Clause 25 - Expenditure and receipts of NDA
Energy Bill [Lords]
3:00 pm
Mr Laurence Robertson (Shadow Minister, Economic Affairs; Tewkesbury, Conservative)
I beg to move amendment No. 100, in
clause 25, page 23, line 33, at end insert
'by order approved by a resolution of the House of Commons'.
This is a serious amendment and refers to grants that the Secretary of State may make to the NDA. I also thank the Minister for the very helpful statement, which identifies that the total cost of the NDA's programme over the next century is £50 billion; perhaps more importantly, the initial figure is some £2 billion a year. It seems to me that the House of Commons should approve grants of that magnitude to the NDA, which is the purpose of my amendment.