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HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Seventh sitting)My dead horse was perhaps something of an over-dramatic metaphor, but at the very least the horse is pretty sickly. That is partly because the smart meter wide area systems in the…08 Jun 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Seventh sitting)I think that underlines my point. It is not fit for purpose.08 Jun 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Sixth sitting)The Government motion will remove some of the discussion we would have had this morning on the independent system operator from this part of the Bill to the end of it, in…08 Jun 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Sixth sitting)A little bit—a road at the top of my constituency has you, Ms Nokes, as MP for half of it, while I am the MP for the other half. We are indeed close neighbours. As has been…08 Jun 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Seventh sitting)The Minister is not just a glass half-full guy; he is a glass overflowing and going down the side of the glass on to the table kind of guy. I am not sure I can work out the best…08 Jun 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Sixth sitting)I will raise it as a separate issue.08 Jun 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Seventh sitting)Yes. The various retail energy companies that have been responsible for the roll-out have in many instances tried their hardest, but they have been overcome by the sort of…08 Jun 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Seventh sitting)I have nothing to add. I am happy to agree to the clauses. Question put and agreed to. Clause 129 accordingly ordered to stand part of the Bill. Clauses 130 and 131 ordered to…08 Jun 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Sixth sitting)I do not wish to move or speak to amendment 91 because it is factually deficient. I have a few words to say in the clause stand part debate. Question proposed , That the clause…08 Jun 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Sixth sitting)The clause relates to the question of the installation of heat pumps, as the hon. Member for Kilmarnock and Loudoun correctly drew attention to. The intention of the amendment,…08 Jun 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Seventh sitting)My hon. Friend is absolutely right: the Government did not consider that. There were discussions at the time of the earlier smart meter roll-out about radio systems that could get…08 Jun 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Sixth sitting)The hon. Member is absolutely right. I think the figure is around 6%—sometimes a bit higher—but part of the issue with that loss is not just the general inefficiency of the…08 Jun 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Sixth sitting)This is a bit of a stand-alone clause, in as much as it seeks to separate fusion energy from fission energy in terms of its future regulation. As the Minister set out, it is a…08 Jun 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Sixth sitting)The hon. Member is right that the processes are quite different—I was about to put forward a few reflections on that—but they are not completely unconnected. As she mentioned,…08 Jun 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Sixth sitting)The hon. Member is of course right to say that neutrons, in their own right, cannot produce radioactivity, but that is not what I was saying. What I was saying is that the process…08 Jun 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Sixth sitting)I have nothing to say on the clause, but I believe that my hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield, Hallam does.08 Jun 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Sixth sitting)Into a plasma within a contained vessel. The processes of producing that plasma for the purposes of electricity generation are indeed very different from producing steam,…08 Jun 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Sixth sitting)I hope we have established that it is not the case that fusion activity is much more advantageous than fission from a safety and waste point of view. It is not, in itself,…08 Jun 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Sixth sitting)I would like to move the amendment formally and explain briefly why the Opposition would like the amendment.08 Jun 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [ Lords ] (Seventh sitting)I beg to move amendment 99, clause 160, page 136, line 20, at end insert— “(2) Strategic transmission network projects that are— (a) identified in the Electricity Networks…08 Jun 2023