. Friends that the commercial sector—particularly small and medium-s...
Sarah Newton | 512 c950-1 (Link to this contribution) That is extremely welcome news. That is marvellous, and—to return to my ground heat pump manufacture...
Chris Williamson | 512 c951-2 (Link to this contribution) May I start by congratulating all hon. Members who have made their maiden speeches today? Unfortunat...
David Morris | 512 c948 (Link to this contribution) I totally agree. What the public need to be educated in is how nuclear power can benefit this and ot...
Thomas Docherty | 512 c948 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has touched on an important point—education—so does he agree that our schools hav...
David Morris | 512 c947 (Link to this contribution) A lot has been said about renewables, about where we are going as a country with our energy policy a...
Thomas Docherty | 512 c946-7 (Link to this contribution) I suspect that if the hon. Lady looked at the number of wind farms built on time and on budget she w...
David Morris | 512 c947 (Link to this contribution) Exactly. It is because of the wind, but the wind comes in from the sea, so why do we not put battali...
Emily Thornberry | 512 c957-60 (Link to this contribution) It is a great honour to close this debate for my party from the Dispatch Box, and this is the first ...
Charles Hendry | 512 c961-4 (Link to this contribution) Let me begin by warmly welcoming the hon. Member for Islington South and Finsbury (Emily Thornberry)...
Caroline Lucas | 512 c954-7 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Minister's statement today, not least because I was getting a bit worried about the Go...
Chris Williamson | 512 c952-4 (Link to this contribution) I do not know the details of the specific scheme to which the hon. Lady refers, but her description ...
Tobias Ellwood | 512 c941-2 (Link to this contribution) I will take your guidance, Mr Deputy Speaker, and focus on how daylight saving is very energy-effici...
Tobias Ellwood | 512 c942 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend. I hope that hon. Members, convinced by what I have just said, will come on t...
Barry Gardiner | 512 c943 (Link to this contribution) I would be delighted to expand on the question of imported biomass. It can play no sensible role in ...
Thomas Docherty | 512 c942-3 (Link to this contribution) I begin by congratulating all Members who have made their maiden speeches today. They have been fant...
Thomas Docherty | 512 c943 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend, who, it is fair to say, is an expert on this issue. He is entirely ...
Thomas Docherty | 512 c944 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his thoughtful intervention, but I do not agree with him. I believe t...
Guy Opperman | 512 c943 (Link to this contribution) On the renewable obligations certificate in relation to biomass, the effect of the subsidy introduce...
Caroline Lucas | 512 c939 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way; I appreciate that he is trying to make progress....
Tobias Ellwood | 512 c939 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is new to the House and I do not wish to be disparaging about what she has just said. ...
Caroline Lucas | 512 c938-9 (Link to this contribution) I cannot resist either. I have two points to make. First, Dungeness is built on a floodplain; it is ...
Tobias Ellwood | 512 c940 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman could hold on for a second and let me make a bit of progress, I will be deligh...
Tobias Ellwood | 512 c939-40 (Link to this contribution) On that I stop agreeing with the hon. Lady. We are not talking about a technology that may or may no...
Speaker | 512 c941 (Link to this contribution) Order. May I remind the hon. Gentleman that the debate is about energy efficiency, not road deaths, ...
Tobias Ellwood | 512 c940-1 (Link to this contribution) I do not agree with the hon. Gentleman's final point, as I spent much of last year doing a study on ...
Thomas Docherty | 512 c940 (Link to this contribution) Let me gently point out to the hon. Gentleman that slightly north of Bournemouth there is great oppo...
Speaker | 512 c945 (Link to this contribution) Order. I can assure hon. Members that I did not sell Westinghouse.
Guy Opperman | 512 c945 (Link to this contribution) You make this point about Forgemasters, but why did you sell Westinghouse?
Barry Gardiner | 512 c946 (Link to this contribution) I did sell Westinghouse. I was the Minister responsible at the time, and I remember being told by of...
