New Clause 4
Green Energy (Definition and Promotion) Bill
4:15 pm
Martin Horwood (Cheltenham, Liberal Democrat)
My thanks to you, Miss Begg, for presiding over this Bill Committee. If all Public Bill Committees were as complete in their consideration of amendments and were as quick as this, we should all be very much happier. Perhaps we should recommend it to Mr Speaker Bercow. The Government’s amendments have, clearly, made many technical improvements to the Bill and it is right to thank the Minister for her support of it, in principle, and to thank her and her team for the obvious hard work that has gone into those amendments.
It may be a slightly more wishy-washy shade of green than the original Bill from the hon. Member for East Surrey—I repeat my congratulations to him for bringing his Bill this far—but it is obviously a welcome step in the right direction, and it is encouraging that all parties have agreed to support this new legislation. We wish it well in its next stage.