Member

Amendment 86, tabled by the noble Earl, Lord Russell, seeks to mandate that financial benefits must be provided to communities connected with a major energy infrastructure project. The amendment achieves this by adding an additional clause to the Bill which would introduce regulations requiring owners of major infrastructure to provide 5% of annual revenue to local communities that host these projects. The Government support the intent of the amendment. As stated in our manifesto and the Clean Power 2030 Action Plan, we intend to ensure that communities which host clean energy infrastructure benefit from it. I assure noble Lords that the Government are already considering how we would employ that community benefit from energy infrastructure.