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HANSARDEnergy White PaperI am grateful to my noble friend for his comments and particularly for his comment that the White Paper is highly ambitious. He might want to speak to the noble Lord, Lord Oates,…16 Dec 2020HANSARDEnergy White PaperThe noble Baroness makes some very good points. I cannot give her the specific reassurances she wants; I understand her ambition for this sector, but the process of legislation is…16 Dec 2020HANSARDEnergy White PaperI thank the right reverend Prelate for his support. It is an interesting suggestion; I think I am correct in saying that the grant system for the production of charging points is…16 Dec 2020HANSARDEnergy White PaperComing from the north myself, albeit from the north-east and not the north-west, I understand the challenges that the noble Lord refers to. The commitment is to enter into…16 Dec 2020HANSARDEnergy White PaperI know the noble Baroness has strong feelings on this because she has asked me this question before. She should bear in mind that hundreds of thousands of jobs are dependent on…16 Dec 2020HANSARDEnergy White PaperMy noble friend is right to point out the scale of the challenge. We are investing £240 million of capital co-investment in low-carbon hydrogen production, which was committed to…16 Dec 2020HANSARDEnergy White PaperThe noble Lord asks some very pertinent questions on the back-up detail and some of the graphs provided in the White Paper. I think it would be a more productive use of the…16 Dec 2020HANSARDEnergy White PaperMy noble friend makes a very good point. We will invest in the growth of the UK’s renewable manufacturing base to stimulate the UK’s supply chain. We will also support the…16 Dec 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Impact of No-deal Brexit on Vaccine SuppliesAs I just told the noble Baroness, Lady Ludford, we have put robust contingency arrangements in place; a huge amount of planning has gone into it and we are confident that there…16 Dec 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Impact of No-deal Brexit on Vaccine SuppliesI welcome my noble friend to these Benches. He has acknowledged expertise in this area and, of course, he is quite right: commercial options will be used first, second and third,…16 Dec 2020HANSARDEnergy White PaperI thank the noble Lords, Lord Grantchester and Lord Oates, for their comments, particularly the noble Lord, Lord Grantchester, who was fairly positive in pointing out some of what…16 Dec 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Impact of No-deal Brexit on Vaccine SuppliesI think the noble Lord forgot to ask the main Question: I shall give him the Answer to that first and then go on to his supplementary. The UK has put in place a number of measures…16 Dec 2020HANSARDEnergy White PaperOf course, AMRs have not yet been commercially deployed anywhere in the world and we are at the earliest stages of research and development, but we recognise their potential for…16 Dec 2020HANSARDEnergy White PaperOf course, huge amounts of money have been invested by both the Government and industry in the development of fuel cells, which are required for the use of hydrogen in vehicles.…16 Dec 2020HANSARDEnergy White PaperI know the noble Lord is a sceptic as regards large-scale nuclear power; we have said that we will enter negotiations with EDF on the Sizewell C project but it will be subject to…16 Dec 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Impact of No-deal Brexit on Vaccine SuppliesWe co-operate on medicines supply with countries all over the world, not just in Europe. Those countries also rely on supplies from the United Kingdom, so we are confident that we…16 Dec 2020HANSARDEnergy White PaperThe noble Lord’s comments are well made. We all find frustrating the length of time it takes to do anything in this country with the planning system and all the approvals needed,…16 Dec 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Impact of No-deal Brexit on Vaccine SuppliesThis is a matter, of course, for the Department of Health and Social Care, but we will indeed want to work with businesses, as we have done on the supply of vaccines. We pay…16 Dec 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Impact of No-deal Brexit on Vaccine SuppliesAs I said in previous answers, it is clearly a challenge to supply a vaccine that requires such careful handling, but Pfizer has years of proven experience: it has developed…16 Dec 2020HANSARDEnergy White PaperThe noble Baroness is right to point out the challenges but, of course, what we require is probably a combination of all these different strategies. Further work will be needed to…16 Dec 2020