Clause 39
Energy Bill
1:45 pm
Malcolm Wicks (Minister of State (Energy), Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform; Croydon North, Labour)
I was saying this morning that it is not the case that in Scotland there are four or five ROCs for marine. There is a great deal of interest in the Scottish Executive in marine energy, understandably given the terrain, the Pentland Firth and so on. Our position is that it makes sense to have an RO regime that is common to all parts of the UK. That will be the burden of our current discussions with the devolved regimes. That position is sensible because we are a united kingdom, and because of investor confidence and so on.