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HANSARDPrepayment Meters: PricingOf course I can give the noble Baroness that assurance; we will do all we can to protect the most vulnerable. We all recognise the difficult circumstances that such people would…11 Oct 2022HANSARDPrepayment Meters: PricingMy Lords, prepayment customers will benefit from both the energy price guarantee and the Energy Bills Support Scheme. Under the energy price guarantee, a typical household in…11 Oct 2022HANSARDPrepayment Meters: PricingThe noble Baroness makes a very important point. Obviously, we are doing everything we can to make sure that there are no blackouts, but if that very unlikely eventuality comes to…11 Oct 2022HANSARDPrepayment Meters: PricingI refer the noble Baroness to the Answer I gave earlier: using a prepayment meter is not the most expensive way, and many customers choose to do it for their convenience. The…11 Oct 2022HANSARDPrepayment Meters: PricingOf course, a number of people across the country live off the gas grid and use oil, LPG, et cetera. The noble Baroness is right that in most cases they benefit from the…11 Oct 2022HANSARDEconomy: The Growth Plan 2022I know that there has never been a tax that the noble Lord does not want to increase even further, but it is already a very high level of tax. I think I saw a figure of £170…10 Oct 2022HANSARDEconomy: The Growth Plan 2022If the noble Lord will have patience, I will finish my paragraph and then he can intervene. It applies to profits earned by companies from the production of oil and gas in the UK…10 Oct 2022HANSARDEconomy: The Growth Plan 2022My noble friend is tempting me down a difficult road with the Barnett formula. I am sure that he will allow his point to stand, but I will not get into an argument about it at…10 Oct 2022HANSARDEconomy: The Growth Plan 2022I will certainly look at doing that but, as I said, we are preparing for the legislation. There is furious drafting going on at the moment. It will be in the House shortly. I…10 Oct 2022HANSARDEconomy: The Growth Plan 2022This goes back to the point I made to the noble Lord, Lord Vaux, earlier: we will indeed be debating these matters further when the legislation arrives. It is a complicated…10 Oct 2022HANSARDEconomy: The Growth Plan 2022My Lords, I begin by joining my noble friend Lady Neville-Rolfe in welcoming the noble Baroness, Lady Gohir, and congratulating her on her maiden speech, which I listened to with…10 Oct 2022HANSARDHorizon EuropeI am sure that the Prime Minister will be having many conversations with EU leaders and the European Commission. I am not sure that another letter would make a tremendous…08 Sept 2022HANSARDHorizon EuropeThe noble Viscount is attacking the wrong target. We remain ready to associate to Horizon Europe at the earliest possible opportunity, in line with our agreement with the EU on…08 Sept 2022HANSARDHorizon EuropeMy Lords, the Government remain ready to associate to Horizon Europe. We have entered into formal consultations with the EU, aiming to finalise the UK’s association. If the UK is…08 Sept 2022HANSARDHorizon EuropeThere are some negative impacts: the current uncertainty is damaging for scientific co-operation. There are many researchers who want to get on with the job, and we have put in…08 Sept 2022HANSARDHorizon EuropeThe main attraction of the UK in terms of collaboration with other parts of the world is our world-leading scientific community—which is why it happens now. We have a number of…08 Sept 2022HANSARDHorizon EuropeI thank the noble Lord for his kind words about the CEO of ARIA and completely associate myself with them. He makes an important point: we have many collaborations with other…08 Sept 2022HANSARDHorizon EuropeI am not sure that it is second best; it is an alternative. We have many scientific co-operation programmes with many other parts of the world; the EU is not the be-all and…08 Sept 2022HANSARDHorizon EuropeMy noble friend makes a good point, as he often does. I am not sure that the Eurovision Song Contest is a sufficient precursor to Horizon Europe, but, to be serious, his point is…08 Sept 2022HANSARDHorizon EuropeI stand completely by those words: it would be a win-win, and we want to do it. It would be to the benefit of the EU and the UK scientific community, and it is regrettable that…08 Sept 2022