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HANSARDSupport for Energy Customers: Winter 2022-23We are providing a £400 discount through the energy bills support scheme over this winter, as well as the energy price guarantee, which will support millions of households and…25 Oct 2022HANSARDSMEs: Red TapeHis Majesty’s Government are committed to supporting small and medium-sized enterprises through exemption of new regulations where possible. This exemption was recently extended…25 Oct 2022HANSARDSMEs: Red TapeWadworth is a very well-known west country brewer. I used to live not very far from a tied pub in Wadworth’s capable hands, and it is a distinguished company that serves fine…25 Oct 2022HANSARDSMEs: Red TapeI look forward to the hon. Lady’s supporting the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill, which is coming later today and will get rid of lots and lots of dreadful EU…25 Oct 2022HANSARDSupport for Energy Customers: April 2023The hon. Gentleman makes a very important point. Everyone in this House is concerned about their constituents, the least well-off constituents, which is why such a big package of…25 Oct 2022HANSARDSupport for Energy Customers: April 2023There is a certain eccentricity in the Scottish nationalists’ boasting of the amount of oil and gas they get when they have been opposing efforts to increase the licensing round.…25 Oct 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsPots and kettles, Mr Speaker—that was neither short nor sweet. The greatest uncertainty of all is having socialists in office because the socialists ruin economies wherever they…25 Oct 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsOne of the things that we are doing in the Bill that is receiving Royal Assent pretty much as we speak, is ensuring that there are powers to deal with any inefficiencies in the…25 Oct 2022HANSARD Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI now give way to my right hon. Friend the Member for South Northamptonshire (Dame Andrea Leadsom).25 Oct 2022HANSARD Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillThe Scottish Parliament has been reluctant to give legislative consent motions to any Brexit-related legislation because of the politics of the SNP. That is a view that it has…25 Oct 2022HANSARD Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI know from my previous experience that His Majesty’s Government will observe the Sewel convention in relation to this. There may be occasions on which, for simplicity, the…25 Oct 2022HANSARD Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. The ports directive was debated and debated, and opposed on both sides of the House, but it went through anyway. There was absolutely nothing…25 Oct 2022HANSARD Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillThe hon. Gentleman makes a valid point. The scrutiny of statutory instruments in this House is not all that it should be. I actually think that the other place does it better. I…25 Oct 2022HANSARDBusiness UpdateThis statement will be made at a later date. [HCWS338]21 Oct 2022HANSARDSubsidy Control RegimeI am announcing today, 20 October 2022, that the Government intend to bring the Subsidy Control Act fully into force on 4 January 2023. The Act provides the framework for a new,…20 Oct 2022HANSARD Ban on Fracking for Shale Gas BillI am grateful to my hon. Friend. We are not pre-empting local consent in the letter that I sent out, so he is right. I think that the time has come for me to return to my text—at…19 Oct 2022HANSARD Ban on Fracking for Shale Gas BillI think my hon. Friend the Member for Winchester (Steve Brine) wanted to intervene, and I will happily give way to him.19 Oct 2022HANSARD Ban on Fracking for Shale Gas BillLet me be absolutely clear: local communities will have a veto. If fracking does not get local consent—what form that local consent must take will be consulted on, and it could…19 Oct 2022HANSARD Ban on Fracking for Shale Gas BillMy hon. Friend is right to say that today is not the end of the matter. If the House were not to accept the local consent mechanism, there would be no ability for local…19 Oct 2022HANSARD Ban on Fracking for Shale Gas BillI am grateful to my right hon. Friend. That is absolutely the purpose of the consultation—to see what form local consent ought to take19 Oct 2022