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HANSARDGreen SkillsMy Lords, can I make a plea to the Government? So often when we talk about green jobs—as has been mentioned already, in fact—it is nearly always around green energy, renewable…09 Mar 2022HANSARDNuclear Energy (Financing) BillI can see the Government Benches starting to go for a refreshment break; never mind. I am trying to make a serious point. I have been to Hinkley C; I understand it all, believe…08 Mar 2022HANSARDNuclear Energy (Financing) BillWhat I was trying to ask is whether BEIS is getting itself into gear—and I realise that the Government will probably look wider than renewables—and getting its act together now to…08 Mar 2022HANSARDNuclear Energy (Financing) BillMy Lords, I will make just a brief intervention. I do not disagree at all with the noble Lord’s amendment, except that clearly we should not use this form of funding for research…08 Mar 2022HANSARDNuclear Energy (Financing) BillI hesitate to interrupt, but I was relating only to fusion, rather than fission, in my comments.08 Mar 2022HANSARDNuclear Energy (Financing) BillPerhaps the noble Viscount will explain how the Labour Party in government has made some of the biggest U-turns on nuclear power ever seen in this country.08 Mar 2022HANSARDNuclear Energy (Financing) BillWe all agree with the principle that the polluter pays. I believe that we also have a principle in life that we should not pollute if we have no way of solving that pollution…08 Mar 2022HANSARDNuclear Energy (Financing) BillMy Lords, of course, the problem is actually flooding, as was shown at Fukushima—and bad maintenance, even in an organised society like Japan. The Tokyo Electric Power Company is…08 Mar 2022HANSARDNuclear Energy (Financing) BillThat is not what the amendment says.08 Mar 2022HANSARDNuclear Energy (Financing) BillThere is a concept in economics—which I am sure the noble Viscount is aware of—of opportunity cost.08 Mar 2022HANSARDNuclear Energy (Financing) BillExactly. My point about it is that, first, it is the Government’s Bill says there will be this assessment. We are trying to find out is what it actually is, in the interests of…08 Mar 2022HANSARDNuclear Energy (Financing) BillThe answer to intermittency comes back to opportunity cost. As I said at Second Reading, the most effective way of reducing it is energy efficiency. That should be the prime…08 Mar 2022HANSARDNuclear Energy (Financing) BillGeothermal.08 Mar 2022HANSARDNuclear Energy (Financing) BillI will not respond to that hugely, except to say that the really important amendment, which I think we will all treat seriously, is the one on the cost of energy and the fact that…08 Mar 2022HANSARDNuclear Energy (Financing) BillThere are all sorts of ways of dealing with intermittency. Interconnectors have been quite effective, and I congratulate the Government on their policy of increasing those. Energy…08 Mar 2022HANSARDNuclear Energy (Financing) BillMy Lords, I rise very briefly. In the last group, I mentioned some of the countermeasures to the variability of renewables, including interconnectors, energy efficiency,…08 Mar 2022HANSARDSanctionsMy Lords, is the Minister having sufficient conversations with our overseas territories and Crown dependencies to make sure that none of our financial sanctions is bypassed in any…01 Mar 2022HANSARDBus Services: Covid-19 Emergency FundingWill the Minister give us an estimate of when the majority of buses, particularly in city centres, will be decarbonised, running on hydrogen or electricity, so we can get away…01 Mar 2022HANSARDRevised Energy National Policy StatementsMy Lords, I welcome this document. I remember some 10 years ago sitting here and going through all six of the previous documents. It does not seem so long ago, which is a sad…22 Feb 2022HANSARDNuclear Energy (Financing) BillMy Lords, first, I declare my interest as a director of Aldustria Ltd, which is an energy storage company. I thought the noble Lord, Lord Rooker—who I have huge regard for—was…21 Feb 2022