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Question put and agreed to.
Bill ordered to be brought in by Jim Knight, Mrs. Alice Mahon, Ian Lucas, Mr. Andrew Miller, Bob Russell, Tim Loughton, Mrs. Louise Ellman, Mr. Denis Murphy, Mr. David Kidney, Mr. Alan Campbell, Clive Efford and Mr. David Amess.
Jim Knight accordingly presented a Bill to create offences of motor vehicle manslaughter and aggravated motor vehicle manslaughter; to amend the law relating to road traffic; and for connected purpose: And the same was read the First time; and ordered to be read a Second time on Friday 15 October, and to be printed [Bill 139].
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Orders of the Day
Statute Law (Repeals) Bill [Lords]
[Relevant document: The First Report of the Joint Committee on Consolidation, &c., Bills, Session 2003–04, on the Statute Law (Repeals) Bill [HL], HC 403.]
Read a Second time.
Motion made, and Question put forthwith, pursuant to Standing Order No. 58 (Consolidation Bills),
That the Bill be not committed.—[Jim Fitzpatrick.]
Question agreed to.
Read the Third time, and passed, without amendment.
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Energy Bill [Lords]
As amended in the Standing Committee, considered.
1.49 pm
Mr. Alex Salmond (Banff and Buchan) (SNP): On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. We are about to begin consideration of the Energy Bill, the timetable for which was agreed at an earlier stage. Additional information has come to light since the Committee stage that influences several amendments that Mr. Speaker, with his normal great wisdom, has selected under the heading "Distribution costs and transmission charges." The amendments address future electricity generation in Scotland and the future of the Government's renewable targets, so they are of vital concern. Is there anything that we can do to guarantee that those vital amendments will not be talked out due to the timetable that was produced at an earlier stage of the Bill, given their huge importance to Scotland?
Mr. Deputy Speaker (Sir Michael Lord): The hon. Gentleman will appreciate that the Chair has no control over the length of time for which hon. Members speak, and is bound by the Programme Order that the House has already agreed.
New Clause 4
'(1) The Secretary of State—
(a) must prepare a strategy for the promotion of microgeneration in Great Britain; and
(b) may from time to time revise it.
(2) The Secretary of State—
(a) must publish the strategy within 18 months after the commencement of this section; and
(b) if he revises it, must publish the revised strategy.
(3) In preparing or revising the strategy, the Secretary of State must consider the contribution that is capable of being made by microgeneration to—
(a) cutting emissions of greenhouse gases in Great Britain;
(b) reducing the number of people living in fuel poverty in Great Britain;
(c) reducing the demands on transmission systems and distribution systems situated in Great Britain;
(d) reducing the need for those systems to be modified;
(e) enhancing the availability of electricity and heat for consumers in Great Britain.
(4) Before preparing or revising the strategy, the Secretary of State must consult such persons appearing to him to represent the producers and suppliers of plant used for microgeneration, and such other persons, as he considers appropriate.
(5) The Secretary of State must take reasonable steps to secure the implementation of the strategy in the form in which it has most recently been published.
(6) For the purposes of this section "microgeneration" means the use for the generation of electricity or the production of heat of any plant—
(a) which in generating electricity or (as the case may be) producing heat, relies wholly or mainly on a source of energy or a technology mentioned in subsection (7); and
(b) the capacity of which to generate electricity or (as the case may be) to produce heat does not exceed the capacity mentioned in subsection (8).
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(7) Those sources of energy and technologies are—
(a) biomass;
(b) biofuels;
(c) fuel cells;
(d) photovoltaics;
(e) water (including waves and tides);
(f) wind;
(g) solar power;
(h) geothermal sources;
(i) combined heat and power systems;
(j) other sources of energy and technologies for the generation of electricity or the production of heat, the use of which would, in the opinion of the Secretary of State, cut emissions of greenhouse gases in Great Britain.
(8) That capacity is—
(a) in relation to the generation of electricity, 50 kilowatts;
(b) in relation to the production of heat, 45 kilowatts thermal.
(9) In this section—
"consumers" includes both existing and future consumers;
"distribution system" and "transmission system" have the same meanings as in Part 1 of the 1989 Act;
"fuel poverty" has the same meaning as in section 1 of the Sustainable Energy Act 2003 (c. 30);
"greenhouse gases" means—
(a) carbon dioxide;
(b) methane;
(c) nitrous oxide;
(d) hydrofluorocarbons;
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