Clause 10 - Supplemental functions
Energy Bill [Lords]
5:00 pm
Mr Richard Page (South West Hertfordshire, Conservative)
I hesitate to intervene on the Minister. Now that I am on his Christmas card list I do not want to be deleted. The hon. Member for Lewes says that this is a probing amendment, from which one gathers that he will not press it to a vote. He would love to know what relationship the NDA is expected to adopt with the other private companies. To what extent will they be commissioned to do various works and how will money pass from one side to the other? Everyone agrees that they have to do this task and that work has to be undertaken and payment made. No one is against that. That gives the Minister a golden opportunity to explain how he sees this operating in practice.