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HANSARDStrikes (Minimum Service Levels) BillMy Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have contributed to the scrutiny of the Bill. We had an extremely thorough and, perhaps at times, slightly repetitive debate, but that is the…09 May 2023HANSARDStrikes (Minimum Service Levels) BillMy Lords, these amendments are intended to tidy the Bill, following the votes to amend the Bill on Report. They intend to remove from the Bill references to Section 234E, which…09 May 2023HANSARDStrikes (Minimum Service Levels) BillThat the Bill do now pass.09 May 2023HANSARDClimate Change: Net Zero StrategyIndeed, that will be a vital component. We need to train people for the new technologies. Many of them are already coming on stream. Of course, we work very closely with the…03 May 2023HANSARDClimate Change: Net Zero StrategyOf course, we will continue to keep these matters under review. I am not going to predict what might happen to the Bill in the House of Commons, but we will certainly reflect on…03 May 2023HANSARDClimate Change: Net Zero StrategyI understand the point my noble friend is making. Of course, we continue to engage with China and India about the folly of building new coal-fired power stations. Incidentally,…03 May 2023HANSARDClimate Change: Net Zero StrategyOf course, as always, I am immensely grateful to the noble Baroness for her constructive advice, but I am afraid that, yet again, she is wrong. We are on track to meet our…03 May 2023HANSARDClimate Change: Net Zero StrategyThe noble Lord makes an important point. As we have more and more intermittent renewables coming on to the grid, we will need to balance that out with increased storage capacity,…03 May 2023HANSARDClimate Change: Net Zero StrategyMy Lords, the path outlined in the net zero strategy is the right one and we are delivering against it; for example, by announcing an unprecedented £20 billion investment in the…03 May 2023HANSARDClimate Change: Net Zero StrategyMy noble friend makes an important point. I know he has a lot of experience in this area and he is right to point out the scale of the task. It is an immense challenge to be done…03 May 2023HANSARDClimate Change: Net Zero StrategyThe sixth carbon budget goes through to 2038. We have set out policies to meet— I think—about 97% of the targets under that and we have a number of other policies that are so far…03 May 2023HANSARDClimate Change: Net Zero StrategyOf course, I accept my noble friend’s advice about Green policies. I pointed out the example of Germany. The Green Party’s opposition to an electric railway line—HS2—is another…03 May 2023HANSARDClimate Change: Net Zero StrategyAgain, I am afraid I do not agree with the noble Baroness. There are some exciting prospects and we are supporting early-stage tidal projects. It depends whether she means…03 May 2023HANSARDClimate Change: Net Zero StrategyNo, it is not. The figures I quoted started from a baseline of 1990, so it actually includes some of the progress made under previous Labour Governments. There is no question that…03 May 2023HANSARDClimate Change Committee: DiscussionsI am sorry to disappoint the noble Baroness but the Minister is going to say that we do not subsidise fossil fuels, because that is the case. In fact, the opposite is true. We…27 Apr 2023HANSARDClimate Change Committee: DiscussionsI actually agree with him on that particular statement. Of course we need to move towards phasing out fossil fuel use; nobody disagrees with that. We have a legal commitment to do…27 Apr 2023HANSARDClimate Change Committee: DiscussionsLet me give my noble friend some other quotes from the letter from the Climate Change Committee, with which he is of course closely associated: “UK extraction has a relatively low…27 Apr 2023HANSARDClimate Change Committee: DiscussionsI refer the noble Baroness to the answer I gave to the noble Baroness, Lady Sheehan. We still have in this country a requirement for oil and gas. Some 80% of our space heating…27 Apr 2023HANSARDClimate Change Committee: DiscussionsAs the noble Baroness is aware, we have a plan to reduce our flaring. We had a Question on that a few weeks ago. We have committed, along with many other countries, to eliminate…27 Apr 2023HANSARDClimate Change Committee: DiscussionsOf course it has an impact on biodiversity, but we have very strict climate and environmental studies that need to be done before any fields are licensed. This is the subject of…27 Apr 2023