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Commons Chamber
Energy Prices Bill
Committee stage: Committee of the whole House - Mon 17 Oct 2022
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Rosie Winterton (LAB - Doncaster Central) and gas-fired power stations.(2) In addition the Secretary of State must lay before the House an official - Speech Link
2: Graham Stuart (CON - Beverley and Holderness) The power to give financial support is a time-limited power, at three years and six months. - Speech Link
3: David Linden (SNP - Glasgow East) and retrofitting, which would cut 20% from the cost straightaway and act as a fiscal stimulus for a construction - Speech Link
4: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) , and we all know by how much the price of coal has jumped. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Energy Bill [HL]
Committee stage - Wed 07 Sep 2022
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Lord Howell of Guildford (CON - Life peer) There is a theoretical idea that finding a way to cheaply cap every chimney of the 9,000 coal-fired stations - Speech Link
2: Lord Teverson (LDEM - Life peer) I will say that one obvious area where we should be doing this is in building and construction, where - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) , in 2015, Steve Holliday, the then CEO of National Grid, said that the idea of baseload relying on coal-fired - Speech Link
4: None stations within a set timeframe. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Energy Bill [HL]
Committee stage - Mon 05 Sep 2022
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Lord Howell of Guildford (CON - Life peer) It is because the fact of what it can do enables the rest of the power system and all the power stations - Speech Link
2: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (GRN - Life peer) Nuclear power stations take a long time to come online. - Speech Link
3: Lord Lennie (LAB - Life peer) He raised questions about power stations being built and the figure of one a year for however many years - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Energy Bill [HL]
2nd reading - Tue 19 Jul 2022
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Lord Howell of Guildford (CON - Life peer) we must be at the forefront in off-setting the millions of tonnes of carbon which the thousands of coal-fired - Speech Link
2: Viscount Hanworth (LAB - Excepted Hereditary) rapidly and cheaply in combined-cycle gas turbine generating plant, which displaced many of the ageing coal-fired - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Social Housing (Regulation) Bill [HL]
2nd reading - Mon 27 Jun 2022
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Wilcox of Newport (LAB - Life peer) The Bill proposes giving the regulator the power to issue unlimited fines. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hayman (CB - Life peer) electricity, it will help by lowering demand in the coldest months of the year, when our museum-piece coal-fired - Speech Link
3: Lord Greenhalgh (CON - Life peer) The Regulator of Social Housing has the emergency repair power. - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Contracts for Difference (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2022 - Mon 23 May 2022
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Lee Rowley (CON - North East Derbyshire) the subsequent net zero strategy, the Government committed to use consumer subsidies to support the construction - Speech Link
2: Alan Whitehead (LAB - Southampton, Test) We could, for example, have a conversion activity from a coal plant to biomass that included CCS in its - Speech Link
3: Alan Brown (SNP - Kilmarnock and Loudoun) That is something that they need to look at as part of the big picture.On power stations with CCS, whether - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Contracts for Difference (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2022 - Tue 17 May 2022
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Lord Callanan (CON - Life peer) In the subsequent Net Zero Strategy, the Government committed to using consumer subsidies to support construction - Speech Link
2: Lord Teverson (LDEM - Life peer) stations is unclear. - Speech Link
3: Lord Callanan (CON - Life peer) Advances in gas turbine technology mean that a purpose-built, modern, new-build gas-fired power station - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Mon 16 May 2022
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Lord Wakeham (CON - Life peer) I am pretty certain that any sensible nuclear industry will avoid building power stations the size of - Speech Link
2: Lord Young of Cookham (CON - Life peer) My noble friend on the Front Bench will be able to say exactly how many power stations that equates to - Speech Link
3: Lord Grantchester (LAB - Excepted Hereditary) two centuries, we have grown and prospered across three major energy transitions: the emergence of coal - Speech Link
4: Lord Altrincham (CON - Excepted Hereditary) stations and that kind of stuff. - Speech Link
5: Earl of Leicester (CON - Excepted Hereditary) We will need oil, nuclear and maybe even one or two coal-fired power stations—one in Cumbria springs - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Nuclear Energy (Financing) Bill
Committee stage - Tue 08 Mar 2022
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Lord Callanan (CON - Life peer) of new nuclear power stations. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist (CON - Life peer) of new nuclear power stations. - Speech Link
3: Lord Wigley (PC - Life peer) If they are serious about having a new programme of nuclear power stations, they must grasp the nettle - Speech Link
4: Viscount Hanworth (LAB - Excepted Hereditary) stations, so the skills that constructed the majority of the French and our own power stations had evaporated - Speech Link
5: Viscount Hanworth (LAB - Excepted Hereditary) It is envisaged that such power stations will be able to supply the plentiful electricity needed to power - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Energy: Civil Nuclear Power - Thu 09 Dec 2021
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Viscount Hanworth (LAB - Excepted Hereditary) The successful investment of private companies in gas-fired power stations, which have largely replaced - Speech Link
2: Lord Goodlad (CON - Life peer) Faced with the fact that the existing nuclear power stations and the thermal power stations were approaching - Speech Link
3: Lord Grantchester (LAB - Excepted Hereditary) generation capacity, rising to 43% before falling back to 32% in 2020-21, due to the closure of many coal-fired - Speech Link