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Debate on bill on Tuesday, 10 May 2011, in the House of Commons, led by Chris Huhne. The answering member was Meg Hillier.

Energy Bill [Lords]

Energy Bill (HL). Second reading debate. Agreed to on question. Programme motion on proceedings in Public Bill Committee, on Report, Third reading and any other proceedings. Agreed to on question. Queen's recommendation signified. Money resolution agreed to on question. Ways and means resolution agreed to on question.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
527 c1053-134 
Session
2010-12
Department
Department of Energy and Climate Change
Legislative stage
Second reading
Procedure
Programme motions
Money resolutions
Ways and means resolutions
Queen's recommendation
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Speaker | 527 c1092 (Link to this contribution) Order. A very large number of Members still wish to speak in this debate, and we will not get everyb...
Barry Gardiner | 527 c1056 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman talked about householders moving and the contract then being taken on. Howe...
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Chris Huhne | 527 c1056 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman knows, when we are looking at savings or cash flow, money today is worth more ...
Andrew George | 527 c1056 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend refers to the companies that will undertake the assessments and potentially the...
Chris Huhne | 527 c1056 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point. We are absolutely determined to ensure that this scheme is open t...
Chris Huhne | 527 c1057 (Link to this contribution) We have taken extensive advice on the provisions of the Consumer Credit Act 1974, and the Bill is ab...
Chris Huhne | 527 c1057 (Link to this contribution) I give way to the hon. Lady who has not yet intervened.
Chris Huhne | 527 c1053 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. Over the past year, energy policy has been ...
Chris Huhne | 527 c1054 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps the right hon. Lady has more information on that than I do. I read the comments very careful...
Chris Huhne | 527 c1054 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for his question on that issue. Obviously, there is an abs...
Joan Ruddock | 527 c1054 (Link to this contribution) In the light of what the Secretary of State has just said, what does he make of Centrica's threat no...
Chris Huhne | 527 c1053 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend, and I know that he has been very active in promoting that cause. I ...
Lord Redwood | 527 c1054 (Link to this contribution) Given the looming shortage of capacity, how much new capacity is in-build as a result of decisions t...
Chris Huhne | 527 c1053 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman can take it from me, as a former journalist on The Guardian, that he should not a...
John Baron | 527 c1053 (Link to this contribution) The Government are rightly concerned about fuel poverty and whether customers are paying too much fo...
Chris Huhne | 527 c1054 (Link to this contribution) I will give way once more—to the right hon. Gentleman—before making a little more progress.
Andrew Smith | 527 c1054 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State said a few moments ago that we need to act now to combat climate change. Will...
Chris Huhne | 527 c1055 (Link to this contribution) The exact specifications of the measures that can be included in the green deal are properly left to...
John Leech | 527 c1055 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend accept that the biggest problem is in the private rented sector, and that ...
Chris Huhne | 527 c1055-6 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree with my hon. Friend, and I will respond to his point later if he will allow me to m...
Chris Huhne | 527 c1054 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman knows that it is not a question of months or years; the proper place for th...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 527 c1054 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Lord Watts | 527 c1055 (Link to this contribution) As up to 24% of heat can go out of the window, will double glazing be included in the green deal?
Chris Huhne | 527 c1057 (Link to this contribution) I do not agree with the hon. Lady's assessment. It is important to deal with people in fuel poverty....
Caroline Lucas | 527 c1057 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to speak. Is it not the case that the golden rule will not help pe...
Chris Huhne | 527 c1058 (Link to this contribution) I will make a little progress, if I may. Millions of homes, and millions of businesses, could benef...
Lord Barwell | 527 c1058 (Link to this contribution) What estimate have the Government made of the contribution that the energy efficiency measures in th...
Lord Whitehead | 527 c1057 (Link to this contribution) On the ECO, does the right hon. Gentleman regret agreeing with the Treasury cap on Department of Ene...
