division_name: Energy Bill [Lords] &#8212; Clause 79 &#8212; Onshore wind power: closure of renewables obligation on 31 March 2016
motion: <p class="italic" pid="b.690.2/1" pwmotiontext="yes">Amendment proposed: 24,&#160;page&#160;46,&#160;line&#160;20, leave out &#8220;<phrase class="date" code="2016-03-31" pwmotiontext="yes">31 March 2016</phrase>&#8221; and insert &#8220;<phrase class="date" code="2017-03-01" pwmotiontext="yes">1 March 2017</phrase>&#8221;.&#8212; (Dr Whitehead.)</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="b.690.2/2" pwmotiontext="yes">This amendment and amendments 25, 26, 40, 41, 42, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38 and 39 have the effect of closing the Renewables Obligation for onshore wind a month earlier than the original date set out in the Statutory Instrument: Renewables Obligation Closure Order 2014: 2388, rather than a year earlier, as the Bill does in its present form.</p>
  
  <p pid="b.690.2/3" pwmotiontext="yes"><i>Question put,</i> That the amendment be made.</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="b.690.2/4" pwmotiontext="yes">The House divided:</p>
  
  <p pid="b.690.2/5" pwmotiontext="yes">Ayes 183, Noes 270.</p>