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HANSARDEnergy Bill [HL]My Lords, I will not detain the Grand Committee hugely on these amendments, which in many ways are probing. They propose that the ISOP really needs to keep an eye on future…14 Dec 2022HANSARDEnergy Bill [HL]I thank the Minister for that. It was most useful. He has mentioned the energy trilemma twice during this session, and I am interested in whether he still believes that there is…14 Dec 2022HANSARDEnergy Bill [HL]This is a useful debate. Is the Minister saying that the ISOP’s budget will be agreed by Ofgem? That will be the negotiation. Is that right? Is that how it will work? Will it be…14 Dec 2022HANSARDEnergy Bill [HL]I thank the Minister for his comprehensive reply to my probing amendments and would very much welcome his writing to clarify some of these areas. I had not really thought through…14 Dec 2022HANSARDEnergy Bill [HL]My Lords, I will speak first to my Amendment 157. Since I put it down when the Bill first started, a lot of water has gone under the bridge—or perhaps electrons down the copper…14 Dec 2022HANSARDEnergy Bill [HL]I apologise, but I must come back to the Minister: where we are on the delivery of that scheme? As I understand it, it will go through local authorities. Is the cheque in the post?14 Dec 2022HANSARDEnergy Bill [HL]To clarify, I said that I did not expect the Minister to accept my amendment, but I did ask a serious question: when will the RAB model be applied? When will it start to go on…14 Dec 2022HANSARDEnergy Bill [HL]My Lords, I declare an interest in that every month I have to disappear under the stairs in my house with a camera with a flash on it to take a photograph of my ancient meter and…14 Dec 2022HANSARDEnergy Bill [HL]If I may, I will just point out to the Minister that I may be one of the few, but I am actually one of 4 million.14 Dec 2022HANSARDEnergy Bill [HL]I just want to make the point that we are coming up to three years after the programme was supposed to have finished. Where are we now? On the smart meters that work, in June—I do…14 Dec 2022HANSARDEnergy Bill [HL]When I read through this Bill for the first time, this was the area that had the greatest shock value for me. I was involved in the UK Infra- structure Bank Bill where, when it…14 Dec 2022HANSARDEnergy Bill [HL]My Lords, I welcome fusion being mentioned in the Bill and I am sure the Labour amendment is reasonable. We had the big celebration at the Livermore lab in California, but I…14 Dec 2022HANSARDClean Energy: InvestmentMy Lords, one of the main failures of departmental co-operation is the paucity of recharging points for EVs in rural areas. There are absolute wastelands. Is the Minister’s…14 Dec 2022HANSARDBiomass StrategyMy Lords, one of the objectives of the Government under the Environment Act was to rationalise local government collection of waste, part of which is food waste. We have a real…14 Dec 2022HANSARDEnergy Bill [HL]My Lords, I really have just one question for the Minister, and it is on decommissioning funds. It is not clear to me—that may be because I have not gone through the absolute…12 Dec 2022HANSARDEnergy Bill [HL]My Lords, I welcome the Bill’s return to Committee; I am very pleased that that is the case. I have no comments to make on the amendments, but I note that during that interregnum,…12 Dec 2022HANSARDEnergy Bill [HL]My Lords, I was getting ahead of myself on the last group, and I apologise to the Grand Committee for that. I would have thought that the Government would like to accept this…12 Dec 2022HANSARDEnergy Bill [HL]I have a concern about this area and I think it is important that this is clarified.12 Dec 2022HANSARDEnergy Bill [HL]My Lords, I particularly support the proposal to take out Clauses 108 and 109. I did not put my name to that, but it seems the obvious solution. As the noble Baroness, Lady…12 Dec 2022HANSARDEnergy Bill [HL]My Lords, I wanted to give the Minister the opportunity to introduce his amendments, but I will say a couple of things about this because low-carbon heating is a key issue. As he…12 Dec 2022