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HANSARD Energy Bill [Lords]I am determined to work very hard to ensure that this Government will not be gone in 12 months. However, we are taking the powers now to ensure support for the use of these fuels…05 Sept 2023HANSARD Energy Bill [Lords]Once again, I thank the hon. Gentleman for his question. I was just about to answer his original question: I can confirm that officials from the Department for Energy Security and…05 Sept 2023HANSARD Energy Bill [Lords]I can give my right hon. Friend that assurance and go further. That commitment, alongside our £165 million advanced fuels fund and the world-leading SAF mandate, will help to…05 Sept 2023HANSARD Energy Bill [Lords]I can indeed. I am delighted to tell my hon. Friend that alongside our proposed fund, we are committing to publishing an annual report to Parliament and to consulting on the…05 Sept 2023HANSARD Energy Bill [Lords]I thank the hon. Lady very much for her intervention and her question. I am engaging with Ofgem on that very issue and am looking to convene a meeting in Edinburgh with all the…05 Sept 2023HANSARD Energy Bill [Lords]Yes, I can confirm that I will raise that issue with Ofgem at my next meeting, and at the next available opportunity I have to meet the Chairman of the Energy Security and Net…05 Sept 2023HANSARD Energy Bill [Lords]I am delighted to rise. I must apologise in advance of my closing remarks: given the time available, I will not be able to address every single point, question, statement and…05 Sept 2023HANSARD Energy Bill [Lords]I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.05 Sept 2023HANSARD Energy Bill [Lords]I am delighted to rise today to bring before the House our landmark Energy Bill for its consideration. This world-leading, historic Bill—a Conservative Bill—will deliver for this…05 Sept 2023HANSARD Energy Bill [Lords]If the hon. Gentleman will have patience, I will come to the renewable liquid heating fuel amendments later in my speech, where I am happy to direct any questions to which he is…05 Sept 2023HANSARD Energy Bill [Lords]My right hon. Friend knows that I am a great champion of supporting our oil and gas industry, which continues to supply a large amount of our energy baseload and will do for a…05 Sept 2023HANSARD Energy Bill [Lords]I would be delighted.05 Sept 2023HANSARD Energy Bill [Lords]I am delighted to confirm that that will play an important part. Indeed, we have ringfenced £10 million to support marine energy in the country. We believe it has a huge role to…05 Sept 2023HANSARD Energy Bill [Lords]It is always a delight to give way to the hon. Gentleman.05 Sept 2023HANSARD Energy Bill [Lords]I thank the hon. Gentleman for his constructive intervention. The Government recently launched a consultation on community benefits, because we do understand that those…05 Sept 2023HANSARD Energy Bill [Lords]Absolutely. It is incumbent on all involved, from the transmission operators to the developers, National Grid, the electricity system operator and indeed the Department and those…05 Sept 2023HANSARD Energy Bill [Lords]Yes. I would be delighted to give way.05 Sept 2023HANSARD Energy Bill [Lords]On the hon. Member’s first point, absolutely, we remain committed to delivering, developing and rolling out heat pumps across the country, and we remain committed to the targets…05 Sept 2023HANSARD Energy Bill [Lords]I would be delighted.05 Sept 2023HANSARD Energy Bill [Lords]I was very pleased to take that intervention. I thank my right hon. Friend for it. If he is patient, I will explain to the rest of the House—I think Committee members are…05 Sept 2023