Chris Huhne | 527 c1058 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman should first realise that the ECO is not covered by that as yet, although it may ...
Chris Huhne | 527 c1058 (Link to this contribution) I happily give way to the right hon. Lady for a second time.
Joan Ruddock | 527 c1058 (Link to this contribution) I am exceedingly grateful. I have to say that much of what the Secretary of State is telling the Ho...
Chris Huhne | 527 c1058 (Link to this contribution) One problem that we have in making that assessment is that, as I have said, this is the first scheme...
Joan Ruddock | 527 c1058 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Chris Huhne | 527 c1058-9 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Lady, and I pay personal tribute to her for her work on the matter. ...
Andrea Leadsom | 527 c1059 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Bill—it is a superb idea, and I applaud the Government for bringing it forward so quic...
Chris Huhne | 527 c1059 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely sympathise with the hon. Lady's question—I spent a number of years on the board of the ...
Jim Shannon | 527 c1060 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Chris Huhne | 527 c1060 (Link to this contribution) As I have already said, the Government are committed to trying to make the benefits of the green dea...
Chris Huhne | 527 c1060-1 (Link to this contribution) Let me make a bit more progress, but I will give way again later. There will be no more picking off...
Michael Meacher | 527 c1059-60 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State has concentrated on the benefits of the Bill, which of course depend on wheth...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 527 c1060 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State mentioned qualified installers, which in theory are all very well. However, o...
Chris Huhne | 527 c1060 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is right to say that the interest rate is important. However, it is up to c...
Jim Shannon | 527 c1061 (Link to this contribution) For a minute I thought that as a Democratic Unionist Member I was not going to be allowed to speak i...
Chris Huhne | 527 c1061 (Link to this contribution) The short answer is that there is a limit to what we can guarantee—the hon. Gentleman used the word ...
James Morris | 527 c1061 (Link to this contribution) On that point about the added benefit of the scheme to regional economies, can the Secretary of Stat...
Chris Huhne | 527 c1061 (Link to this contribution) That will depend on the take-up in different areas, but we estimate that nationally—there is no reas...
Chris Huhne | 527 c1062-3 (Link to this contribution) If I may, I am going to make some progress. We will focus our resources on where they can do the mo...
Chris Huhne | 527 c1062 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point. There are many difficulties in the energy market of the kind that...
Tessa Munt | 527 c1062 (Link to this contribution) I wonder whether this Energy Bill might be the right place for the Government to instruct the regula...
Chris Huhne | 527 c1062 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is right. Many of us have been visited in surgery by constituents saying that they wer...
Heather Wheeler | 527 c1061-2 (Link to this contribution) This is a key test that will give legs to the Bill. Some of my constituents have contacted me about ...
Caroline Lucas | 527 c1063 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for giving way again. Are not tenants unlikely to challenge their lan...
Chris Huhne | 527 c1063 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady anticipates a point that I will turn to very soon. Landlords do not want to invest be...
Malcolm Wicks | 527 c1063-4 (Link to this contribution) I have a question about the private rented sector, and I ask it in a spirit of non-partisanship beca...
Chris Huhne | 527 c1064 (Link to this contribution) We have discussed this with the DWP, and that would certainly be one route down which we could go. T...
Chris Huhne | 527 c1064 (Link to this contribution) The clear idea here is to give a point at which we know people are going to be able to aim. It is no...
Stephen Gilbert | 527 c1064 (Link to this contribution) The Government are clearly announcing significant changes to improve energy efficiency in the privat...
Chris Huhne | 527 c1064 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend needs to recognise that a substantial number of councils are very enthusiastic about ...
Andrew George | 527 c1064 (Link to this contribution) Before he took those last two interventions, my right hon. Friend had just reached the point about t...
Mike Weir | 527 c1065 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is rapidly going through energy security measures, but clause 100 provides ...
Chris Huhne | 527 c1065 (Link to this contribution) We have indeed had consultations with the devolved Administrations on all aspects of the Bill. One o...
