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HANSARDGreat British Energy BillI am sorry, I should have responded. Clearly, the noble Baroness will know from the Clean Power 2030 Action Plan the Government’s intent with regard to planning generally. She…17 Dec 2024HANSARDEnergy Costs for BusinessesMy Lords, I think there is rather something in what my noble friend says. We inherited a parlous situation in relation to the public finances and a failure to invest in essential…17 Dec 2024HANSARDGreat British Energy BillThat question really should be addressed to the noble Lord’s own Front Bench and their stewardship. I want to be fair to EDF: a lot of the reasons for the high cost related to…17 Dec 2024HANSARDEnergy Costs for BusinessesMy Lords, right at the start of our new Government’s Administration, my right honourable friend the Prime Minister signalled that we wanted to reset relationships with the…17 Dec 2024HANSARDGreat British Energy BillI do not really know why the noble Lord is baffled by what I said. I thought I clearly said that we wish Great British Energy to have as much operational independence as possible,…17 Dec 2024HANSARDGreat British Energy BillMy Lords, this is a very interesting set of amendments, and I am grateful to all noble Lords who tabled amendments and have spoken in this debate. Clearly, as we said before, the…17 Dec 2024HANSARDGreat British Energy BillI thank my noble friend for giving way. She has asked me a question so I might as well answer it. What that means is that the Government have not committed ourselves to a…17 Dec 2024HANSARDGreat British Energy BillI know we are coming to that in later amendments, so I will certainly do that. I understand the points that noble Lords are making about parliamentary involvement in the statement…17 Dec 2024HANSARDEnergy Costs for BusinessesMy Lords, the Government believe that the only way to protect bill payers permanently, including businesses and non-domestic organisations, is to speed up the transition away from…17 Dec 2024HANSARDEnergy Costs for BusinessesMy Lords, first, of course I very much agree with the noble Earl in wishing to see a reduction in the cost of energy, particularly electricity, for our businesses. We believe that…17 Dec 2024HANSARDEnergy Costs for BusinessesMy Lords, my noble friend is right to explore the contribution that nuclear will play in the lead up to 2030, but of course beyond, which is why we have the building of Hinkley…17 Dec 2024HANSARDEnergy Costs for BusinessesMy Lords, that is not how I recognise our energy policy. The noble Lord will have seen our action plan towards clean power, published at the end of last week, which sets out how…17 Dec 2024HANSARDEnergy Costs for BusinessesMy Lords, we are putting some resources into the fusion programme. The years that I have in mind are the 2040s, which are a little less than 20 years away. This reflects our…17 Dec 2024HANSARDEnergy Costs for BusinessesMy Lords, I am very happy to give that consideration. The noble Lord will have noted that we are looking at whether we should introduce a regulatory regime for the third-party…17 Dec 2024HANSARDEnergy Costs for BusinessesMy Lords, I always enjoy the noble Lord’s interventions. I recognise that there is a potential in tidal power, and the noble Lord, Lord Alton, is—can I say—badgering me on this…17 Dec 2024HANSARDEnergy Costs for BusinessesMy Lords, we should not speculate about this until we see actual evidence that it may come to pass. The real way to ensure continuity of supply is to do what we are doing, which…17 Dec 2024HANSARDEnergy Costs for BusinessesMy Lords, as ever, I am very grateful to the noble Lord for raising these very serious matters and particularly the plight of the Uighurs in Xinjiang province, which we have…17 Dec 2024HANSARDGreat British Energy BillWe will reflect very keenly on that between Committee and Report. There is no doubt about the argument. We are facing a twin climate and nature crisis. They are inextricably…17 Dec 2024HANSARDGreat British Energy BillMy Lords, let me begin with Amendment 56 tabled by the noble Baroness, Lady Hayman, and spoken to today by the noble Lord, Lord Ravensdale, and Amendment 56A tabled by the noble…17 Dec 2024HANSARDGreat British Energy BillMy Lords, at this stage, I cannot answer that because it is still to be decided as part of the work that we are taking forward in relation to drafting the statement.17 Dec 2024