Thomas Docherty | 512 c945 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps we will just have to say that I think that the hon. Gentleman is wrong on this one. The real...
Damian Collins | 512 c945 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman said that the money was a loan, but there was only an offer of a loan—an offer th...
Thomas Docherty | 512 c946 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that intervention, as it sums up entirely the correct decision taken on the basis ...
Thomas Docherty | 512 c946 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful. I do not have that long left; I cannot list them all.
Thomas Docherty | 512 c945 (Link to this contribution) Just so that we are absolutely clear, we are talking about deep coal mining. That is where vast rese...
Guy Opperman | 512 c944 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman seems to be indicating that without Government intervention there will be no furt...
Thomas Docherty | 512 c944 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for clarifying his position, but his Ministers will have to come...
Tobias Ellwood | 512 c944 (Link to this contribution) I am trying to recall what I said, but I went on a bit and I am not sure that I remember everything,...
Thomas Docherty | 512 c945 (Link to this contribution) Indeed, Sheffield, Hallam is not a Labour marginal; however, given the cuts that this Government are...
Emily Thornberry | 512 c945 (Link to this contribution) Sheffield, Hallam is not even a Labour marginal.
Thomas Docherty | 512 c945 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for making that intervention, because it allows me yet again to ...
Tobias Ellwood | 512 c945 (Link to this contribution) We hear almost daily about this money that was supposed to go to places such as Sheffield Forgemaste...
David Wright | 512 c872 (Link to this contribution) The Minister and I served together on the Environmental Audit Committee a few years ago. Will he com...
Lord Barker of Battle | 512 c872 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right: the boiler scrappage scheme was highly effective. Although it was not a...
Speaker | 512 c872 (Link to this contribution) Order. May I interrupt the Minister to try to help a new Member? I very gently say to the hon. Membe...
Chris Williamson | 512 c872 (Link to this contribution) Can the Minister confirm that the coalition parties will agree to implement the previous Government'...
Lord Barker of Battle | 512 c872 (Link to this contribution) That is an important target. We are committed to carbon neutrality, and I know that my colleagues in...
Lord Barker of Battle | 512 c871-2 (Link to this contribution) Obviously, I take on board the hon. Gentleman's comments, and he is an expert in this field, but the...
Barry Gardiner | 512 c871 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Minister to his position. He has taken a long and careful interest in the matters for ...
Mary Creagh | 512 c871 (Link to this contribution) I have received a letter from Mr Cameron Holroyd of Kingspan Solar in my constituency, which manufac...
Lord Barker of Battle | 512 c871 (Link to this contribution) Renewable heat is a renewable form of generation; it is not equivalent to energy efficiency. However...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 512 c870 (Link to this contribution) Using 1 kW of electricity, an air source heat pump can generate 2.5 kW of heat and a ground source h...
Lord Barker of Battle | 512 c871 (Link to this contribution) And the hon. Gentleman would be absolutely right to do so. Looking beyond homes, about one in 10 of...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 512 c870 (Link to this contribution) On the point of energy efficiency in comparison with Sweden, I understand that there is considerable...
Lord Barker of Battle | 512 c870 (Link to this contribution) We are very keen on heat pumps, but those pumps are not an energy-efficiency device; they are a rene...
Lord Barker of Battle | 512 c870 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That this House has considered the matter of progress and prospects in energy efficie...
Alan Reid | 512 c876 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Minister to the Government. I was delighted by his announcement the CERT scheme will b...
Lord Barker of Battle | 512 c876 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Lady is right and, of course, this is not a black and white issue. However, the botto...
Joan Ruddock | 512 c876 (Link to this contribution) A vast number of light bulbs were sent out, but does the Minister deny that that was an appropriate ...
Lord Barker of Battle | 512 c875-6 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right to say that some very exciting developments are taking place in lighting...
Barry Gardiner | 512 c877 (Link to this contribution) Would the Minister be good enough to clarify whether, when he says families with children, he means ...