Chris Huhne | 527 c1065 (Link to this contribution) I have come to my peroration and I have given way many times. I would like to continue. Together wi...
Chris Huhne | 527 c1065 (Link to this contribution) I must make progress. The regime will ensure that if a large supplier becomes insolvent, customers ...
David Mowat | 527 c1067 (Link to this contribution) When the last Government left office, one half of 1% of the UK's total energy production was deliver...
Meg Hillier | 527 c1066-7 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady may be jumping to conclusions. It is this Government who are removing the Warm Front s...
Andrea Leadsom | 527 c1066 (Link to this contribution) I am very disappointed by what the hon. Lady is saying, on behalf of many of my constituents. A coup...
Meg Hillier | 527 c1065-6 (Link to this contribution) I was starting to think that my moment might not come this afternoon. I am delighted that the Secret...
Meg Hillier | 527 c1068-70 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend's point. This Government cannot lecture us, given the impact of their po...
Meg Hillier | 527 c1068 (Link to this contribution) I am sure the Secretary of State would be delighted if he had the power to control fuel prices, but ...
Lord McCabe | 527 c1068 (Link to this contribution) What impact does my hon. Friend think a VAT rise has on fuel prices, and what impact does that have ...
Christopher Pincher | 527 c1068 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady seems to turn disappointment into an art form. Is she not aware that many people are v...
Meg Hillier | 527 c1067-8 (Link to this contribution) The point is that this Government are removing Warm Front, and there will be nothing for the fuel po...
Neil Carmichael | 527 c1067 (Link to this contribution) For the record, can the shadow Secretary of State tell us whether the level of fuel poverty went up ...
Meg Hillier | 527 c1067 (Link to this contribution) First does not always mean best. We want the Bill to succeed in its aims, but if the hon. Lady looks...
Speaker | 527 c1067 (Link to this contribution) Order. I think that the hon. Lady has made her point.
Laura Sandys | 527 c1067 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Lady wishes to improve energy security and insulation in homes and to reduce carbon, I d...
Meg Hillier | 527 c1067 (Link to this contribution) The Opposition seem to misunderstand—[Hon. Members: ““You are the Opposition!””] They are the Opposi...
Andrew George | 527 c1071 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Lady does not mind, I will sidestep the disappointingly partisan nature in which she has...
Meg Hillier | 527 c1072 (Link to this contribution) I think the hon. Gentleman wants to know whether he can get home early for tea tonight. Let me reit...
Meg Hillier | 527 c1070-1 (Link to this contribution) I'm not your love, matey, and I suspect someone else might find that surprising, too. It is importa...
Meg Hillier | 527 c1071 (Link to this contribution) That is another example of the Government's dither and delay in making decisions that can have perve...
Debbie Abrahams | 527 c1071 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend that there is still much to do before the Government can claim to be the...
Meg Hillier | 527 c1070 (Link to this contribution) That tells us all we need to know about the relationships in the coalition. If the hon. Gentleman, a...
Stephen Gilbert | 527 c1070 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady seems to be ““doing a Hillier””, snatching embarrassment from the jaws of defeat. We h...
Meg Hillier | 527 c1070 (Link to this contribution) The Minister of State says from a sedentary position that that is unusual in Committee—
John McDonnell | 527 c1072 (Link to this contribution) I think the tenor of the argument in the House is that the whole House wants to see the Bill succeed...
Tim Yeo | 527 c1072-3 (Link to this contribution) I begin by drawing attention to my entry in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. I would v...
Meg Hillier | 527 c1072 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an excellent suggestion, which I have also made to the Secretary of State. I am...
John McDonnell | 527 c1072 (Link to this contribution) Even if the delegated legislation comes after the Bill is passed, may I suggest that there is a disc...
Tim Yeo | 527 c1074-5 (Link to this contribution) The test of smart meters will be how user-friendly they are at giving people information that is rel...
