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Lord Murray of Blidworth (Con)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 13 January 2025

Debate

Great British Energy Bill

Contribution

I am very grateful to the Minister for that response to this group. Plainly, I am also very grateful to my noble friend Lord Fuller for advancing his amendments. I suspect that, given the weather forecast, those in the control rooms will be glad to get back to patience and solitaire. I am also grateful to my noble friends Lord Trenchard and Lord Ashcombe for their contributions. We discerned from those speeches that it is unsatisfactory that standby gas generation appears to be driving the price. I agree with my noble friend Lord Ashcombe that this is necessarily worrying, and it seems appropriate for the Bill to contain a direction that the Secretary of State can require GB Energy to provide clear transparency on what is driving the allocation of these renewable prices. It is therefore vital that a measure similar those proposed in these amendments makes its way into the Bill, and I invite the Minister to so consider. With that, I withdraw my amendment.

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