Lord Barker of Battle | 512 c876-7 (Link to this contribution) That is a very good point. I think that my colleagues in the Department for Communities and Local Go...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 512 c876 (Link to this contribution) Usually, house construction is a great battle between insulation, as the Minister has mentioned, and...
Lord Barker of Battle | 512 c874-5 (Link to this contribution) That is an excellent subject for an Adjournment debate, but perhaps we have just had it. I entirely ...
Martin Horwood | 512 c875 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Minister to his responsibilities. On low-energy light bulbs, he is right to criticise ...
Lord Barker of Battle | 512 c873 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. My hon. Friend makes an excellent point. I am very interested in such matters, and think...
Neil Parish | 512 c872 (Link to this contribution) Thank you for your advice, Mr Speaker. My hon. Friend has talked about energy saving on the contine...
Lord Barker of Battle | 512 c873 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is an expert in this field. He is chair of the all-party group on clean coal, so I sp...
Brian Binley | 512 c873 (Link to this contribution) On innovation, the Minister will respect the fact that coal remains a vital part of our energy requi...
Lord Barker of Battle | 512 c874 (Link to this contribution) That is a very interesting point. I believe that my hon. Friend the Member for Castle Point (Rebecca...
Tobias Ellwood | 512 c873-4 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend talks about game changers, so may I recommend another important one, which will cost ...
Mary Creagh | 512 c874 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for giving way to me for a second time. On his point about innovation ...
Speaker | 512 c874 (Link to this contribution) Order. May I gently suggest to the House that we also require efficiency in interventions, which are...
Lord Barker of Battle | 512 c880 (Link to this contribution) No; I hope that by the time we have finished explaining it properly and getting over this new paradi...
Mark Tami | 512 c880 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for giving way. I hear what he says, but is not the danger, as the hon. Member ...
Lord Barker of Battle | 512 c879 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way to the hon. Gentleman before he bursts.
Lord Barker of Battle | 512 c879 (Link to this contribution) I will give way. We cannot guarantee that this will be the case in all instances, because behaviour...
Lord Barker of Battle | 512 c879 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman will allow me to continue. I am risking scrambling my speech by jumping ahead,...
Mark Tami | 512 c879 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister give way on that point?
Lord Barker of Battle | 512 c879 (Link to this contribution) First, I welcome the hon. Lady to the debate. I am sure that she will be a key—and welcome—feature o...
Lord Barker of Battle | 512 c878 (Link to this contribution) Of course, CERT is an obligation on the fuel companies and is not part of the Treasury tax and spend...
Mark Durkan | 512 c878 (Link to this contribution) Given the importance that the Minister rightly attaches to fuel poverty and the categories that he h...
Caroline Lucas | 512 c878-9 (Link to this contribution) The Kirklees example is an excellent one, and Green councillors have been instrumental in that. They...
Lord Barker of Battle | 512 c877 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will know that data sharing is a very difficult issue, to which there is no easy ...
Lord Whitehead | 512 c877 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman intend to provide any additional facilities for ensuring that the extra cate...
Lord Barker of Battle | 512 c878 (Link to this contribution) I am very happy to confirm that for my hon. Friend, who takes a keen interest in these matters. I ca...
Anne Main | 512 c877-8 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister outline whether people in receipt of the higher disability living allowance, who o...
Lord Barker of Battle | 512 c877 (Link to this contribution) It is targeted at all people with children—that is, at all households where there are young children...
Baroness Berger | 512 c877 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister kindly let us know whether it will extend to pensioners as well?
Lord Barker of Battle | 512 c877 (Link to this contribution) Yes indeed. I think I mentioned pensioners in my speech and I can give the hon. Lady that assurance....
Joan Ruddock | 512 c887-8 (Link to this contribution) Again, I am sorry to say that the hon. Gentleman knows better than that. Nobody disputes the fact th...