Baroness Morgan of Cotes | 527 c1074 (Link to this contribution) Would my hon. Friend agree with a very simple suggestion that was put to me by a constituent about s...
Tim Yeo | 527 c1073 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Secretary of State for that point. I hope that means he will encourage the use ...
Chris Huhne | 527 c1073 (Link to this contribution) Powers for councils to do that are already on the statute book. A number of councils have introduced...
Joan Walley | 527 c1076-8 (Link to this contribution) I shall start exactly where the hon. Member for South Suffolk (Mr Yeo), who so ably chairs the Energ...
Tim Yeo | 527 c1075-6 (Link to this contribution) I am running out of time, I am afraid, and I think I get only two goes at giving way. I am sorry. I...
Gregory Campbell | 527 c1079 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman and the Secretary of State have talked about step changing and game changing. Doe...
Martin Horwood | 527 c1078-9 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the opening remarks made by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State, particularly the ...
Barry Gardiner | 527 c1079 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman accept that the Department of Energy and Climate Change has predicted that t...
Martin Horwood | 527 c1079 (Link to this contribution) I am sympathetic to the hon. Gentleman's point, which is important, but the genius of the green deal...
Martin Horwood | 527 c1080 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member makes an important point, but we cannot always predict those interest rates, because...
Barry Gardiner | 527 c1081 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Martin Horwood | 527 c1081 (Link to this contribution) I did not say that the measure would drive a coach and horses through our commitment to no subsidy. ...
Martin Horwood | 527 c1087 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Barry Gardiner | 527 c1085 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman believe that his party should reaffirm the statement by the Committee on Cli...
Iain Wright | 527 c1085 (Link to this contribution) I remember with great affection going to Southampton to see my hon. Friend's constituency and talkin...
Phillip Lee | 527 c1085 (Link to this contribution) Let me begin by congratulating Members on their contributions, particularly my hon. Friend the Membe...
Iain Wright | 527 c1082-4 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Cheltenham (Martin Horwood). I have fond memories of ...
Lord Whitehead | 527 c1084 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend reflect on how landlords are going to be found under the arrangements that have ...
Barry Gardiner | 527 c1081 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. Does he accept that the DECC's proposals for a ““contract for d...
Martin Horwood | 527 c1081-2 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure about feed-in tariffs, but if the hon. Gentleman is talking about the floor price for ...
Martin Horwood | 527 c1081 (Link to this contribution) I will not—or perhaps I will; I have a few minutes to spare.
Lord Barker of Battle | 527 c1090 (Link to this contribution) I am listening carefully to the hon. Gentleman, and I am aware of and responsive to his concerns, bu...
Mike Weir | 527 c1089-90 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend, but again, I would refer to what the Secretary of State said. My hon. Friend...
Mike Weir | 527 c1090 (Link to this contribution) The Minister says that, but firms involved in a range of technologies have approached me. Scottish R...
Lord Barker of Battle | 527 c1090-1 (Link to this contribution) The MCS is quite outside the scope of this Second Reading debate, but I take the hon. Gentleman's po...
Mike Weir | 527 c1091-2 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister very much for that offer, which takes two pages out of my speech. I will certai...
Steve Brine | 527 c1092-4 (Link to this contribution) Thank you very much, Madam Deputy. I shall be speedy. It is a great pleasure to contribute to this ...
Ian Lavery | 527 c1094 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the introduction of the green deal in its current form will hit t...
Steve Brine | 527 c1094-6 (Link to this contribution) I do not agree, and I will come on to why not. On the economic case for the green deal, I am clear ...
Michael Meacher | 527 c1096-7 (Link to this contribution) We have listened to a distinctly Panglossian rosy glow of a statement from the Secretary of State. I...
Steve Brine | 527 c1096 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely agree with that point. I can see the logic in setting local carbon budgets, because man...
Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford | 527 c1096 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend not think that a good place to start would be for the Government to set out exac...
