Draft Renewable Transport Fuel Obligations (Amendment) Order 2011. Motion to approve. Agreed on question.

Draft Renewable Transport Fuel Obligations (Amendment) Order 2011. Motion to approve. Agreed on question.

My Lords, before the Motion is put to the House, I should like to draw to the attention of the House the fact that the report of the Merits Committee on this order was published last Thursday. Nine noble Lords then debated the order yesterday in the Moses Room so...

My Lords, before the Motion is put to the House, I should like to draw to the attention of the House the fact that the report of the Merits Committee on this order was published last Thursday. Nine noble Lords then debated the order yesterday in the Moses Room so...

My Lords, I accept the thrust of what noble Lords are saying. Regrettably this order is on a very tight timescale for a variety of reasons. I would like to make it clear that I very much value what noble Lords are saying. Yesterday, in Grand Committee, the noble Lord,...

My Lords, I accept the thrust of what noble Lords are saying. Regrettably this order is on a very tight timescale for a variety of reasons. I would like to make it clear that I very much value what noble Lords are saying. Yesterday, in Grand Committee, the noble Lord,...

My Lords, I do not often find myself in agreement with the noble Lord, Lord Davies of Oldham, but on this occasion he is about 110 per cent right.

My Lords, I do not often find myself in agreement with the noble Lord, Lord Davies of Oldham, but on this occasion he is about 110 per cent right.

My Lords, the Minister had a difficult time with this order yesterday, not least because, as the noble Lord, Lord Bradshaw, indicated, the Merits Committee took a rather dim view of its inadequacies. Her Majesty’s Opposition think that this order should go through because of the real urgency of the...

My Lords, the Minister had a difficult time with this order yesterday, not least because, as the noble Lord, Lord Bradshaw, indicated, the Merits Committee took a rather dim view of its inadequacies. Her Majesty’s Opposition think that this order should go through because of the real urgency of the...

My Lords, I should like to echo the words of the noble Lord, Lord Bradshaw. Surely it must be an insult to those of us who spent 90 minutes yesterday in the Moses Room in that the noble Earl agreed to come back to several of us on many major...

My Lords, I should like to echo the words of the noble Lord, Lord Bradshaw. Surely it must be an insult to those of us who spent 90 minutes yesterday in the Moses Room in that the noble Earl agreed to come back to several of us on many major...

That the draft order laid before the House on 14 November be approved. Relevant documents: 33rd Report from the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments, 44th Report from the Merits Committee, considered in Grand Committee on 5 December.

That the draft order laid before the House on 14 November be approved. Relevant documents: 33rd Report from the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments, 44th Report from the Merits Committee, considered in Grand Committee on 5 December.

My Lords, I beg to move the Motion standing in my name on the Order Paper.

My Lords, I beg to move the Motion standing in my name on the Order Paper.

Draft Renewable Transport Fuel Obligations (Amendment) Order 2011 (SI 2011/2937). Lords debate on motion to approve. Agreed to on question.

Draft Renewable Transport Fuel Obligations (Amendment) Order 2011 (SI 2011/2937). Lords debate on motion to approve. Agreed to on question.

Draft Renewable Transport Fuel Obligations (Amendment) Order 2011 (SI 2011/2937). Lords debate on a motion to consider. Agreed to on question. Grand Committee held in the Moses Room.

Draft Renewable Transport Fuel Obligations (Amendment) Order 2011 (SI 2011/2937). Lords debate on a motion to consider. Agreed to on question. Grand Committee held in the Moses Room.

Draft Renewable Transport Fuel Obligations (Amendment) Order 2011 (SI 2011/2937). Considered by Delegated Legislation Committee. Agreed to on question. (Vote)

Draft Renewable Transport Fuel Obligations (Amendment) Order 2011 (SI 2011/2937). Considered by Delegated Legislation Committee. Agreed to on question. (Vote)

My Lords, this has been a useful discussion on a subject that generates a wide variety of views. I will try to address some of the key points that have been raised. The number of noble Lords addressing the Committee clearly shows the importance of this order. The noble Lord,...

My Lords, this has been a useful discussion on a subject that generates a wide variety of views. I will try to address some of the key points that have been raised. The number of noble Lords addressing the Committee clearly shows the importance of this order. The noble Lord,...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to speak on this subject. I also want to make a general comment about how this order was introduced. I worked for Friends of the Earth when the original Bill was being promoted in the House of Lords, and the reason that Friends...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to speak on this subject. I also want to make a general comment about how this order was introduced. I worked for Friends of the Earth when the original Bill was being promoted in the House of Lords, and the reason that Friends...

My Lords, this is a very difficult subject, as the noble Lord, Lord Palmer, said. It is of interest that the department has not produced its statistics up to April 2011—although we are in December. I also have a perception that the department has come to this instrument with a...

My Lords, this is a very difficult subject, as the noble Lord, Lord Palmer, said. It is of interest that the department has not produced its statistics up to April 2011—although we are in December. I also have a perception that the department has come to this instrument with a...

I am sorry; I did not mean that in any derogatory way. I know that unemployment in the north-east is a good deal higher than in other parts of the country, which is why I was urging for more investment in the north-east. I hope the noble Viscount does not...

I am sorry; I did not mean that in any derogatory way. I know that unemployment in the north-east is a good deal higher than in other parts of the country, which is why I was urging for more investment in the north-east. I hope the noble Viscount does not...

Does the noble Lord agree that there is a big difference between decarbonisation and deindustrialisation? Probably the greatest deindustrialisation in this country was in the 1980s. Since then, industry has probably improved and got better.

Does the noble Lord agree that there is a big difference between decarbonisation and deindustrialisation? Probably the greatest deindustrialisation in this country was in the 1980s. Since then, industry has probably improved and got better.

My Lords, I could not put it better myself—in fact, I did not put it better myself and I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Teverson, for pointing that out to the Committee. The Minister must recognise that investor confidence in the industry is low. One plant has effectively...

My Lords, I could not put it better myself—in fact, I did not put it better myself and I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Teverson, for pointing that out to the Committee. The Minister must recognise that investor confidence in the industry is low. One plant has effectively...

I recognise the importance of this order for transport and meeting our climate change obligations. Its sustainability provisions are entirely to be welcomed. However, the lengthening of the timescale from 2011 to 2014 is a further example of the Government dissipating the momentum of the last Labour Government. This is...

I recognise the importance of this order for transport and meeting our climate change obligations. Its sustainability provisions are entirely to be welcomed. However, the lengthening of the timescale from 2011 to 2014 is a further example of the Government dissipating the momentum of the last Labour Government. This is...

My Lords, this has been a fascinating debate. The Minister has quite enough on his plate in terms of issues to tackle without me adding a great deal to his burden. I have some sympathy for him; he is well aware of the fact that the Merits Committee of the...

My Lords, this has been a fascinating debate. The Minister has quite enough on his plate in terms of issues to tackle without me adding a great deal to his burden. I have some sympathy for him; he is well aware of the fact that the Merits Committee of the...

My Lords, the two great drivers—to use modern administrative jargon, as the Minister did—of our ruinously expensive renewable energy policy, which is still subscribed to by the leadership of both the Government and the Opposition in this country, are the Climate Change Act 2008—which, it was estimated by the Government...

My Lords, the two great drivers—to use modern administrative jargon, as the Minister did—of our ruinously expensive renewable energy policy, which is still subscribed to by the leadership of both the Government and the Opposition in this country, are the Climate Change Act 2008—which, it was estimated by the Government...