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Planning Bill

We have had a full discussion about major infrastructure projects in a limited number of fields: gas, carbon dioxide and thresholds for wind farms. My noble friend Lord Jenkin got into some nuclear waste amendments. We have other waste amendments to consider later that do not cover that issue but which would have been the point at which I raised the question of nuclear waste. Finally, we had the debut of the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, on this subject. He has dealt with our and the Government’s amendments in great detail and we will have to study with immense care what he has said. I think that we have the answers that we want, although he raised a number of questions in his remarks that we will need to think about. However, he has been enormously helpful. We have certainly got explanations on the main points of our concern. For that, I am immensely grateful and I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.