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HANSARDContracts for Difference (Sustainable Industry Rewards and Contract Budget Notice Amendments) Regulations 2026I thank the noble Lord for that point, which confirms that we are both substantially rightish. In some subtexts of the overall charter, there are still some things to be sorted…23 Mar 2026HANSARDContracts for Difference (Sustainable Industry Rewards and Contract Budget Notice Amendments) Regulations 2026I thank the noble Lord for that clarifying intervention. Essentially—forgive me for putting it quite like this—both of us are more or less right: the charter is there and has been…23 Mar 2026HANSARDOnshore Wind FarmsThe Government are already undertaking changes to planning arrangements to make sure that schemes can proceed faster and more immediately. In the case of repowering, that is…23 Mar 2026HANSARDOnshore Wind FarmsThe Government recognise the importance of repowering to maximise the benefits from our existing fleet of turbines. We are working to remove barriers in the planning system to…23 Mar 2026HANSARDContracts for Difference (Sustainable Industry Rewards and Contract Budget Notice Amendments) Regulations 2026My Lords, votes in this House are tremendously helpful for securing clarity where maybe there was not clarity before in certain aspects. They are particularly helpful half way…23 Mar 2026HANSARDWarm Home Discount (England and Wales) Regulations 2026That the Grand Committee do consider the Warm Home Discount (England and Wales) Regulations 2026.23 Mar 2026HANSARDContracts for Difference (Sustainable Industry Rewards and Contract Budget Notice Amendments) Regulations 2026I thank noble Lords for their important contributions to this debate. I did not hear any particular dissent from the idea that this is a good thing that will help British supply…23 Mar 2026HANSARDWarm Home Discount (England and Wales) Regulations 2026What we are asking landlords to do under the Warm Homes Plan is an extension of some of the work done to uprate properties from band E, whereby landlords could put some money,…23 Mar 2026HANSARDWarm Home Discount (England and Wales) Regulations 2026My Lords, these regulations were laid before this House on 2 February 2026. The warm home discount scheme has been a key policy in the Government’s approach to tackling fuel…23 Mar 2026HANSARDWarm Home Discount (England and Wales) Regulations 2026I apologise to the noble Lord. I am afraid I did not address that question directly, but the privacy notice for the warm home discount is published on the GOV.UK website, where it…23 Mar 2026HANSARDWarm Home Discount (England and Wales) Regulations 2026Yes, I am happy to take that away. I am aware that, although great strides have been taken in recent years in allowing data sharing to work efficiently across different…23 Mar 2026HANSARDOnshore Wind FarmsWe have been around this path several times before recently. Suddenly introducing lots more gas into the system will make no difference to the resilience of this country against…23 Mar 2026HANSARDOnshore Wind FarmsI pay tribute to the noble Baroness for all her work in this field and for introducing that Bill. As far as getting on with it is concerned, there is nobody who wants to get on…23 Mar 2026HANSARDOnshore Wind FarmsI am sure we will not, because onshore power, like offshore power and all other forms of renewable power, has to abide by planning guidelines and guidance and has to fit in well…23 Mar 2026HANSARDOnshore Wind FarmsI am slightly puzzled by the noble Lord’s enunciation of that question, in that renewable wind and overhead power lines go closely together, because the overhead power lines have…23 Mar 2026HANSARDOnshore Wind FarmsWell indeed. The first thing, literally, that the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero did upon the Labour Government taking office was to remove the ban on onshore wind…23 Mar 2026HANSARDOnshore Wind FarmsI had thought that I was talking this afternoon about the repowering of wind turbines—that is, turbines that have completed their life in terms of their original blades and…23 Mar 2026HANSARDWarm Home Discount (England and Wales) Regulations 2026I am delighted to tell the noble Baroness that I cannot speak for the Cabinet Office’s website, but I take her point that these things need to be clarified as much as possible.…23 Mar 2026HANSARDUK Energy Sources and Cost of EnergyNo, the Energy Secretary does not wish to see drilling for North Sea oil banned. What he is doing, as the noble Lord will know, is developing transitional energy certificates,…19 Mar 2026HANSARDUK Energy Sources and Cost of EnergyThe noble Lord mentions what is potentially a very effective, long-term and secure method of homegrown energy. As I mentioned in my initial Answer, the long-term way to protect…19 Mar 2026