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HANSARDDraft Electricity and Gas (Energy Company Obligation) Order 2022My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Indeed, I was going to finish talking about what we would like to see by saying something along more or less precisely those lines. In the long…18 Jul 2022HANSARDDraft Electricity and Gas (Energy Company Obligation) Order 2022If the Minister thought all along that because of all the various issues and complexities of this particular scheme, it would take longer than originally anticipated and there…18 Jul 2022HANSARDDraft Electricity and Gas (Energy Company Obligation) Order 2022But we always knew that.18 Jul 2022HANSARDEnergy Price RisesThe Minister knows that, at present, all retail electricity supplies—whether they derive from more expensive gas or cheaper renewables—are charged as though they had all come from…12 Jul 2022HANSARDHome Energy Efficiency: North of EnglandI can assure the hon. Member that I am not approaching this debate as if all the retrofit problems are in the north of England and not in the south. It is a national scandal that…06 Jul 2022HANSARDHome Energy Efficiency: North of EnglandWe have had a good and important debate this afternoon. I congratulate the hon. Member for Darlington (Peter Gibson) on bringing forward the debate and on the exemplary way in…06 Jul 2022HANSARDHome Energy Efficiency: North of EnglandThe hon. Member invites me to make a lengthy speech about what my party has in mind for energy retrofit, but also about what my party has in mind for dealing with complex…06 Jul 2022HANSARDHome Energy Efficiency: North of EnglandThe hon. Gentleman is admirably setting out a series of concerns about how we address the process of retrofitting, which we need to think about very carefully. One of the things…06 Jul 2022HANSARDHome Energy Efficiency: North of Englandrose —06 Jul 2022HANSARDHome Energy Efficiency: North of EnglandI agree with the hon. Member that we need to ensure that we tailor our programmes, not just to the particular areas of the country but to the particular resources that we will…06 Jul 2022HANSARDEnergy Security StrategyWe have had a comprehensive, well-informed and thoughtful discussion this afternoon, instituted by my hon. Friend the Member for Birkenhead (Mick Whitley), whom I congratulate on…05 Jul 2022HANSARDDraft Contracts for Difference (Allocation) and Electricity Market Reform (General) (Amendment) Regulations 2022For the sake of clarity, I certainly do not wish to propose a laissez-faire regime for floating offshore wind generation. I am not arguing that there should not be a good regime,…28 Jun 2022HANSARDDraft Contracts for Difference (Allocation) and Electricity Market Reform (General) (Amendment) Regulations 2022The CfD proposals are essentially non-controversial and in the main pretty straightforward and minor amendments to the CfD regime. As the Minister said, those changes will be of…28 Jun 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsI welcome the proposals to extend the decent homes standard in the private rented sector in the just published, “A fairer private rented sector” White Paper. Is it the…27 Jun 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsT1. If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.27 Jun 2022HANSARDLow-carbon Off-gas Grid HeatingOn the subject of support for these measures, the Minister does not appear to have spent any time talking about what support there might be for heat pumps. I am sure that the…16 Jun 2022HANSARDLow-carbon Off-gas Grid HeatingThis has been a good debate about a very troubled subject. I congratulate the right hon. Member for Clwyd West (Mr Jones) on securing the debate and putting forward…16 Jun 2022HANSARDLow-carbon Off-gas Grid HeatingWill the Minister give way?16 Jun 2022HANSARDDraft Warm Home Discount (England and Wales) Regulations 2022Could we not say 3.2 million and round it down to 3 million?15 Jun 2022HANSARDDraft Warm Home Discount (England and Wales) Regulations 2022It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship this afternoon, Mr Efford. I thank the Minister for his elucidation of the draft regulations before us. He is quite right that…15 Jun 2022