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HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Third sitting)I thank the hon. Lady for her questions, and I appreciate that clarity is required on this issue. I will give her a fuller answer in writing. What I will not be able to do,…28 Oct 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Third sitting)I should add, as I said in my original response, that when public authorities are giving the subsidy, it is important to ensure that that subsidy is going to the enterprises for…28 Oct 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Third sitting)Clause 9 establishes that the subsidy control principles are set out in schedule 1 to the Bill, and that the further principles for public authorities awarding energy and…28 Oct 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Third sitting)As we have heard, amendment 6 seeks to include areas of deprivation as an example of the equity rationale that may be addressed through subsidies. Firstly, I would like to use…28 Oct 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Third sitting)It will set that out in guidance. The hon. Member for Feltham and Heston talked about the evidence session, and Guildford got quite a bad rap, having come up a couple of times as…28 Oct 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Third sitting)In terms of levelling up, it has been designed to provide a bespoke and dynamic framework. It allows public authorities to deliver bespoke subsidies that are tailored to their…28 Oct 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Third sitting)I agree that we should be doing so, but what I am saying is that we do not need to do it in a process-driven way. It should be done, in the first place, in the devising and…28 Oct 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Third sitting)Let me answer that point before I speak to amendment 7. The two schedules and the additional principles are there literally just to adhere to our international obligations. Hon.…28 Oct 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Third sitting)Essentially, the framework and the clause minimise, but cannot eliminate, distortion. That is the purpose of the Bill.28 Oct 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Third sitting)My hon. Friend makes a good point. The Bill weighs up the benefits versus the disadvantages, and minimises rather than eliminates distortion—we cannot eliminate distortion. We…28 Oct 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Fourth sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Nokes. The schedule lists the additional energy and environmental principles that energy and environment subsidies must be…28 Oct 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Fourth sitting)The streamlined subsidy schemes will be worked up as we come up to the commencement of the Bill, so I will not set out a list of streamlined moots as yet, but they are there for…28 Oct 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Fourth sitting)Rather than a streamlined scheme encroaching on the devolution settlement, it is important to stress that any public authority in the UK will be free under the Bill to create a…28 Oct 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Fourth sitting)If the Committee will bear with me—28 Oct 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Fourth sitting)What I was saying was that streamlined subsidy schemes do not need to be UK-wide. We are not putting that on the face of the Bill. They work best and are more effective when they…28 Oct 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Fourth sitting)The streamlined schemes are not effectively the most commonly used ones. They are few and far between. The schemes will be far more tailored. They do very similar things and…28 Oct 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Fourth sitting)As we have heard, amendment 11 would require the Government to make the regulations within three months. The Government fully recognise the importance of establishing clear…28 Oct 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Fourth sitting)Clearly, we want to make sure that the regulations go through due parliamentary process and that colleagues have plenty of time to see them, discuss them and scrutinise them. That…28 Oct 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Fourth sitting)Obviously, the Government welcome the devolved Administrations’ ongoing interest in the Bill, and we continue to engage with them on a regular basis. In coming up with this…28 Oct 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Fourth sitting)The clause will enable the Secretary of State to make secondary legislation to define subsidies or subsidy schemes of interest, or of particular interest. We know that some…28 Oct 2021