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HANSARDRenewable Energy Providers: Planning ConsiderationsI think that what is being referred to is entirely in the context of what I have been saying about the impediments that we have at the moment. It is well known that we have broad…25 Oct 2023HANSARDRenewable Energy Providers: Planning ConsiderationsNo, I am not saying that at all. Indeed, if right hon. and hon. Members have been following what I have said, they will recognise that what I have said from the beginning is that…25 Oct 2023HANSARDRenewable Energy Providers: Planning ConsiderationsI am happy to bring my remarks to a close, Ms McDonagh, which I anticipate is what you are going to suggest.25 Oct 2023HANSARDRenewable Energy Providers: Planning ConsiderationsI just want to briefly mention the great work that the hon. Member for North Devon (Selaine Saxby) is doing on the Celtic sea. I think she will agree that we must get the offshore…25 Oct 2023HANSARDRenewable Energy Providers: Planning ConsiderationsFirst, I congratulate the hon. Member for Stroud (Siobhan Baillie) on her diligence in obtaining this important debate about the nuts and bolts of how our country gets to a…25 Oct 2023HANSARD Energy Bill [Lords]That was a disappointing and specious defence by the Minister of his intention not to proceed with these proposals from the other place. He knows perfectly well what the barriers…18 Oct 2023HANSARD Energy Bill [Lords]That is not quite the subject of our debate, but the right hon. Member can see that we envisage an energetic and far-reaching proposal to develop the grid in such a way that those…18 Oct 2023HANSARDOnshore Wind IndustryThe Minister will know, although he unaccountably did not tell us, that there was precisely no new onshore wind in England in the recent AR5. The Minister claims that the latest…19 Sept 2023HANSARD Energy Bill [Lords]The Minister is quite right: the Bill has been with us for rather a long time. I am personally delighted that it is before us this afternoon, but we need to remember that Second…05 Sept 2023HANSARD Energy Bill [Lords]I do not think it would be appropriate for me to indicate exactly which amendments from various Members we might or might not support, and it would take a great deal of time for…05 Sept 2023HANSARD Energy Bill [Lords]It is not for me to defend how the Government have managed their arrangements as far as the costs of these measures are concerned, but I would say more generally that we have to…05 Sept 2023HANSARD Energy Bill [Lords]I understand the right hon. Gentleman’s concerns about what the shortly-to-appear Labour Government will be doing on these matters, although I hope that he will not go about…05 Sept 2023HANSARD Energy Bill [Lords]If the hon. Gentleman contains himself, he will see that we have tabled an amendment on low-carbon energy in homes. I agree that we cannot put everything in a Bill but, because of…05 Sept 2023HANSARD Energy Bill [Lords]My hon. Friend is absolutely right. The campaign that he may be referring to was signed up to by the Minister when he was not a Minister; he may have some other views on that…05 Sept 2023HANSARD Energy Bill [Lords]The Government and I have been in considerable discussion about precisely that point. We need to make sure we change the model of ownership of those devices. We perhaps need to…05 Sept 2023HANSARD Energy Bill [Lords]That is remarkably like saying I am encouraging you to use your second car because I shot the tyres out of your first car. The right hon. Member makes a quite ridiculous…05 Sept 2023HANSARD Energy Bill [Lords]I said I would not, but I will.05 Sept 2023HANSARD Energy Bill [Lords]Lack of investment does indeed have a direct impact. If we go back and look at what could have been the case and look at what is the case now, there is a direct link between…05 Sept 2023HANSARD Energy Bill [Lords]No. I have to make progress. New clause 61— “National Warmer Homes and Businesses Action Plan (No. 2)”— addresses another area in which the Government have set out their…05 Sept 2023HANSARD Energy Bill [Lords]No, I will not give way again. My hon. Friend the Member for Birkenhead (Mick Whitley) has a particularly interesting new clause on tidal range. With the right effort and the…05 Sept 2023