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HANSARDEcodesign for Energy-Related Products and Energy Information (Lighting Products) Regulations 2021May I just delay the Committee for one short moment and thank the Minister for clarifying those figures on the savings from the lighting regulations? However, could he perhaps…14 Sept 2021HANSARDEcodesign for Energy-Related Products and Energy Information (Lighting Products) Regulations 2021I thank the Minister for his introduction to the two instruments before the Committee today. I am very happy to approve them; I agree that both are uncontroversial as well as…14 Sept 2021HANSARDEnvironment BillIf noble Lords have noticed my silence at earlier stages of the Environment Bill, it is because my noble friend Lady Jones has been very ably joined on the Front Bench by my noble…08 Sept 2021HANSARDClimate ChangeThe IPCC report underlines the statistical proof of man’s footprint across the globe and that climate breakdown is already well under way and accelerating, with ocean…07 Sept 2021HANSARDNet Zero TestThis is the decisive decade for action and achievements, yet behind the Government’s scatter-gun rhetoric there is only dither and delay to key strategic coherency: the net-zero…22 Jul 2021HANSARDElectricity Capacity (Amendment) Regulations 2021I am grateful to the Minister for his introduction to the regulations before the Committee today. He looks a little isolated in the Committee Room today, but I hope our words will…21 Jul 2021HANSARDHydrogen EconomyCan the Minister confirm whether the promised hydrogen strategy will include support for the steel sector to enable a long-term shared vision to develop between industry and…19 Jul 2021HANSARDSteel SectorThe Government’s recent U-turn to bring forward emergency legislation to extend steel safeguard tariffs is good news, but this goes back to 2017, when the House first debated the…12 Jul 2021HANSARDUK–Commonwealth Trading RelationshipMy Lords, the Commonwealth is an important institution. While it might reflect on its upbringing from the past, it nevertheless has a continuing relevance and impact. It is a…08 Jul 2021HANSARDPrivate Sector: Environment and COP 26In June, the Government announced that Microsoft would join SSE, Scottish Power, NatWest Group, National Grid, Sky, Sainsbury’s, Hitachi, Reckitt and GSK as principal partners for…07 Jul 2021HANSARDClimate ChangeThe Climate Change Committee has called out the Government for the scale of the yawning gap that exists between government rhetoric and the Government’s lack of decarbonisation…29 Jun 2021HANSARDRepublic of Cameroon: Economic Partnership AgreementThat this House regrets the Economic Partnership Agreement between the United Kingdom and the Republic of Cameroon given (1) the human rights abuses committed by President Biya’s…29 Jun 2021HANSARDRepublic of Cameroon: Economic Partnership AgreementI thank the noble Lord, Lord Purvis, for tabling his Motion on Ghana, and I welcome the debate taking place on both of these today. I will necessarily be focusing my remarks on…29 Jun 2021HANSARDRepublic of Cameroon: Economic Partnership AgreementVery good, my Lords. I beg to move.29 Jun 2021HANSARDRepublic of Cameroon: Economic Partnership AgreementI have listened carefully to all the contributions expressed in this debate on scrutiny and trading arrangements. I thank the noble Lords, Lord Kerr and Lord Lansley, for speaking…29 Jun 2021HANSARDFree Trade Agreement Negotiations: AustraliaMy Lords, I thank the Minister for his letter and the Government for their update on the progress of the UK’s trading relationship with Australia. I had been waiting for the…24 Jun 2021HANSARDElectric Vehicles: Impact on Household Energy BillsWith the Government already reducing the grant for new electric vehicles, and around half of the £300 million of Ofgem’s additional support coming from savings from other…23 Jun 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Vaccine ProductionThe G7 leaders’ communiqué notes “the positive impact that voluntary licensing and technology transfer on mutually agreed terms have already made to increasing global supply.” But…17 Jun 2021HANSARDClimate Change Act 2008 (Credit Limit) Order 2021I am nearly finished. The reasons given in the Explanatory Memorandum for continuing with budgetary insurance are no longer convincing. Sufficient flexibility must be managed…15 Jun 2021HANSARDClimate Change Act 2008 (Credit Limit) Order 2021Once again, the Committee meets to consider important matters concerning climate change. I thank the Minister for his explanation of the order before us. It follows the well-worn…15 Jun 2021