Barry Gardiner | 512 c888 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend remind the House that notwithstanding the dash for gas, the achievements d...
Joan Ruddock | 512 c887 (Link to this contribution) I am so sorry. I was going to—I do—welcome the hon. Lady to the House, but her intervention is not w...
Martin Horwood | 512 c887 (Link to this contribution) In the same vein as the hon. Member for Brighton, Pavilion (Caroline Lucas), I must point out that t...
Lord Barker of Battle | 512 c885 (Link to this contribution) The fact is that in the consultation that the right hon. Lady oversaw, it was assumed that 10% of th...
Joan Ruddock | 512 c885 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is absolutely wrong. Of course the schemes were never intended to provide insulat...
Caroline Lucas | 512 c887 (Link to this contribution) According to the Committee on Climate Change, the emission reductions achieved in the past year have...
Joan Ruddock | 512 c886-7 (Link to this contribution) Again, I have to tell the Minister that I think he is rather mistaken. The fact is that, whatever hi...
Lord Barker of Battle | 512 c886 (Link to this contribution) The problem with the programmes that the right hon. Lady has specified, which are all good in themse...
Joan Ruddock | 512 c886 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is talking about one small element of one of the programmes. We had a consultatio...
Lord Barker of Battle | 512 c881-2 (Link to this contribution) That is what I am saying, with the caveat that there are two big variables, the first of which is be...
Caroline Lucas | 512 c882 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for his support of the 10:10 campaign, which aims for 10% cuts in 2010...
Lord Barker of Battle | 512 c882-3 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is absolutely right. The important thing about our 10% cut is that it is a commitment ...
Joan Ruddock | 512 c884-5 (Link to this contribution) I begin by welcoming the Minister of State, the hon. Member for Bexhill and Battle (Gregory Barker),...
Lord Barker of Battle | 512 c885 (Link to this contribution) It is not that we cannot afford free insulation; I have made it very clear that for vulnerable group...
Barry Gardiner | 512 c880 (Link to this contribution) The final point that the Minister made is particularly important, but let me go back to the main poi...
Lord Whitehead | 512 c880-1 (Link to this contribution) To make sure that the customer makes a net profit out of green deal investment, the Minister will pr...
Lord Barker of Battle | 512 c880 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to reassure the hon. Gentleman that no such guarantee is involved or required. I have had...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 512 c881 (Link to this contribution) I am listening quite closely to what the Minister says about insulation, carbon footprints and new f...
Lord Barker of Battle | 512 c881 (Link to this contribution) It has never been the intention for the green deal to encompass, in its purest form, microgeneration...
Lord Whitehead | 512 c918 (Link to this contribution) I have listened carefully to the hon. Lady. She is in favour of nuclear but not in her area, because...
David Morris | 512 c948 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Lady for her comments, and they are good comments, but we are talking about energy ...
Caroline Lucas | 512 c946 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry, but I cannot hear all this talk about nuclear power without feeling the urge to leap up—...
Lord Barker of Battle | 512 c929 (Link to this contribution) This is a very important point. The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. We do not for a minute expec...
Meg Munn | 512 c898 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for that very generous offer. I am delighted that in securing the opportunity t...
Tobias Ellwood | 512 c937 (Link to this contribution) I do not disagree. My point is about the efficiency and security of supply, and not until very late ...
Caroline Lucas | 512 c947-8 (Link to this contribution) I am in danger of repeating myself a lot, but given that it will take at least 10 or 15 years to get...
Lord Barker of Battle | 512 c876 (Link to this contribution) Obviously my announcement is effective today. We hope to lay the regulations before Parliament befor...
Lord Barker of Battle | 512 c874 (Link to this contribution) I shall make a little progress before I take further interventions. The Government want to end shor...
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Conservation Boilers Carbon capture and storage Energy Energy supply Insulation Fuels Fossil fuels Warm front scheme Renewable energy Carbon emissions reduction target
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