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  Energy Bill - Schedule 2 - Investment Contracts - Withholding Material from Parliament
  
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  @ MP voted no to reject a proposal to limit material omitted from contracts under which subsidies are paid to electricity generators when they are put before Parliament to just trade secrets, preferring instead that any information the contract itself says must not be disclosed be omitted.
  
  @ MP voted aye  to limit material omitted from contracts under which subsidies are paid to electricity generators when they are put before Parliament to just trade secrets, rather than requiring any information the contract itself says must not be disclosed be omitted.
  
  The majority of MPs rejected a proposal to limit material omitted from contracts under which subsidies are paid to electricity generators when they are put before Parliament to just trade secrets, preferring instead that any information the contract itself says must not be disclosed be omitted.
  
  MPs were considering the Energy Bill[1].
  
  The text of the rejected amendment was:
  
  :amendment: 9, page 108, line 24, at end insertâ
  
  :â( ) For the purposes of paragraphs 1 and 2, information is âconfidential informationâ only if it constitutes a trade secret.â.
  
  MPs voted on the question:
  
  :That the amendment be made.
  
  This relates to investment contracts under which subsidies are paid to electricity generators  which the Secretary of State is required to lay before Parliament; without the amendment the Secretary of State would be required to omit information the contract itself said must not be disclosed, the amendment would have reduced the amount of information withheld from Parliament. 
  
  
  * [1] [http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2013-14/energy.html Parliament's webpage on the Energy Bill (Now the Energy Act 2013]
  * [2] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2013-2014/0004/amend/pbc0040306m.201-207.html Amendment sheet for consideration of the Energy Bill on 3 Jun 2013]
  * [3] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2013-2014/0004/2014004.103-109.html#j451s  Schedule 2 of the Energy Bill as it stood on the 9th of May 2013]
  
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