Given that the Energy Bill addresses key issues surrounding energy policy including security of supply, climate change and the effects of pricing, it is bound to excite as much debate when it goes to the Lords as it did in the Commons.
At second reading in the Commons those measures in the Bill related to civil nuclear energy were a recurring theme. Speakers in favour of getting the nuclear programme restarted largely based their arguments on energy security and the need for a relia…
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