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HANSARDClimate Change: Nature-based Solutions (STC Report)My Lords, it is my pleasure to take part in the debate this afternoon, and I add my congratulations to the committee on such an excellent and thorough report conducted in very…09 Feb 2023HANSARDEnergy Profits LevyMy Lords, in retrospect, would it not have been more sensible to have negotiated with the providers of those resources from the North Sea to our domestic consumers and capped the…07 Feb 2023HANSARDNet ZeroMy Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Hayman, for securing this debate. I echo her comments about the sheer number of opportunities ahead of us in the near term to address…26 Jan 2023HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill25 Jan 2023HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets BillI shall seek to remember where I was in my speech. I was talking about international co-ordination and how the FCA currently is part of a global network of regulators, and…25 Jan 2023HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets BillMy Lords, I am very pleased to speak to this group of amendments this afternoon, having sadly been unable to make Second Reading. I declare my interest as a co-chair of Peers for…25 Jan 2023HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets BillMy Lords, I am genuinely grateful to the Minister for her response, which was very helpful and contained information about which I was not aware—I thank her for that. I will read…25 Jan 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [HL]My Lords, I must start with an apology. My train was delayed for 45 minutes and many others were cancelled, so I am just about here on time. I thank my noble friend Lord…16 Jan 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [HL]I thank the noble Baroness for her response. I will indeed study her reply in detail; I am grateful for the information provided. In the recently published net-zero review by…16 Jan 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [HL]My Lords, I congratulate the Government on bringing forward these amendments to help us to reduce the delays that are often commonplace when it comes to investment in our offshore…16 Jan 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [HL]Has the Minister considered whether, if the development is actually increasing biodiversity because of the no-take effect, it should get credits, and maybe money back?16 Jan 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [HL]Since we are having this conversation, it is not a question of putting off these measures but of proportionality and ranking those impacts according to the scale on which they are…16 Jan 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [HL]I will continue if I may, and perhaps the noble Lord will come back to me on all the reasons. Another reason is that there is a moral dimension to climate change. We should never…16 Jan 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [HL]My Lords, I hesitate to speak on this fascinating group of amendments, because we have had a rather long debate already. However, as it is such an important aspect of energy…16 Jan 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [HL]I dispute that point completely. It is not about virtue-signalling; it is about moral leadership. There is a difference. When the UK stood up and passed legislation on climate…16 Jan 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [HL]I wanted to say something in my speech, but it went on too long. There is this question of carbon neutrality of fossil fuel extraction, and two things are really important here.…16 Jan 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [HL]I am sorry; I was saying to myself that I would not do this, but I point out that when it comes to energy efficiency, electrification, which is a tried-and-tested way of providing…16 Jan 2023HANSARDClean Energy: InvestmentTo ask His Majesty’s Government how they are working across departmental boundaries to ensure that the effectiveness of investments in clean energy is being maximised.14 Dec 2022HANSARDClean Energy: InvestmentI thank the Minister for his response. There are a number of supplementary questions I could ask around the lack of joined-up government on clean energy investments, but the one…14 Dec 2022HANSARDEnergy Bill [HL]My Lords, I will speak briefly to this group of amendments, as it is the first opportunity we have had to discuss the ISOP and its important function going forward. I congratulate…14 Dec 2022