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HANSARDGreenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) Order 2026I commend this instrument to the Committee.28 Jan 2026HANSARDWarm Homes PlanI thank the noble Lord and the noble Earl for their contributions on this Statement. I think I can say that both of them were pretty supportive, which is nice for something as…27 Jan 2026HANSARDWarm Homes PlanI thank the noble Baroness for that contribution. The question of heat pumps and insulation is very clear: heat pumps do not work as well as they should if a property is poorly…27 Jan 2026HANSARDWarm Homes PlanMy noble friend is quite right. We are going to need a great deal of upskilling of individuals who are participating in this programme to make sure that they provide the best…27 Jan 2026HANSARDWarm Homes PlanThere is a large number of applications of anonymised and aggregated data from smart meters, assuming that you have enough smart meters installed in any one place to make the data…27 Jan 2026HANSARDWarm Homes PlanMy noble friend is right to focus attention on the extent to which consumers and the general public will have confidence in the changes that are afoot and will be able to make…27 Jan 2026HANSARDWarm Homes PlanI thank the noble Lord for his question. It might be helpful if I go into a brief disquisition on perovskite and its qualities, to inform the House about the noble Lord’s…27 Jan 2026HANSARDOffshore WindI do not recognise the scenario that the noble Lord paints. Not only is this AR7 settlement good for energy prices—indeed renewables and low-carbon energy have reduced overall…19 Jan 2026HANSARDOffshore WindI am afraid the noble Lord will have to wait for about a week before the warm homes plan comes out. That will contain, so I am reliably informed, a great deal of detail about…19 Jan 2026HANSARDOffshore WindI am sure the noble Baroness will be aware that one of the first things that the new Labour Government did when we took office was, literally at the stroke of a pen, to remove the…19 Jan 2026HANSARDOffshore WindMy noble friend makes an important point about the amount of work we still have to do and the extent to which we have to integrate what we are doing into a whole low-carbon system…19 Jan 2026HANSARDOffshore WindI thank the noble Baroness for that intervention. It gives me an opportunity to confirm the two floating offshore wind projects that have been agreed under this auction round. I…19 Jan 2026HANSARDOffshore WindI thank the noble Lords for their contributions this evening. They were deeply contrasting in both tone and content: one I substantially agree with; the other I do not at all. We…19 Jan 2026HANSARDCOP Climate Negotiations: CitiesI think that is one-all now. The noble Lord will be well aware that we have founded, among other things, Great British Energy, which has a substantial brief within it to promote…14 Jan 2026HANSARDCOP Climate Negotiations: CitiesI warmly welcome the noble Lord to his place as the opposition spokesperson as far as DESNZ is concerned. He has had a distinguished career in energy, being a former Energy…14 Jan 2026HANSARDCOP Climate Negotiations: CitiesThe noble Baroness puts forward an accurate picture of how the C40 group was originally founded. I was not going to mention in this Chamber that it was founded by Ken Livingstone…14 Jan 2026HANSARDCOP Climate Negotiations: CitiesI do not think the UK can really be determined as failing in its targets at the moment. We will shortly see this Government’s response to legal challenges about the soundness of…14 Jan 2026HANSARDCOP Climate Negotiations: CitiesI heartily endorse that sentiment, particularly given that there are 14 US cities in the C40 group and over half of US states already have climate change commitments and net-zero…14 Jan 2026HANSARDCOP Climate Negotiations: CitiesI thank the noble Lord for the Question. I was so eager to answer that I was up before he asked it. The Government recognise the essential role that local places, including…14 Jan 2026HANSARDCOP Climate Negotiations: CitiesThe question of the role of cities in climate change generally is fundamental; by 2050, 80% of people in the world will live in cities. The cities in the C40 group are largely…14 Jan 2026