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Lighter Evenings (Experiment) Bill [HL]

I, too, support this amendment. It would be ridiculous and inconvenient to have different time zones between England and Scotland or any other parts of the United Kingdom. As one who lived in the north of Scotland, in north-east Aberdeenshire, through the experimental period back in the 1970s, I can confirm what the noble Lord, Lord De Mauley, has just said. It was quite intolerable; I was driving my children to school in the dark and picking them up again in the dark, because we had such a short period of daylight in the middle of winter. You will never get the Scots, and certainly not the northern Scots, to agree to the changes that the noble Lord, Lord Tanlaw, proposes. I strongly support the amendment.