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HANSARDEnergy 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 ] (Eleventh sitting)As the Minister has said, we are making progress with this enormous Bill, part of which is the enormous clause 245 and everything that goes with it. Hon. Members will see that Mr…15 Jun 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Tenth sitting)I am a little puzzled by what the Minister has said previously about the extent to which there has been consultation and discussion with industry and employers in this area. The…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)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)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)I think I come under the category of “anyone else”, Dr Huq. I may be wrong, but the clause appears to be about appeals against a notice or direction that relates not just to the…15 Jun 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Tenth sitting)I have no further comments on the clauses; we are happy for them to proceed. Question put and agreed to. Clause 228 accordingly ordered to stand part of the Bill. Clauses 229 to…15 Jun 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Ninth sitting)Clause 205 is the beginning of the part of the Bill on the energy performance of properties. I must admit that I thought for a moment there was going to be a spectacular U-turn on…13 Jun 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Ninth sitting)This year?13 Jun 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Ninth sitting)I have nothing to add to what the Minister said. I am happy for the clauses to stand part of the Bill. Question put and agreed to. Clause 211 accordingly ordered to stand part of…13 Jun 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Ninth sitting)I do not have anything to say on these clauses, other than to note that we are now into the energy savings opportunity scheme, and that the Minister is indeed right that schemes…13 Jun 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Ninth sitting)I will just mention in passing that there is an interesting progression in clause 219, relating to directions. Subsection (1) says: “The Secretary of State may give directions to…13 Jun 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Ninth sitting)Indeed, but presumably if the Secretary of State changed his mind, he would not start with subsection (1) in the first place, so it is a bit of a strange formulation. I think that…13 Jun 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Eighth sitting)I did raise my hand, but it was my left hand rather than my right hand.13 Jun 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Eighth sitting)I should start by apologising to you, Mr Gray, for being marginally late. Those who know me will know that although I am usually rather close to the line in getting to my seat, I…13 Jun 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Eighth sitting)It is an interesting debate in its own right.13 Jun 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Eighth sitting)Do you want to know whether I am going to withdraw amendment 101, Mr Gray?13 Jun 2023