Speeches by Chope.

“I was just going to say to the Minister that when she goes to Bournemouth tomorrow to see the Local Government Association she might take a look at the cliff erosion in Bournemouth, the costs of repair of which seem to be beyond the means of the BCP Council, which includes Christchurch. Is that not an example of where …”

“Thank you very much indeed, and I hope you are going to get a different nameplate.”

“It is 500 pages plus.”

“The response will come from the Government.”

“Your Secretary of State was asked specifically questions yesterday about whether he would be adopting the Climate Change Committee’s “A Well-Adapted UK” recommendations and investment plans in full, and all we received was a cop-out as a response from the Secretary of State. He said that is obviously a matter for discu…”

“If we are going to invest in both of those, the Climate Change Committee says that we need to invest a large sum of money, probably £11 billion a year until the 2050s, in adaptation. That is a very strong recommendation, and they say that is probably an underestimate of what is needed. Are the Government committed to p…”

“I was just going to say to the Minister that when she goes to Bournemouth tomorrow to see the Local Government Association she might take a look at the cliff erosion in Bournemouth, the costs of repair of which seem to be beyond the means of the BCP Council, which includes Christchurch. Is that not an example of where …”

“Thank you, Chairman. There is a lot of jargon around this subject matter and so I want to see if what I say is a correct analysis. NESO pays generators to increase or reduce output, and then it passes the costs on to consumers in what is called balance payments. Those balance payments that consumers are paying for are …”

“That is about £50 on average. We heard that on the first panel. You say that it is a relatively small cost, but that cost will increase perhaps six or sevenfold by the next three or four years. What we are trying to do, collectively as a Committee, is to ensure that the Government’s commitment to reduce household energ…”

“There is no incentive at the moment, is there, for a windfarm generator to install batteries to store the energy when that is not being used on the grid? Collectively, we are paying for that energy, even when it is not being used, so there is no incentive. Similarly, there is no incentive for the generators to export t…”

“You are part of the Government.”

“That is not quite an answer. That is not quite a denial of the allegation made by this whistleblower, which was referred to in the House of Commons yesterday by my colleague.”

“Are they wholly transparent? Do you try to promote transparency in those decisions?”

“What can be done to resolve that problem?”

“Thank you very much indeed, and I hope you are going to get a different nameplate.”

“Minister, earlier in your evidence you were talking about setting up this new climate security taskforce. What is its remit and scope for action?”

“Where the Climate Change Committee makes recommendations, what is the Government’s approach to those recommendations? Obviously taxpayers’ money is being used to fund the Climate Change Committee. Its remit is to advise the Government. It has given specific advice to the Government saying they are failing on adaptation…”

“It is 500 pages plus.”

“Your Secretary of State was asked specifically questions yesterday about whether he would be adopting the Climate Change Committee’s “A Well-Adapted UK” recommendations and investment plans in full, and all we received was a cop-out as a response from the Secretary of State. He said that is obviously a matter for discu…”

“That is a very significant burden on ordinary household electricity bills. What I cannot understand is why households are having to pay—through NESO—windfarm generators for energy that is not being used on the grid. Surely, if you are producing a product for which no purchaser exists, that product should not be subsidi…”