Energy: Biofuels

Lord Bradshaw Excerpts
Monday 8th October 2012

(12 years, 1 month ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Bradshaw Portrait Lord Bradshaw
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Let us bear in mind that the people who recycle the food waste to which the noble Lord opposite referred are almost all very small businesses. They are not large corporations. They go round and collect fish-and-chip oil and similar things from shops, and of course they are doing a service in that this stuff is not going to landfill. Will the Minister refocus, please, on the plight of small businesses that are being very adversely affected? The RTFO certificates to which he referred are not compensating for the reduction from the previous scheme.

Earl Attlee Portrait Earl Attlee
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My Lords, although I agree with my noble friend’s analysis, he needs to understand that these fuels are also traded internationally in large quantities.