Clause 17 - Annual reports
Energy Bill [Lords]
2:45 pm
Mr Norman Baker (Shadow Secretary of State for the Environment, Environment, Food & Rural Affairs; Lewes, Liberal Democrat)
These amendments would make the modest change of involving Scottish Ministers and the Scottish Parliament more comprehensively. Scottish Ministers have an interest in how the NDA operates, discharges its responsibilities and carries out its functions, not only when a matter relates directly to Scotland, so that they can form an overall view of the NDA's performance. To make an overall assessment of the NDA, Scottish Ministers need fuller access to material. That is the purpose of the amendments in my name and that of my hon. Friend the Member for Hazel Grove (Mr. Stunell).