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HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Fourth sitting)Streamlined subsidy schemes have an important role to play in supporting public authorities to deliver well-designed subsidies: subsidies that address market failures but minimise…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)The spirit is certainly there, but I do not want to bind future Administrations to a requirement to respond in emergency situations.28 Oct 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Fourth sitting)As we have heard, the Government intend streamlined subsidy schemes to be a pragmatic means of establishing schemes for commonly awarded subsidies. That includes subsidies in…28 Oct 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Fourth sitting)I am grateful to the hon. Member. It is important that we continue to talk about this issue, so I am happy to discuss it further.28 Oct 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Fourth sitting)Absolutely. The Government have determined—as we did in debate on the United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020—that subsidy control is a reserved matter, so it is right that…28 Oct 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Fourth sitting)As we have heard, the clause confirms that public authorities can create a subsidy scheme and that a Minister of the Crown can create a streamlined subsidy scheme. I have talked…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 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Fourth sitting)The clause is central to the new subsidy control regime. It will impose a duty on public authorities to consider the subsidy control principles before deciding whether to give an…28 Oct 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Fourth sitting)In the first instance, an interested party can request the public authority to provide information demonstrating how it has complied with the duty under clause 76. Under part 5 of…28 Oct 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Fourth sitting)Absolutely. I was going to say that the interested party can, obviously, make a challenge—commence a judicial review of the decision. The duty to consider and act consistently…28 Oct 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Fourth sitting)I remind hon. Members that the principles in schedule 2 include general matters such as requiring energy and environmental subsidies to be aimed at, or to incentivise the…28 Oct 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Fourth sitting)It might be. Whether there would be a slew of judicial reviews remains to be seen, but certainly, there is a question whether subsidies for other policy objectives would be…28 Oct 2021