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HANSARDGreat British Energy BillI am grateful for the noble Lord’s intervention. May I take him up on his point about the Ministry of Defence, which I used to work for at one stage? He said that the people there…15 Jan 2025HANSARDGreat British Energy BillMay I press the Minister a bit harder on green hydrogen? If my noble friend Lord Roborough is right and, whatever happens, it will be much too expensive to produce, then we surely…15 Jan 2025HANSARDGreat British Energy BillI cringe, with apologies to my noble friend Lord Ashcombe; I did not realise that it was he who said it. Anyway, whoever said it, I very much supported the view that it might well…15 Jan 2025HANSARDGreat British Energy BillMy Lords, I, too, speak in support of these amendments. It is definitely important that accountability is brought to bear here. Of course, one has the constant worry that the…15 Jan 2025HANSARDGreat British Energy BillMy Lords, I support these amendments. I have certain reservations about my noble friend Lady Bloomfield’s Amendment 78, because it assumes these investments will make money. I…13 Jan 2025HANSARDGreat British Energy BillMy Lords, it seems quite extraordinary that no reference is made in this Bill to nuclear because, let us face it, if you want to have clean energy generation, nuclear is the only…13 Jan 2025HANSARDGreat British Energy BillMy Lords, I am very keen that my noble friend Lord Ashcombe should reintroduce the whole prospect of hydrogen, because I thought that it was rather rubbished by my noble friend…13 Jan 2025HANSARDGreat British Energy BillMy Lords, it is always a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Alton. We have to admire his doggedness in bringing up the question of slave labour in China. As we are…13 Jan 2025HANSARDGreat British Energy BillDoes the Minister accept, however, that converting oilseed rape into aviation fuel does not produce clean energy?13 Jan 2025HANSARDGreat British Energy BillMy Lords, I was speaking to the noble Lord, Lord Mandelson, the other day. This was when he was chasing around after the chancellorship of Oxford University. I said to him that I…13 Jan 2025HANSARDGreat British Energy BillMy Lords, first, I assure the noble Baroness, Lady Young, that I will not speak for 12 and a half minutes. As I have established, I know a little about agriculture but not an…13 Jan 2025HANSARDConduct CommitteeMy Lords, as I indicated earlier, I am more than happy to withdraw my amendment.08 Jan 2025HANSARDConduct CommitteeAs an amendment to the above motion, to leave out from “that” to end and to insert “this House declines to agree the Report from the Conduct Committee The conduct of Baroness…08 Jan 2025HANSARDConduct CommitteeI apologise to the House, because the only way that I can possibly speak in defence of my noble friend Lady Meyer is by putting down an amendment. I can reassure the noble…08 Jan 2025HANSARDConduct CommitteeAll right, I am happy to withdraw my remarks about the kangaroo court, but it seems to me that this is a committee that meets in secret. We are unable to debate the issues…08 Jan 2025HANSARDGreat British Energy BillMy Lords, if I am brutally honest, I do not really like this Bill at all. It is a vehicle for a nationalised industry that should not even be set up by a Labour Government who…17 Dec 2024HANSARDGreat British Energy BillMy Lords, I too support the amendment of the noble Lord, Lord Vaux. It strikes me that the real problem with the Bill is that if nothing happens with GB Energy, the Secretary of…17 Dec 2024HANSARDGreat British Energy BillAt one stage, I was involved in geothermal energy in Cornwall. We had a problem in that, when we pumped cold water down into very hot rocks, there were small earthquakes, which…17 Dec 2024HANSARDGreat British Energy BillDoes the noble Lord share my concern that the nuclear power station being built in Somerset is costing four times as much as an identical one in South Korea? Does he have any…17 Dec 2024HANSARDGreat British Energy BillMy Lords, I first apologise to the House. On the first day in Committee, I extolled the virtues of small modular reactors and said that Rolls-Royce were in a very good position to…17 Dec 2024