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HANSARDSteel SectorWe are working hard to make sure that UK producers of steel have the best possible chances of competing for and winning contracts across all government procurement efforts. The…12 Jul 2021HANSARDMarket Surveillance (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2021I thank both noble Lords for their valuable contributions to this short debate. For reasons that I will summarise, it is vital for the product safety regime that this SI comes…08 Jul 2021HANSARDMarket Surveillance (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2021My Lords, I beg to move that these regulations, which were laid before the House on 10 June 2021, be approved. The Regulation on Accreditation and Market Surveillance, 765/2008,…08 Jul 2021HANSARDMarket Surveillance (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2021That the Grand Committee do consider the Market Surveillance (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2021. Relevant document: 6th Report from the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee08 Jul 2021HANSARDPrivate Sector: Environment and COP 26The industrial strategy challenge fund has 10 challenges, and one of these, as the noble Lord will be aware, is the transforming construction fund, with £170 million of public…07 Jul 2021HANSARDPrivate Sector: Environment and COP 26All companies that take part in COP 26 will have joined our race to net-zero initiative. As I mentioned in response to the noble Lord, Lord McConnell, 40 of the FTSE 100 companies…07 Jul 2021HANSARDPrivate Sector: Environment and COP 26The Government are making substantial progress in this area. The noble Baroness will be aware that we will be publishing our heat building strategy shortly, which will help to set…07 Jul 2021HANSARDPrivate Sector: Environment and COP 26The noble Lord makes a very good point, and indeed we will. Already, 40 of the UK’s leading companies have joined the net-zero challenge and, as he will be aware, as part of the…07 Jul 2021HANSARDPrivate Sector: Environment and COP 26I agree with the points made by my noble friend. The Government’s ambition is for the UK to be the best place in the world for green and sustainable investment. ESG funds are a…07 Jul 2021HANSARDPrivate Sector: Environment and COP 26My noble friend is very keen on innovation. I am delighted to tell him that, as part of BEIS’s £505 million energy innovation portfolio and our £10 million Industrial Energy…07 Jul 2021HANSARDPrivate Sector: Environment and COP 26I am very happy to join my noble friend in recommitting to that. Sir Roger was an inspiring champion for using finance as a force for good in tackling climate change and improving…07 Jul 2021HANSARDPrivate Sector: Environment and COP 26My Lords, we are calling on companies to commit to cut emissions via the UN’s Race To Zero campaign, to join in submitting near-term plans plus, by 2050, a net-zero goal for…07 Jul 2021HANSARDPrivate Sector: Environment and COP 26I think that the House has some sympathy with the points made by the noble Baroness. She will be delighted to hear that the Competition and Markets Authority is carrying out a…07 Jul 2021HANSARDPrivate Sector: Environment and COP 26The noble Baroness makes a good point. We keep all these matters under constant review. We are constantly looking at the corporate governance code and we are reforming audit and…07 Jul 2021HANSARDPrivate Sector: Environment and COP 26My noble friend makes a very good point. She will have seen the announcement that we made only this morning on additional investment in wind turbine infrastructure in the Humber…07 Jul 2021HANSARDPrivate Sector: Environment and COP 26The noble Lord will I am sure be delighted to hear that we are launching a new contracts for difference round in December.07 Jul 2021HANSARDClimate ChangeThe noble Baroness should read the Climate Change Committee report, which itself recognises the ongoing demand for oil and natural gas, including in all scenarios for how the UK…29 Jun 2021HANSARDClimate ChangeThe noble Lord of course makes an important point about worldwide emissions and our overall carbon footprint. We have been at the forefront of measuring the emissions associated…29 Jun 2021HANSARDClimate ChangeI cannot promise the noble Baroness that we will support her amendments; I will need to look at them first. But we are doing a lot on skills. For example, the green homes grant…29 Jun 2021HANSARDClimate ChangeThe noble Baroness makes a good point. Achieving our net-zero target will be a shared endeavour, requiring action from everyone across society. We will set out our approach to…29 Jun 2021