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HANSARDNon-Domestic Alternative Fuel Payment Pass-through Requirement and Amendment Regulations 2023That the Grand Committee do consider the Non-Domestic Alternative Fuel Payment Pass-through Requirement and Amendment Regulations 2023. Relevant documents: 32nd Report from the…14 Mar 2023HANSARDAlternative Fuel Payment Pass-through Requirement (England and Wales and Scotland) Regulations 2023My Lords, in moving the Alternative Fuel Payment Pass-through Requirement (England and Wales and Scotland) Regulations 2023, I will speak also to the Non-Domestic Alternative Fuel…14 Mar 2023HANSARDCleaner Energy TechnologiesI am not quite sure where the noble Lord is going on that question. Perhaps we should have a more detailed discussion outside the Chamber.14 Mar 2023HANSARDCleaner Energy TechnologiesI would indeed be disappointed if the noble Baroness did not raise the subject of onshore wind. She partly answered her own question in that she knows that we are consulting on…14 Mar 2023HANSARDCleaner Energy TechnologiesIt depends on which projects the noble Lord is referring to. He might hear some good news in the near future with regard to the track 1 cluster announcements.14 Mar 2023HANSARDCleaner Energy TechnologiesI certainly agree with my noble friend that we need to expand both the potential and the deployment of nuclear reactors, and we are doing just that. We recently passed the Nuclear…14 Mar 2023HANSARDCleaner Energy TechnologiesThe noble Baroness makes a very good point. Security of supply is vital, and it is one reason why we want to continue to roll out the deployment of renewables in the UK—because,…14 Mar 2023HANSARDCleaner Energy TechnologiesWe give a value to carbon and use that to inform our policies, not least through the ETS. We have supported a number of early-stage technologies. Offshore wind was extremely…14 Mar 2023HANSARDAlternative Fuel Payment Pass-through Requirement (England and Wales and Scotland) Regulations 2023That the Grand Committee do consider the Alternative Fuel Payment Pass-through Requirement (England and Wales and Scotland) Regulations 2023. Relevant documents: 32nd Report from…14 Mar 2023HANSARDCleaner Energy TechnologiesWell, if the noble Baroness is referring to the legally binding carbon budgets, of course by their very nature they are legal targets and we have to meet them. We have met all our…14 Mar 2023HANSARDCleaner Energy TechnologiesNo, I think the noble Lord is being too pessimistic, as he often is. We have ambitious projects supporting steel. The noble Lord is right that hydrogen is probably one of the…14 Mar 2023HANSARDCleaner Energy TechnologiesI understand the point my noble friend is making, but the potential of hydrogen to support the global transition to net zero is widely recognised, with international partners,…14 Mar 2023HANSARDCleaner Energy TechnologiesMy Lords, published carbon values are used across government for valuing the impacts on emissions resulting from policy interventions, including options for different clean energy…14 Mar 2023HANSARDAlternative Fuel Payment Pass-through Requirement (England and Wales and Scotland) Regulations 2023My Lords, I was just moving on to the issue of enforcement. The approach in these instruments is consistent with other energy schemes. If an intermediary does not pass on the…14 Mar 2023HANSARDCleaner Energy TechnologiesYes, well, however many times the noble Lord asks me that question, he gets the same answer. We are supporting tidal stream technology under the latest CfD round—and of course we…14 Mar 2023HANSARDCarbon Budgets: Methane FlaringMy noble friend makes a good point, and I touched on it in an earlier answer. We want to try to trap as much of this gas as possible because it is a valuable resource. As I…09 Mar 2023HANSARDCarbon Budgets: Methane FlaringThe noble Lord makes a very good point. The finest minds in the Civil Service have been devoted to deciding the acronym for the new department. “Deznez” seems to be the favourite,…09 Mar 2023HANSARDCarbon Budgets: Methane FlaringThe noble Baroness asked a number of questions there. We can argue about the figures but we can all agree that it is something that we want to eliminate as quickly as possible. We…09 Mar 2023HANSARDStrikes (Minimum Service Levels) BillI readily concede to the noble Baroness that many public services are under pressure, despite the record sums that we are spending on them. Of course, there are pressures on many…09 Mar 2023HANSARDStrikes (Minimum Service Levels) BillMy Lords, it is my pleasure to reply on this group containing Amendments 13 and 18, grouped together as they both relate to levels of service on non-strike days. The Government do…09 Mar 2023