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Lord Donoughue to ask Her Majesty's Government 

what assessment they have made of the findings by Dieter Helm, in his report Cost of Energy Review, commissioned by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, that (1) the legacy costs from the Renewables Obligation Certificates, the feed-in tariffs, and low carbon contracts for difference are a major contributor to rising final prices, and (2) energy prices should be falling, and they should go on falling into the medium and longer terms.

  HL3573

Question HL3573: tabled on 24 November 2017 and due for answer by 8 December 2017

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Lord Donoughue to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the findings by Dieter Helm, in his report Cost of Energy Review, commissioned by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, that (1) the legacy costs from the Renewables Obligation Certificates, the feed-in tariffs, and low carbon contracts for difference are a major contributor to rising final prices, and (2) energy prices should be falling, and they should go on falling into the medium and longer terms.  HL3573
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Date Answered

Thursday 30 November 2017

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Lord Donoughue
Labour
Life peer