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HANSARDLithium Ion Batteries: Fire Safety StandardsIf I heard the noble Baroness wrong, I apologise of course. We support responsible regulation. If that is what she supports us in doing, it is welcome news.03 Mar 2022HANSARDLithium Ion Batteries: Fire Safety StandardsI am delighted to hear that the noble Lord came in today on his e-bike. I am unable to resist the opportunity to say that perhaps he could have a word with his friends in the…03 Mar 2022HANSARDLithium Ion Batteries: Fire Safety StandardsThe noble Lord makes an important point. The access to minerals and rare earth required to make batteries is a source of considerable interest to the Government. We are looking…03 Mar 2022HANSARDLithium Ion Batteries: Fire Safety StandardsI do not share the noble Baroness’s enthusiasm for banning e-scooters. The Department for Transport is considering options for how best to regulate them and to crack down on their…03 Mar 2022HANSARDPost Office: HorizonThe noble Baroness makes an important point. Certainly the Post Office has said it will not be conducting any further prosecutions. This is a wider question than this particular…24 Feb 2022HANSARDPost Office: HorizonIt is a complicated picture. There are a number of different compensation streams. There are the original GLO participants who took the case to the High Court. The problem there…24 Feb 2022HANSARDPost Office: HorizonMy noble friend makes a very good point. Again, let us wait for the outcome of the inquiry to see exactly where the blame lies and what suitable redress can be provided.24 Feb 2022HANSARDPost Office: HorizonMy Lords, with the leave of the House, I will repeat an Answer to an Urgent Question given in the other place earlier this morning: “I will update on Horizon matters since I last…24 Feb 2022HANSARDPost Office: HorizonMy understanding is that, yes, Sir Wyn has all the powers available to him. We would be happy to look at any further powers that he needs if he does not have them, but my…24 Feb 2022HANSARDPost Office: HorizonI thank the noble Lord for his excellent questions. On this, I agree with many of the points he made. Regarding the 555, who he rightly highlighted, as I said, they have been…24 Feb 2022HANSARDPost Office: HorizonI thank the noble Lord for his praise for me, but it is slightly unjust; it is the Minister for Small Business who is responsible for the Post Office and is putting in the hard…24 Feb 2022HANSARDPost Office: HorizonAgain, I find myself agreeing in large part with my noble friend. I am happy to join him in paying tribute to my noble friend Lord Arbuthnot, and to the many other noble Lords on…24 Feb 2022HANSARDRevised Energy National Policy StatementsDuring the planning process itself, community mitigations will be taken into account, providing the national framework to enable local planning decisions to be taken. Community…22 Feb 2022HANSARDRevised Energy National Policy StatementsMy Lords, I thank everyone who contributed to this debate. As always, it has been interesting and informative, if not all directly related to the subject under discussion—I am…22 Feb 2022HANSARDRevised Energy National Policy StatementsMy Lords, our purpose here today is to consider updated energy national policy statements, which we propose to designate later this year, subject of course to the outcome of a…22 Feb 2022HANSARDRevised Energy National Policy StatementsWe are always open to finding new ways of speeding these things up, but you also have to take into account the concerns of local communities which have to put up with this…22 Feb 2022HANSARDRevised Energy National Policy StatementsThe whole purpose of these national policy statements is to try to speed up the planning process in the first place by setting a national framework within which the local…22 Feb 2022HANSARDRevised Energy National Policy StatementsThat the Grand Committee takes note of the draft Revised Energy National Policy Statements laid before the House on 11 October 2021.22 Feb 2022HANSARDRevised Energy National Policy StatementsMy noble friend makes a good point. Supplies of gas from the North Sea are slowly declining. We will still have a need for fossil fuels, gas in particular, but of course the…22 Feb 2022HANSARDNuclear Energy (Financing) BillThese matters are subject to future negotiations. I will come back to the noble Lord on that. I have addressed most of the points made in the debate. I am encouraged by the…21 Feb 2022