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HANSARDDraft Warm Home Discount (England and Wales) Regulations 2022My hon. Friend’s intervention emphasises my point. It also emphasises the danger of the scheme itself being price capped, and of the criteria for high energy use and how they…15 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 2022Indeed. It will be precisely the households that are in considerable difficulty and just outside the scope of this measure, expanded though it is. They will be coughing up to sort…15 Jun 2022HANSARDFuture Hydrogen EconomyThis is a very friendly intervention. For the record, will the Minister state the importance of the role hydrogen will play in industrial decarbonisation, particularly in…14 Jun 2022HANSARDFuture Hydrogen EconomyWill the Minister give way?14 Jun 2022HANSARDFuture Hydrogen EconomyI congratulate the hon. Member for Redcar (Jacob Young) on securing this important debate. We are at a juncture with regard to the future of hydrogen. We have pretty much got over…14 Jun 2022HANSARDEnergy Price CapIt would be really nice if the Secretary of State told us when the ECO4 legislation is coming, because ECO4 is not going to work unless that legislation comes forward. The…07 Jun 2022HANSARDDraft Pollution Prevention and Control (Fees) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2022Does the Minister accept that it looks like there are a number of other recoverable costs liable to OPRED that have not been mentioned this afternoon? It would be helpful to know…24 May 2022HANSARDDraft Pollution Prevention and Control (Fees) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2022indicated assent .24 May 2022HANSARDDraft Pollution Prevention and Control (Fees) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2022The statutory instrument before us is about as non-controversial as it gets. There has clearly been a regime in place previously relating to OPRED’S activities and fees. As the…24 May 2022HANSARDDraft Contracts for Difference (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2022I wonder how that ties in with what is in the carbon capture and storage business plan about the articulation of strike price and reference price-type arrangements in capex and…23 May 2022HANSARDDraft Contracts for Difference (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2022I cannot see a great deal that is terribly controversial in the draft regulations, so we will not seek to divide the Committee. Indeed, we substantially support the proposals.…23 May 2022HANSARDDomestic Solar EnergyThe COP26 President acknowledges the tremendous contribution that solar has made and can make to the achievement of our net zero goals. I am sure that he also acknowledges that it…20 Apr 2022HANSARD Energy Price Cap: Residential Buildings with Communal Heating SystemsI will try to be as brief as possible and I will also try to recall, from what seems like an entire Session ago, the discussion that we had earlier this evening and the valuable…20 Apr 2022HANSARDNHS Waiting Lists: SouthamptonThe hospital trust in Southampton, which is an excellent provider, is desperate to get back to elective surgery and non-life-threatening procedures, but finds that it cannot…19 Apr 2022HANSARD UK City of Culture: Southampton’s BidI thank the hon. Member for generously giving way again. I rise both to demonstrate the all-party support for this bid and because I want to ask my right hon. Friend—as the right…19 Apr 2022HANSARD UK City of Culture: Southampton’s Bidrose —19 Apr 2022HANSARDNHS Waiting Lists: Southampton6. What steps he is taking to reduce NHS waiting lists in Southampton.19 Apr 2022HANSARDEnergy Price Increase in April 2022Well, we know what measures the Government have in place to assist customers to manage the sky-high energy price increases now due in April, and frankly pretty miserable they are.…29 Mar 2022HANSARD EnergyThere is a great deal of agreement between us this afternoon on a number of the issues that the Minister raised about the role that heat pumps will play in the future low-carbon…23 Mar 2022