Clause 84 - Gas and Electricity Markets Authority sustainability duty
Energy Bill [Lords]
9:45 am
Mr Norman Baker (Shadow Secretary of State for the Environment, Environment, Food & Rural Affairs; Lewes, Liberal Democrat)
I am surprised by that idea. I would not use the word ''Thatcherite'', but it is certainly moving in that direction. There are already duties on the regulator. There is, for example, the duty to protect the consumer, a policy that the Government have set.