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House of Commons

 
 

Thursday 14 January 2010

 

Public Bill Committee

 

New Amendments handed in are marked thus Parliamentary Star

 

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Energy Bill


 

Simon Hughes

 

Mr Phil Willis

 

Martin Horwood

 

Sir Robert Smith

 

22

 

Clause  8,  page  6,  line  24,  at beginning insert ‘On or before 31 December 2010’.

 

Simon Hughes

 

Martin Horwood

 

Sir Robert Smith

 

Mr Phil Willis

 

1

 

Clause  8,  page  6,  line  24,  leave out ‘may’ and insert ‘shall’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

Currently the bill is written in a way that means that the Secretary of State is not required to make

 

schemes for the purpose of reducing fuel poverty. This amendment would place an obligation on

 

him to do so.

 

Simon Hughes

 

Martin Horwood

 

Sir Robert Smith

 

Mr Phil Willis

 

2

 

Clause  8,  page  6,  line  25,  at end insert—

 

‘(1A)    

A scheme under this section must make provision for a national programme to

 

make every home a warm home within 10 years of the passing of this Act. For the

 

purposes of this Act a warm home shall mean a home that is rated 81 or above on

 

the Standard Assessment Procedure (SAP) ratings system.’.


 
 

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Energy Bill, continued

 
 

Simon Hughes

 

Martin Horwood

 

Sir Robert Smith

 

Mr Mike Weir

 

Mr Phil Willis

 

9

 

Clause  8,  page  6,  line  32,  at end insert—

 

‘(d)    

licensed suppliers of liquid petroleum gas for domestic use;

 

(e)    

licensed suppliers of fuel oil for domestic use.’.

 

Nick Ainger

 

Paddy Tipping

 

26

 

Clause  8,  page  6,  line  32,  at end insert—

 

‘(d)    

licensed heating oil suppliers,

 

(e)    

licensed liquefied petroleum gas suppliers,

 

(f)    

licensed compressed natural gas suppliers, or

 

(g)    

licensed solid fuel suppliers.’.

 

Nick Ainger

 

Paddy Tipping

 

27

 

Clause  8,  page  6,  line  35,  after ‘electricity’, insert ‘or heating oil or solid fuel’.

 

Nick Ainger

 

Paddy Tipping

 

28

 

Clause  8,  page  6,  line  35,  leave out ‘or both’.

 

Nick Ainger

 

Paddy Tipping

 

29

 

Clause  8,  page  7,  line  10,  after ‘electricity’, insert ‘or heating oil or solid fuel’.

 

Simon Hughes

 

Mr Phil Willis

 

Martin Horwood

 

Sir Robert Smith

 

31

 

Clause  8,  page  7,  line  11,  at end insert—

 

‘(7A)    

Payments made under paragraph (7)(a) shall only be made to scheme customers

 

on the cheapest tariff offered by the supplier, and the supplier shall be obliged to

 

place all scheme customers on their cheapest available tariff.’.

 

Dr Alan Whitehead

 

Kelvin Hopkins

 

Nick Ainger

 

Mr Graham Allen

 

John Austin

 

Mr Clive Betts

 

30

 

Clause  8,  page  7,  line  46,  at end add—


 
 

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Energy Bill, continued

 
 

‘(11)    

In this Part ‘benefits’ may include benefits other than direct financial benefits.’.

 


 

Mr Mike Weir

 

21

 

Clause  10,  page  9,  line  16,  at end insert—

 

‘(d)    

include within the definition of “scheme supplier” suppliers of home fuel

 

oil and liquid petroleum gas.’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

This amendment will ensure that suppliers of home fuel oil or liquid petroleum gas would be part

 

of any reconciliation mechanism.

 


 

Simon Hughes

 

Martin Horwood

 

Sir Robert Smith

 

Mr Phil Willis

 

7

 

Clause  14,  page  11,  line  29,  leave out paragraph (b).

 

Simon Hughes

 

Martin Horwood

 

Sir Robert Smith

 

Mr Phil Willis

 

8

 

Clause  14,  page  11,  line  41,  leave out subsection (4).

 


 

Greg Clark

 

Charles Hendry

 

Gregory Barker

 

Bill Wiggin

 

35

 

Clause  16,  page  13,  line  12,  after ‘them’, insert ‘and gas storage for them’.

 

Greg Clark

 

Charles Hendry

 

Gregory Barker

 

Bill Wiggin

 

12

 

Clause  16,  page  13,  line  14,  leave out ‘or the Authority (as the case may be)’.


 
 

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Energy Bill, continued

 
 

Greg Clark

 

Charles Hendry

 

Gregory Barker

 

Bill Wiggin

 

33

 

Clause  16,  page  13,  line  18,  leave out ‘or’ and insert ‘,’.

 

Greg Clark

 

Charles Hendry

 

Gregory Barker

 

Bill Wiggin

 

34

 

Clause  16,  page  13,  line  19,  after ‘pipes’, insert ‘or gas storage’.

 

Greg Clark

 

Charles Hendry

 

Gregory Barker

 

Bill Wiggin

 

13

 

Clause  16,  page  13,  line  22,  leave out ‘or the Authority’.

 


 

Greg Clark

 

Charles Hendry

 

Gregory Barker

 

Bill Wiggin

 

14

 

Clause  17,  page  14,  line  23,  leave out ‘or the Authority (as the case may be)’.