Lord Barker of Battle | 527 c1098 (Link to this contribution) I will address some of the right hon. Gentleman's thoughtful comments in my wind-up, but let me put ...
Michael Meacher | 527 c1098 (Link to this contribution) I am very pleased to hear that, and I will take that point away and look at it again. Obviously if t...
Mark Tami | 527 c1097 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that our experience of how the big companies have treated the fuel p...
Michael Meacher | 527 c1097-8 (Link to this contribution) The point about pre-payment meters is important, because, again, it is the poorest households—the mo...
Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park | 527 c1099-100 (Link to this contribution) A number of speakers have already said this, but it is worth repeating that energy efficiency has fo...
Lord Barker of Battle | 527 c1098 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman makes exactly the right point, and although the Secretary of State did not ...
Michael Meacher | 527 c1098-9 (Link to this contribution) I am very pleased to hear that. Clearly there is thinking going on in Government about how the Bill ...
Phillip Lee | 527 c1087 (Link to this contribution) Of course. I am interested to hear the hon. Gentleman's response.
Brian Binley | 527 c1089 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way—he is my hon. Friend, and I am pleased to call him su...
Mike Weir | 527 c1089 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman. If that is the case, I understand that there is a rather strange boundar...
Mike Weir | 527 c1088-9 (Link to this contribution) I must confess that when the Secretary of State was at the Dispatch Box and talked about a golden ru...
Barry Gardiner | 527 c1089 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman will allow me, I will try to help him. When the six counties of Northern Irela...
Andrew George | 527 c1088 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is making a number of interesting points about the renewables sector. He is right...
Phillip Lee | 527 c1088 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention, but I do not know the answer to that question. Thi...
Martin Horwood | 527 c1087 (Link to this contribution) I have on occasion made speeches about the dangers of nuclear power, but today's was not one of them...
Phillip Lee | 527 c1087-8 (Link to this contribution) Forgive me. I thought that the hon. Gentleman said something about compensation to agriculture and p...
Tessa Munt | 527 c1110 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for that answer. I wish to return to the issue of fuel poverty. I cannot say h...
Andrew George | 527 c1111 (Link to this contribution) Before my hon. Friend moves on, will she take one brief intervention?
Andrew George | 527 c1111 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has mentioned the manner in which the utility companies charge for their power. One f...
Tessa Munt | 527 c1111 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention, and I ask the Minister to add that suggestion to my lis...
Barry Gardiner | 527 c1112 (Link to this contribution) The Bill is debated under the shadow of the report published this Monday by the independent Committe...
Barry Gardiner | 527 c1113 (Link to this contribution) The virtue that the hon. Lady's party usually claims for itself is that it adopts a hard-nosed busin...
Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford | 527 c1113 (Link to this contribution) I share the commitment to creating the best incentives possible within the Bill but I think the hon....
Barry Gardiner | 527 c1113-4 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend. I want to assure the Minister and all hon. Members present that I h...
Baroness Berger | 527 c1113 (Link to this contribution) Has my hon. Friend seen the YouGov poll that was released today in which only 7% of the people polle...
Tom Greatrex | 527 c1116-8 (Link to this contribution) I, like many other Members on both sides of the House, welcome large elements of the Bill and suppor...
Chris White | 527 c1118-9 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to speak in this debate because I believe that this issue is extremely important for ou...
Oliver Colvile | 527 c1114-6 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for calling me to speak on Second Reading of the Energy Bill. I declar...
Speaker | 527 c1121 (Link to this contribution) Order. Two hon. Members are yet to speak. Perhaps they could divide the time left between themselves...
Julian Sturdy | 527 c1119-21 (Link to this contribution) It is a real pleasure to contribute to today's Second Reading debate. I have a long-held interest in...
David Mowat | 527 c1124-6 (Link to this contribution) It was not clear to me this evening whether I would make the remarks that I want to make, because it...
Peter Aldous | 527 c1121-4 (Link to this contribution) The Government are to be commended for introducing ambitious legislation, for thinking outside the b...
