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HANSARDEnergy Bill Relief Scheme Pass-through Requirement (Heat Suppliers) (Amendment) Regulations 2022I beg to move, That the Committee has considered the Energy Bill Relief Scheme Pass-through Requirement (Heat Suppliers) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022, No. 1280). It is…09 Jan 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill Relief Scheme Pass-through Requirement (Heat Suppliers) (Amendment) Regulations 2022Whether they are absolutely set or an administrative choice in part, I do not know. If we have further information that it is useful to share with the Committee, I will certainly…09 Jan 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill Relief Scheme Pass-through Requirement (Heat Suppliers) (Amendment) Regulations 2022I am not aware of the precise timings, but as I say, I hope that the Committee will be assured that a process will be gone through. I am pleased that heat networks have been…09 Jan 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill Relief Scheme Pass-through Requirement (Heat Suppliers) (Amendment) Regulations 2022I am delighted to confirm that the guidance has been published. The hon. Gentleman will be reassured by that.09 Jan 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill Relief Scheme Pass-through Requirement (Heat Suppliers) (Amendment) Regulations 2022Really? Does the hon. Gentleman want to intervene after speaking for so long?09 Jan 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill Relief Scheme Pass-through Requirement (Heat Suppliers) (Amendment) Regulations 2022I thank the hon. Member for Southampton, Test for his typically informed but, I have to say, somewhat over-lengthy way of asking why we made a mistake. Rarely have I heard that…09 Jan 2023HANSARDHousehold Energy Bills: SupportFollowing is a statement on energy bill support schemes. Help with household energy bills— w idening the support On 29 July, details were announced of the energy bills support…19 Dec 2022HANSARDMarine Renewables: Government SupportIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hollobone, and I thank all those who have participated in the debate. Westminster Hall often shows the House in its best…07 Dec 2022HANSARDMarine Renewables: Government SupportI will not give way to the hon. Lady. We heard her generalised remarks earlier, and I think she had her opportunity. There are two BEIS overseas funding streams that EMEC may be…07 Dec 2022HANSARDMarine Renewables: Government SupportThe right hon. Lady is absolutely right. Since taking this job—about three months ago now—I have been seized with the centrality of that issue. For all the fascinating issues with…07 Dec 2022HANSARDMarine Renewables: Government SupportI am still answering the question posed by the right hon. Member for Dwyfor Meirionnydd (Liz Saville Roberts). The offshore wind acceleration taskforce has been working really…07 Dec 2022HANSARDMarine Renewables: Government SupportI have a serious problem with the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon), which is that he is a very hard man to say no to—I do resent that. I will certainly try; I think other…07 Dec 2022HANSARDMarine Renewables: Government SupportNo; I am going to bring my remarks to a close, under the Chair’s steely eye. Notwithstanding the chairman of the APPG’s efforts to get people not to make comparisons, we want to…07 Dec 2022HANSARDMarine Renewables: Government SupportI am sorry. I could not hear my hon. Friend.07 Dec 2022HANSARDMarine Renewables: Government SupportThe broad parameters of allocation round 5 will come out this month, and the more detailed criteria will come out on the eve of its launch in March. I can say no more than that,…07 Dec 2022HANSARDSustainable Energy Generation: Burning TreesThe hon. Gentleman, as so often, has put his finger on the central point. We cannot do this by looking at an individual tree. We look at the whole forest and different parts of…06 Dec 2022HANSARDSustainable Energy Generation: Burning TreesI will write to the hon. Gentleman on that specific issue, as it is right that I give him a proper answer. On investigation, we do not find that the allegations that “Panorama”…06 Dec 2022HANSARDSustainable Energy Generation: Burning TreesI entirely agree with my hon. Friend. We must not get stuck in the past, and we need to have a thorough and proper examination of the issues. That is why, as one small…06 Dec 2022HANSARDSustainable Energy Generation: Burning TreesWe have had those quotes, which might or might not have been accurate. My right hon. Friend the Member for Spelthorne (Kwasi Kwarteng) did then say that he fully supported Drax…06 Dec 2022HANSARDSustainable Energy Generation: Burning TreesIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Gray. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for North Devon (Selaine Saxby) on securing the debate and thank all right…06 Dec 2022