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HANSARDEnergy Bill [HL]My Lords, I begin by making it quite clear that my energy storage interests are not around long-term storage or retail storage. I absolutely support the amendments put forward by…07 Sept 2022HANSARDEnergy Bill [HL]That is moving back from what I understood. I understood there had been an agreement, or is it just that the facility has been licensed? Is that how far it has got, and so a…07 Sept 2022HANSARDEnergy Bill [HL]I thank the Minister for that information, but it sounds to me like Centrica is conducting a very hard negotiation with the Government, maybe at the security expense of the…07 Sept 2022HANSARDEnergy Bill [HL]My Lords, I think we are all trying to achieve the same thing here. As the noble Baroness, Lady Blake, said, maybe we need to take this forward as a way to do it. The cost to…07 Sept 2022HANSARDEnergy Bill [HL]The history of contracts for difference is longer than I thought; I thank the noble Baroness for mentioning that. They became a big thing in the last Energy Act during the…07 Sept 2022HANSARDEnergy Bill [HL]I hope I am not pre-empting the noble Baroness, but are the Government then going to use those powers?07 Sept 2022HANSARDEnergy Bill [HL]I thank the Minister for that. When I read the Bill, I looked at Chapter 2, entitled “Decommissioning of carbon storage installations”. My first question was: is not carbon…07 Sept 2022HANSARDEnergy Bill [HL]My Lords, it is always a great pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Worthington, and although we do not always agree on absolutely everything, I reckon that I agree with…05 Sept 2022HANSARDEnergy Bill [HL]My Lords, I wish to speak to my Amendment 10. First, let me say that I very much agree with the drift of the debate so far, in that carbon capture, usage and storage has got a lot…05 Sept 2022HANSARDEnergy Bill [HL]My Lords, I hope the Minister will forgive me for not understanding some of this, because it has raised a number of questions in my mind. If the CO 2 is put, say, under the sea—as…05 Sept 2022HANSARDEnergy Bill [HL]That would be very useful.05 Sept 2022HANSARDEnergy Bill [HL]My Lords, I welcome very much that we have moved on to the area of enforcement because, if there is one thing that is true in anything to do with the environment, we make…05 Sept 2022HANSARDEnergy Bill [HL]05 Sept 2022HANSARDEnergy Bill [HL]I asked specifically that all these amendments be grouped together because they have one aim: to make sure that there is a coherence between policy measures and the net zero…05 Sept 2022HANSARDEnergy Bill [HL]I thank the Minister for his response and reassurances. Obviously, I am fairly disappointed with the overall reply. On the principles of coherence and delivery, I will read what…05 Sept 2022HANSARDAirports and Airlines: StaffMy Lords, I am lucky enough to be having a holiday in mid-Switzerland in a couple of weeks. In under a day, I can go from Switzerland back to my home in west Cornwall by train.…19 Jul 2022HANSARDEnergy Bill [HL]My Lords, it is always a real pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Jones of Moulsecoomb, because of her rather special style in this House, which I think we genuinely…19 Jul 2022HANSARDClimate and Ecology Bill [HL]I remind the Minister that the manifesto commitment was for £9.2 billion on energy efficiency.15 Jul 2022HANSARDClimate and Ecology Bill [HL]My Lords, as a number of Members have said, we have a Conservative Party leadership election at the moment that could determine where this country goes on this subject. I have to…15 Jul 2022HANSARDEnergy: Prices and SupplyMy Lords, the Conservative manifesto of 2019 stated: “We will help lower energy bills by investing £9.2 billion in the energy efficiency of homes, schools and hospitals.” Now that…14 Jul 2022