Clause 25 - Expenditure and receipts of NDA
Energy Bill [Lords]
3:00 pm
Mr Laurence Robertson (Shadow Minister, Economic Affairs; Tewkesbury, Conservative)
I recognise that Parliament initially authorises the payment of money. Quite often, payments that are made to the health service, for example, are itemised and discussed, and that was what was behind the amendment. Given that it would be a detour from ordinary parliamentary scrutiny, reluctantly I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment.
Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.
Amendment made: No. 17, in
clause 25, page 23, line 39, at end add—
'( ) In determining—
(a) whether to make a grant under this section to the NDA, and
(b) the amount of such a grant,
the Secretary of State must have regard, in particular, to the extent to which he considers that the NDA should exercise its power to make grants or loans of the kind mentioned in section 13(2)(c) in order to mitigate the effects of the cessation (whether before or after designation) of the operation of a designated installation.'.—[Mr. Timms.]
Clause 25, as amended, ordered to stand part of the Bill.