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HANSARDDraft Nuclear Regulated Asset Base Model (Revenue Collection) Regulations 2023It is a pleasure to serve under the chairmanship of my near constituency neighbour and central south co-ordinator, Dame Caroline. We are not talking about the principle of RAB…06 Feb 2023HANSARDDraft Nuclear Regulated Asset Base Model (Revenue Collection) Regulations 2023Well, just two years ago we thought it was highly unlikely that the LCCC would be giving away £1.4 billion with CfDs, so there we are. On the subject of the LCCC, we have observed…06 Feb 2023HANSARDDraft Nuclear Regulated Asset Base Model (Revenue Collection) Regulations 2023By mentioning “holistic” arrangements, the Minister gives me the opportunity to ask one of my questions now rather than later. What on earth does that mean? What are the…06 Feb 2023HANSARDDraft Nuclear Regulated Asset Base Model (Revenue Collection) Regulations 2023I thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention; he is quite right to be a little surprised about that. This might be what is called anticipatory investment—the LCCC giving…06 Feb 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill Relief Scheme (Non-Standard Cases) Regulations 2023
Energy Bills Support Scheme and Alternative Fuel Payment Pass-through Requirement (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2023I can straightaway inform the Committee that I do not intend to press the two SIs to a vote this evening because they are essentially uncontentious. They complete what is now a…30 Jan 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill Relief Scheme (Non-Standard Cases) Regulations 2023
Energy Bills Support Scheme and Alternative Fuel Payment Pass-through Requirement (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2023None of these will be heat networks.30 Jan 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill Relief Scheme (Non-Standard Cases) Regulations 2023
Energy Bills Support Scheme and Alternative Fuel Payment Pass-through Requirement (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2023Would the Minister like to say anything about the involvement of the energy ombudsman in the process?30 Jan 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill Relief Scheme (Non-Standard Cases) Regulations 2023
Energy Bills Support Scheme and Alternative Fuel Payment Pass-through Requirement (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2023I thought I was, yes. Nevertheless, the point I was trying to make on that occasion was that we are now coming to the end of the period set out for the schemes, particularly the…30 Jan 2023HANSARD Energy Bills: Self-disconnectionOne way or another, there are more than 3 million households on prepayment meters. With the rapid rise in prices and the continuing energy crisis, they are now all at risk of…25 Jan 2023HANSARDDraft Climate Change (Targeted Greenhouse Gases) Order 2022It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Davies. I think we can be brief in our discussions. As the Minister has stated, nitrogen trifluoride is an unbelievably…11 Jan 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill Relief Scheme Pass-through Requirement (Heat Suppliers) (Amendment) Regulations 2022It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Dame Caroline. What the Minister says sounds convincing if we take it just in the context of what is in front of us this…09 Jan 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill Relief Scheme Pass-through Requirement (Heat Suppliers) (Amendment) Regulations 2022Briefly, I just want to emphasise something that the Minister does not seem to have taken on board. He said that a mistake was made, but it was such a basic and egregious…09 Jan 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill Relief Scheme Pass-through Requirement (Heat Suppliers) (Amendment) Regulations 2022rose —09 Jan 2023HANSARDPrepayment Meters: Self-DisconnectionI congratulate the hon. Member for Glasgow North East (Anne McLaughlin) on securing this debate—it is essential that we have it—and on her tenacity in also introducing a…15 Dec 2022HANSARDPrepayment Meters: Self-DisconnectionI thank the hon. Member for emphasising her optimism; let us see how we get on this afternoon. Hon. Members have added to the debate positively by setting out where we are on…15 Dec 2022HANSARDPrepayment Meters: Self-DisconnectionThat is right. We are allowing a group of customers to be ripped off much more easily than other people in the energy sphere. It is good that we have shone a light on that this…15 Dec 2022HANSARDPrepayment Meters: Self-DisconnectionYes, indeed. I said it a few moments ago, and I am happy to repeat it. That, I think, is the minimum that needs to be done at this point, given the crisis faced by people with…15 Dec 2022HANSARDSustainable Energy Generation: Burning TreesThis underpins just how wide this debate really is and what we need to think about: for example, is CCS a reasonable way to go forward in sequestering emissions over the long…06 Dec 2022HANSARDSustainable Energy Generation: Burning TreesI have listened very carefully to the debate and I congratulate the hon. Member for North Devon (Selaine Saxby) on securing it. Overall, we have had a thoughtful debate about the…06 Dec 2022HANSARDSustainable Energy Generation: Burning TreesYes, indeed, we need to take careful account of the points my hon. Friend has made about wider biodiversity issues. However, we have sources of material—starting with the idea of…06 Dec 2022