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HANSARDSentencing BillMy Lords, there are amendments in this group in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Blunkett. He has asked me to say that he is mortified that he cannot be here today and that he…06 Jan 2026HANSARDSentencing BillMy Lords, I am sorry that the noble Baroness, Lady Chakrabarti, was so quick to assume that I was going to say something with which she would disagree. I hope, in fact, to…06 Jan 2026HANSARDSentencing BillMy Lords—06 Jan 2026HANSARDSpace Industry (Indemnities) BillMy Lords, this is the second Bill this week that, in effect, transfers risk or cost away from private investors to the taxpayer or the fare payer, to help put Britain on the path…12 Dec 2025HANSARDSustainable Aviation Fuel BillMy Lords, I have listened with great interest to this short debate. It is almost certainly my fault, and I will probably need to be mildly humiliated as I am corrected on the…10 Dec 2025HANSARDSustainable Aviation Fuel BillWe are all agreed that we should be talking about contract length, but my amendment is the only one that refers to it. That is the point that I am trying to make. The noble Lord,…10 Dec 2025HANSARDSustainable Aviation Fuel BillI am grateful to the noble Lord for explaining that. I am glad we are broadly ad idem, but he helps me to my third point. The assumption by the noble Lord, Lord Ravensdale,…10 Dec 2025HANSARDSustainable Aviation Fuel Bill10 Dec 2025HANSARDSustainable Aviation Fuel BillMy Lords, it may be for the convenience of the Committee if I move Amendment 4 in the name of my noble friend Lord Grayling, who has taken the deepest and most knowledgeable…10 Dec 2025HANSARDSustainable Aviation Fuel BillMy Lords, I beg leave to withdraw Amendment 4 in the name of my noble friend Lord Grayling.10 Dec 2025HANSARDSustainable Aviation Fuel Bill10 Dec 2025HANSARDSustainable Aviation Fuel BillMy Lords, for the convenience of the Committee, I rise to move Amendment 7 in the name of my noble friend Lord Grayling. While I am on my feet, I congratulate the noble Earl, Lord…10 Dec 2025HANSARDSustainable Aviation Fuel BillMy Lords, I beg leave to withdraw Amendment 7 in the name of my noble friend Lord Grayling.10 Dec 2025HANSARDSustainable Aviation Fuel BillMy Lords, since we were congratulating the noble Earl, Lord Russell, earlier, may I take this opportunity—it may surprise him a little—also to congratulate the noble Lord, Lord…10 Dec 2025HANSARDSustainable Aviation Fuel BillMy Lords, generally speaking, monitoring is good, and reporting is better. If the noble Earl, Lord Russell, and the noble Baroness, Lady Pidgeon, want to engage over the next few…10 Dec 2025HANSARDSustainable Aviation Fuel Bill10 Dec 2025HANSARDSustainable Aviation Fuel BillMy Lords, I will speak to Amendment 19 and the other amendments in my name in this group. These amendments cover two topics, and I will try to deal with them fairly briefly, but…10 Dec 2025HANSARDSustainable Aviation Fuel BillMy Lords, before I go any further, I just return to paragraph 4.23 of the cost-benefit analysis, where I read out something earlier thinking that I understood it, but now I do not…10 Dec 2025HANSARDSustainable Aviation Fuel BillIf noble Lords do not object, I will speak now rather than later in this group because, having read his amendment, I agreed with the noble Lord, Lord Ravensdale, before Committee…10 Dec 2025HANSARDSustainable Aviation Fuel BillI was hoping that the Minister would simply and explicitly state that the Government do not intend to see the mechanism used to support all the fuels that appear in the Energy Act…10 Dec 2025