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HANSARDEnergy Bill [HL]My Lords, I will speak to my Amendment 33, which is around the decommissioning costs of carbon capture and storage installations. First, I will read what is in Clause 85(1) about…28 Mar 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [HL]My Lords, when the IPCC report on the global warming challenge came out last week, and it gave a pretty dire view, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres,…28 Mar 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [HL]28 Mar 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [HL]I am very happy with the Minister’s reply, and I will not move Amendment 33.28 Mar 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [HL]28 Mar 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [HL]My Lords, I also have great concern about this amendment. It seems to me that, on renewable transport fuels, we have a government amendment, in a group of some 20 amendments or…28 Mar 2023HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration BillMy Lords, yesterday I had the privilege of walking along a body of water called Frenchman’s Creek, which—some noble Lords may know—was made famous by the novel of Daphne du…27 Mar 2023HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration BillMy Lords, local nature recovery strategies are one of the triumphs of the Government’s Environment Act, which I welcomed at the time, as did the whole House. We wanted to ensure…27 Mar 2023HANSARDUK Infrastructure Bank Bill [HL]My Lords, I have to admit, although I should not, that when I saw the Bill appear on Forthcoming Business I thought that it had received Royal Assent about a year ago, that it had…14 Mar 2023HANSARDCleaner Energy TechnologiesMy Lords, the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit released a report last week that stated that, when it comes to green steel, the EU has some 38 projects, while the United…14 Mar 2023HANSARDPension Schemes: GuidanceMy Lords, actually, I think we were second after New Zealand; we were the first in the G20. The Financial Conduct Authority recently surveyed TCFD returns and found weaknesses in…13 Mar 2023HANSARDGreen InvestmentMy Lords, I ask to give leave to ask my Question standing on the Order Paper to the Minister.07 Mar 2023HANSARDGreen InvestmentTo ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of (1) the environmental provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act 2022 in the United States of America, and (2) the…07 Mar 2023HANSARDGreen InvestmentMy Lords, I will try to be a little more fluent in my follow-up question. This is very serious. Industry and many people see the Inflation Reduction Act and the EU response as a…07 Mar 2023HANSARDHeat and Buildings Strategy: Gas BoilersMy Lords, the overwhelming evidence is that hydrogen will never work in domestic heating. Will the Government stop their trials of hydrogen villages and concentrate their efforts…28 Feb 2023HANSARDMethane EmissionsMy Lords, the Minister mentioned the word “urgency”, yet if we look at the North Sea, we are emitting three times the amount of methane compared with the equivalent extraction by…22 Feb 2023HANSARDCost of Not Zero in 2022 (Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit Report)My Lords, I congratulate the Minister on his appointment to the new Department for Energy Security and Net Zero. I personally was very pleased to hear of the establishment of that…08 Feb 2023HANSARDPrepayment Energy MetersMy Lords, those consumers who are not on direct debit get their £67 a month back through vouchers. We know that some 18% of those are not claimed, so who keeps the money? Is it…08 Feb 2023HANSARDAgricultural Transition PlanMy Lords, I will be very brief. Exactly as the noble Baroness, Lady Hayman, said, the images of this incident are quite something. Given its importance, I would be very interested…01 Feb 2023HANSARDVulnerable Households: Energy CostsMy Lords, one reason we have very high energy prices, obviously apart from Putin himself, is that we are still very reliant on gas for heating and the generation of electricity.…31 Jan 2023