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Draft National Policy Statement for Fossil Fuel Electricity Generating Infrastructure (EN-2)

I am very grateful to the noble Lord for doing his best to correct the extraordinary omission of any reference to port safety in this document by repeating all the arrangements that I referred to in my speech. But the truth of the matter is that he is giving me exactly the same answer as that of the noble Lord, Lord Sainsbury of Turville, some five and a half years ago; namely, that he knew little about it and would come back to me. I hope that on this occasion, unlike the noble Lord, Lord Sainsbury, the noble Lord will come back to me and to Parliament as a whole with an adequate statement of where the Government’s policy on the safety of these installations in terms of their planning arrangements in ports is going. As I said in my speeches both today and five and a half years ago, this is a black hole that has got to be filled.