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Lord Kennedy of Southwark (Lab Co-op)
It is definitely the turn of the Conservative Benches.
Lord Fuller (Con)
My Lords, the crisis is immediate. What assessment have the Government made about the essential products that rely on gas—ammonia, CO2, aniline, soda ash, ethylene and sulphuric acid—without which a modern economy cannot exist and without which factories will close?
Lord Whitehead (Lab)
The noble Lord will know that we have recently engaged in an extensive conversation in corridors about the question of ammonia in the UK economy. This is related to the energy crisis, in as much as we do not have ammonia manufacturing sites in the UK and the manufacture of ammonia is highly energy dependent. One of the ways forward on that is to produce green ammonia, which he will know was a subject of our discussion just recently. That is one way to secure the future of ammonia supplies in the UK without resorting to high levels of fossil fuel in the process.