Claire O'Neill | 527 c1100 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that one of the new and interesting things about the green deal is that it...
Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park | 527 c1100 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend 100%. One of the great aspects of the green deal is that it overcomes th...
Ian Lavery | 527 c1100 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman mentioned how imperative the emissions reduction targets are, and I entirely agre...
Mark Tami | 527 c1102 (Link to this contribution) Other Members have mentioned the problem of poorer homes, and private landlords are a particular pro...
Lord Whitehead | 527 c1101-2 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to follow the hon. Member for Richmond Park (Zac Goldsmith), who has made a thoughtful ...
Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park | 527 c1100-1 (Link to this contribution) I am on record as being sceptical about the possibilities of nuclear power, partly because it will t...
Lord Whitehead | 527 c1102 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for that clarification. When we are talking about energy efficiency in homes, ...
Lord Barker of Battle | 527 c1102 (Link to this contribution) I cannot comment on the detail, but I can assure the hon. Gentleman, as I assured the right hon. Mem...
Lord Barker of Battle | 527 c1104 (Link to this contribution) My hon. and very wise Friend is absolutely right. We want to try to capture some of the positive cro...
Brian Binley | 527 c1104-6 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the whole House will welcome the Minister's generous remarks, and I hope that we can ...
Brian Binley | 527 c1104 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Southampton, Test (Dr Whitehead) on his typically thoughtful spee...
Lord Barker of Battle | 527 c1110 (Link to this contribution) I can do that now. I am very happy to say that we want to make the green deal as permissive as possi...
Heather Wheeler | 527 c1110 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady raises an interesting point. I recall that when I was serving on Wandsworth council 20...
Tessa Munt | 527 c1109-10 (Link to this contribution) It is an honour to follow the hon. Member for Brighton, Pavilion (Caroline Lucas). She made many of ...
Brian Binley | 527 c1106 (Link to this contribution) That is an important point, and I note from one or two nods from Opposition Members that there is ag...
Lord Barker of Battle | 527 c1132-3 (Link to this contribution) I will not, I am afraid, because there is very little time. On energy security and moving beyond oi...
Lord Barker of Battle | 527 c1129-32 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to hear from the hon. Member for Liverpool, Wavertree (Luciana Berger) that the Oppos...
Caroline Lucas | 527 c1106-9 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to have the opportunity to speak in this important debate. Let me say straight away th...
Lord Tyrie | 527 c1056 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State said that he is creating a new market. Considerable consumer protection and c...
Barry Gardiner | 527 c1053 (Link to this contribution) While the Secretary of State is talking about the targets, will he expand on the dispute that appear...
Chris Huhne | 527 c1054-5 (Link to this contribution) I am going to make a bit more progress, if I may, and if the hon. Gentleman will excuse me, because ...
Meg Hillier | 527 c1072 (Link to this contribution) I am in discussions with those on the Government Front Bench. When I asked to see draft secondary le...
Phillip Lee | 527 c1085-7 (Link to this contribution) My view is that these targets are extremely difficult to meet, partly because the energy policy of t...
Baroness Berger | 527 c1126-9 (Link to this contribution) One thing has been proved in the course of this excellent debate—that the Government's green ambitio...
Chris Huhne | 527 c1081 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend should recognise that the clause intends not only to provide more certainty for inves...
Lord Whitehead | 527 c1102-4 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. I welcome what I understand to be a change of heart by the Government about the extent to wh...
Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford | 527 c1106 (Link to this contribution) When deciding on a marketing strategy, should we not think about how to attract those who are most v...
Subjects
Consumers Decommissioning Conservation Business Climate change Billing Housing Environment protection Energy Electricity generation Energy supply Electricity Fuel poverty Heating Interest rates Warm front scheme Local government Protection Nuclear power stations Loans Meters Prices Private rented housing Standards Reform Renewable energy Carbon emissions
Legislation
Energy Bill (HL) 2010-12
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