 

Greg Clark

 

Charles Hendry

 

Gregory Barker

 

Bill Wiggin

 

15

 

Clause  17,  page  14,  line  31,  leave out ‘or the Authority’.

 


 

Greg Clark

 

Charles Hendry

 

Gregory Barker

 

Bill Wiggin

 

25

 

Clause  18,  page  16,  line  21,  at end add—

 

‘(d)    

the establishment of a competition for the construction of undersea high

 

voltage direct current cables for the purposes of connecting offshore

 

electricity generation to the onshore grid.’.

 



 
 

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Energy Bill, continued

 
 

Simon Hughes

 

Mr Phil Willis

 

Martin Horwood

 

Sir Robert Smith

 

23

 

Clause  26,  page  21,  line  36,  at beginning insert ‘With effect from 1 June 2010’.

 

Simon Hughes

 

Martin Horwood

 

Sir Robert Smith

 

Mr Phil Willis

 

5

 

Clause  26,  page  22,  line  1,  leave out subsection (3).

 


 

Simon Hughes

 

Mr Phil Willis

 

Martin Horwood

 

Sir Robert Smith

 

24

 

Clause  27,  page  22,  line  6,  leave out ‘considers’ and insert ‘discovers’.

 

Simon Hughes

 

Martin Horwood

 

Sir Robert Smith

 

Mr Mike Weir

 

Mr Phil Willis

 

10

 

Clause  27,  page  22,  line  25,  at end insert—

 

‘(d)    

liquid petroleum gas for domestic use customers;

 

(e)    

fuel oil for domestic use customers.’.

 

Simon Hughes

 

Martin Horwood

 

Sir Robert Smith

 

Mr Mike Weir

 

Mr Phil Willis

 

11

 

Clause  27,  page  22,  line  32,  at end insert—

 

‘(d)    

as respects a relevant liquid petroleum gas for domestic use customer;

 

(e)    

as respects a fuel oil for domestic use customers.’.

 

Simon Hughes

 

Martin Horwood

 

Sir Robert Smith

 

Mr Phil Willis

 

6

 

Clause  27,  page  22,  line  37,  at end insert ‘, or

 

(c)    

the method by which the customer pays their energy bill’.


 
 

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Energy Bill, continued

 
 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

This would allow the Government to take into account differentials in charges between prepay cus­

 

tomers and direct debit customers when considering the adjustment of charges to help disadvan­

 

taged customers.

 


 

new clauses

 

Carbon emissions performance standard

 

Simon Hughes

 

Martin Horwood

 

Sir Robert Smith

 

John Hemming

 

Mr Phil Willis

 

Mr Edward Davey

 

John Thurso

 

NC1

 

To move the following Clause:—

 

‘(1)    

The Secretary of State shall make provision by regulations for a carbon emissions

 

performance standard to set the maximum level of carbon dioxide that may be

 

emitted for each unit of output by any new coal fired electricity generating

 

station.

 

(2)    

The emissions performance standard shall come into effect immediately on

 

passage of this Act and will be progressively lowered so that new coal fired power

 

stations will produce no carbon emissions from 2020.’.

 


 

Emissions performance standard

 

Greg Clark

 

Charles Hendry

 

Gregory Barker

 

Bill Wiggin

 

NC2

 

To move the following Clause:—

 

‘(1)    

The Secretary of State may by regulation introduce an Emissions Performance

 

Standard to apply to all electricity generation plants.

 

(2)    

In this section “Emission Performance Standard” means a restriction on the

 

amount of carbon dioxide that electricity generation plants are permitted to emit.’.

 



 
 

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Energy Bill, continued

 
 

Green deal

 

Greg Clark

 

Charles Hendry

 

Gregory Barker

 

Bill Wiggin

 

NC3

 

To move the following Clause:—

 

‘(1)    

The Secretary of State may by regulations introduce a scheme whereby every

 

household shall have an entitlement for household energy efficiency measures.

 

(2)    

The Secretary of State may by regulations require suppliers to add repayment

 

charges to household electricity bills over a period to be set by the Secretary of

 

State.

 

(3)    

The Secretary of State may by regulations modify the Metering Point

 

Administration Service to allow access to the data for the disbursement and

 

repayment of the entitlement.

 

(4)    

A support scheme may make provision about arrangements to be made by scheme

 

suppliers to ensure that, so far as is practicable, scheme customers receive the

 

benefits to be provided under the scheme, which may in particular include

 

provision about—

 

(a)    

arrangements for enabling scheme suppliers to identify scheme

 

customers;

 

(b)    

arrangements for drawing to the attention of scheme customers—

 

(i)    

the fact that benefits are available under the scheme, and

 

(ii)    

ways of applying for those benefits;

 

(c)    

arrangements for providing the benefits.’.

 


 

Transparency on energy bills

 

Greg Clark

 

Charles Hendry

 

Gregory Barker

 

Bill Wiggin

 

NC4

 

To move the following Clause:—

 

‘(1)    

The Secretary of State may modify—

 

(a)    

a condition of the licence of section 11A of the Electricity Act 1989

 

(transmission licences and supply licences) to make provision on energy

 

bills for information on the cheapest tariff available to the customer from

 

their supplier;

 

(b)    

a condition of the licence of section 23 (1) (b) of the Gas Act 1986

 

(transmission licences and supply licences) to make provision on energy

 

bills for information on the cheapest tariff available to the customer from

 

their supplier;

 

(c)    

the standard conditions incorporated in licences under those provisions

 

by virtue of those Acts;


 
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