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HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Twelfth sitting)So the Minister can state that all signatory countries to the CSC denominate their compensation in euros, just the same as we do.20 Jun 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Twelfth sitting)I appreciate that Sizewell B is already storing nuclear waste, and I understand that it is doing so quite effectively, although I have not actually been to see it. Obviously,…20 Jun 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Twelfth sitting)So we do not have to denominate these things in euros, because a number of signatories to the CSC do not, and presumably their membership of the CSC is not in jeopardy as a…20 Jun 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [Lords] (Thirteenth sitting)It is interesting that the right hon. Member should mention coal in Germany. As I am sure he is aware, Germany was and has been a particularly heavy user of coal in electricity…20 Jun 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Eleventh sitting)I do not have much to say about the detail of the clauses, inasmuch as they appear to be sensible measures, but I gently point out to the Minister that when he presented the…15 Jun 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Eleventh sitting)I have a question on clause 253, which makes provision for decommissioning where, clearly, the decommissioning of new forms of offshore installation cannot be undertaken. When the…15 Jun 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Eleventh sitting)Yes, Mr Gray, I intend to take part—briefly, the Committee will be relieved to hear. As the Minister has mentioned, the clause concerns the development of new forms of activity in…15 Jun 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Tenth sitting)The amendment is, I hope, germane to the general picture that I have painted of the purport of part 11, which places an onus on companies and those engaged in core fuel sector…15 Jun 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Tenth sitting)Oh, all right. We can have a debate about whether Tom Cruise makes good films or not, but I think the general consensus would be no. The point about that film is that he was, as I…15 Jun 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Eleventh sitting)Yes. I think, Mr Gray, you are drawing an analogy between floating offshore wind and tethered offshore wind and saying that I should restrict my remarks to tethered offshore wind…15 Jun 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Eleventh sitting)My hon. Friend is right again, and she recalls the exact number of conservation zones, which had escaped my memory. We might say that if we had those marine conservation zones in…15 Jun 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Eleventh sitting)My hon. Friend is quite right. She will no doubt be thinking back to the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009, which started to develop exactly the concept that she sets out—that…15 Jun 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Eleventh sitting)Okay. What I was trying to convey—perhaps I did not do so in quite the pellucid way I might have—was what we want to achieve with offshore wind development. As I have said, the…15 Jun 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Tenth sitting)In that film, people were profiled in case they might commit crimes in later life, and they were arrested well before they could commit a crime, or because their profile suggested…15 Jun 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Tenth sitting)We have reached an important part of the Bill, concerning core fuel sector resilience. As the Minister stated, we need to ensure that our core fuel supplies are not cut or…15 Jun 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Eleventh sitting)The hon. Member makes a valid point. Certainly, we do not want to effectively veto the development of offshore wind by putting restrictions on it place by place, scheme by scheme,…15 Jun 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Tenth sitting)I put what I hoped was a fairly reasoned case for amendment 116. I understand what the Minister has said about the circumstances in which directions would be given and the aim of…15 Jun 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Tenth sitting)Welcome to the Chair again, Dr Huq; it is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship. The clause concerns just the interpretation of previous clauses—I am sure that they are…15 Jun 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Eleventh sitting)Indeed. I will endeavour to tether my remarks to the offshore wind in the North sea that we are thinking about. What I was trying to get clear is not that Labour Members want to…15 Jun 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Eleventh sitting)The hon. Member would be absolutely right again, had I said that offshore wind was trashing the environment. I think that when we get the record back we will see that I said, “so…15 Jun 2023