Secondly, there are aspects of the Bill which are intended to enable the Government to deal adequately with a Domestic Energy Crisis.

The Opposition have talked of numerous supposed crises in recent years: we were apparently cutting too far, too fast; then we had the double-dip recession that now, it seems, never took place; then the Domestic Energy Crisis; and finally we had the cost-of-living crisis, whereas, as we know, real incomes are now moving ahead, while inflation is at a generational low.