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HANSARDCommittee on Climate Change: Progress ReportWe are not ignoring the recommendations of the committee. As I said, we will respond in due course, but the noble Lord makes an important point about the importance of getting…01 Jul 2020HANSARDCommittee on Climate Change: Progress ReportThe Chancellor will be setting out our financial policies in this area when he makes his Statement but, as I said in an earlier answer, we will be publishing a heat and building…01 Jul 2020HANSARDCommittee on Climate Change: Progress ReportAs I said in an earlier answer, we will set out our plans for a heat and building strategy in due course, but I would be happy to respond in writing to the noble Lord’s detailed…01 Jul 2020HANSARDCommittee on Climate Change: Progress ReportMy Lords, the Government welcome the committee’s comprehensive and wide-ranging report and agree with it that tackling climate change should be at the heart of our economic…01 Jul 2020HANSARDCommittee on Climate Change: Progress ReportI very much agree with the noble Baroness that heat pump technology requires support. In line with our commitment to achieving net-zero carbon emissions, we consider the role of…01 Jul 2020HANSARDCommittee on Climate Change: Progress ReportAs we recover from Covid-19, we certainly want to deliver a UK economy which is cleaner, stronger, more sustainable and more resilient. Covid-19 has been a powerful reminder of…01 Jul 2020HANSARDCommittee on Climate Change: Progress ReportThe noble Baroness makes an important point and, as I said to the noble Lord, Lord Oates, we will be setting out our plans, publishing a heat and building strategy in due course.…01 Jul 2020HANSARDCommittee on Climate Change: Progress ReportThe noble Baroness makes an important point. She is of course right to point out that reducing our emissions in this country is fine but, if we just import emissions from other…01 Jul 2020HANSARDCommittee on Climate Change: Progress ReportYes, of course we will respond to the committee’s recommendations. The noble Baroness is quite right to point out the importance of getting the metrics right and making sure that…01 Jul 2020HANSARDCommittee on Climate Change: Progress ReportMy noble friend has considerable expertise in this field and I thank her for all her contributions on the Pension Schemes Bill. She rightly pointed out that the Department for…01 Jul 2020HANSARDCompetition and Markets AuthorityWe accepted the recommendations of the Furman report in the Budget earlier this year. We are considering what further steps need to be taken.25 Jun 2020HANSARDCompetition and Markets AuthorityI will correct the noble Baroness: we will not leave EU markets at the end of the transition period. We seek in the negotiations to ensure continued access to those markets and…25 Jun 2020HANSARDCompetition and Markets AuthorityWe are taking action on these matters. We asked the CMA to lead two critical pieces of work: to report on the state of competition, and to set up the digital markets taskforce.…25 Jun 2020HANSARDCompetition and Markets AuthorityAt the risk of repeating myself, of course we keep these matters under constant review. We will see the outcome of the digital markets task force that the CMA is currently…25 Jun 2020HANSARDCompetition and Markets AuthorityWell, characteristically the noble Lord has a great grasp of hyperbole, but I do not think that he is fairly characterising the situation here. It is a complicated area of…25 Jun 2020HANSARDCompetition and Markets AuthorityConsumers are best served by free and open competition, appropriately regulated, between businesses. The welfare of consumers is always at the forefront of our thoughts on this.25 Jun 2020HANSARDCompetition and Markets AuthorityMy Lords, the Government are committed to ensuring that markets work well for consumers and businesses and have already ensured that the Competition and Markets Authority has…25 Jun 2020HANSARDCompetition and Markets AuthorityOn that final point, we will of course run a full and open competition process. We will appoint the best person for the job. We committed in our manifesto to tackle consumer…25 Jun 2020HANSARDCompetition and Markets AuthorityThe regulation of digital e-commerce is extremely important. As I have said, the CMA has set up the digital markets taskforce to study these matters, but they are complicated.…25 Jun 2020HANSARDCompetition and Markets AuthorityWe committed in our manifesto to tackle consumer rip-offs and bad business practices. The issues that the noble Lord, Lord Tyrie, set out in the CMA’s letter have helped shape…25 Jun 2020