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Ministerial statement on Wednesday, 25 October 2006, in the House of Commons, led by David Miliband. The answering member was Peter Ainsworth.

Radioactive Waste Management Report

Statement on the report of the Committee on Radioactive Waste management (CoRWM) published on 31 July 2006 (Managing our radioactive waste safely: CoRWM's recommendations to Government). (http://www.corwm.org.uk)

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
450 c1519-34 
Session
2005-06
Department
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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Nirex
Thursday, 30 November 2006
Written statements
House of Commons
Proceeding contributions
David Miliband | 450 c1530-1 (Link to this contribution) For obvious reasons, we do not have widespread discussion of the counter-terrorism measures that we ...
Patrick Mercer | 450 c1530 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Secretary of State’s emphasis on both safety and security in his statement, but I was ...
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Michael Clapham | 450 c1531 (Link to this contribution) I heard what my right hon. Friend had to say about the CoRWM report in relation to new waste from a ...
David Miliband | 450 c1531 (Link to this contribution) I acknowledge my hon. Friend’s long-term interest in the issue. It has certainly been the case that ...
Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 450 c1531 (Link to this contribution) As the Member of Parliament for Nirex—
David Miliband | 450 c1531-2 (Link to this contribution) I wish to correct the hon. Gentleman on one point. The fundamental issue that has weighed with me an...
Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 450 c1531 (Link to this contribution) To say that Nirex is based in my constituency might be a better way to put it. I hope that the Secre...
David Miliband | 450 c1534 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman calls that nonsense, but if he thinks that regulating two organisations with over...
David Miliband | 450 c1532 (Link to this contribution) I do not know whether the hon. Gentleman is referring to new build, because we have made it clear th...
Robert Goodwill | 450 c1532 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Secretary of State on facing up to this vexed issue, and not before time. In term...
David Miliband | 450 c1532 (Link to this contribution) On the first question, the CoRWM report addressed the issue of retrievability in some depth. I do no...
David Chaytor | 450 c1532 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend confirm that the design of any repository will ensure that the waste is in...
David Miliband | 450 c1534 (Link to this contribution) The simple answer is that having two organisations with overlapping responsibilities would blur prec...
Sion Simon | 450 c1534 (Link to this contribution) I share the admiration expressed already for the courage shown by my right hon. Friend, but despite ...
David Miliband | 450 c1533 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend speaks on this issue with considerable expertise, and I completely agree with him—I w...
John Robertson | 450 c1532-3 (Link to this contribution) May I, too, congratulate my right hon. Friend on his statement today? I wish to register an interest...
David Miliband | 450 c1530 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure whether that is a reference to me or to the mineshafts—but in any case my hon. Friend’...
Paddy Tipping | 450 c1530 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend make it clear that, despite claims by one environmental non-governmental o...
David Miliband | 450 c1530 (Link to this contribution) I would not want to compete with my hon. Friend on his geological knowledge of the Nottinghamshire c...
David Miliband | 450 c1530 (Link to this contribution) I am not aware of Sedgemoor district council’s approach to the NDA, but it is welcome in the context...
David Heathcoat-Amory | 450 c1530 (Link to this contribution) Governments of all kinds have moved with geological speed on this issue over many decades, so I welc...
Andrew Miller | 450 c1529 (Link to this contribution) Surely Nirex’s work in identifying suitable geological areas is still valid today, unless my right h...
David Miliband | 450 c1529 (Link to this contribution) I shall have to write to the right hon. Gentleman about the national parks, but I can say that I am ...
David Miliband | 450 c1519-21 (Link to this contribution) With your permission, Mr. Speaker, I would like to make a statement on the report of the Committee o...
Peter Ainsworth | 450 c1521-3 (Link to this contribution) I begin by thanking the Secretary of State for his statement, and for letting me have prior notice o...
David Miliband | 450 c1526 (Link to this contribution) Obviously, it is in no one’s interest that a community with completely unsuitable geological foundat...
Michael Jack | 450 c1526 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Secretary of State’s statement because it addresses not only the issue of legacy waste...
David Miliband | 450 c1525-6 (Link to this contribution) I completely agree with my hon. Friend that we must retain public confidence. The conflict of intere...
Lord Watson of Wyre Forest | 450 c1525 (Link to this contribution) I admire my right hon. Friend’s courage in finally getting to grips with the legacy of our radioacti...
David Miliband | 450 c1524-5 (Link to this contribution) In contrast to the official Opposition’s spokesman, the Liberal Democrat spokesman has distinguished...
Chris Huhne | 450 c1523-4 (Link to this contribution) We on the Liberal Democrat Benches welcome the commitment to deep geological disposal as the least b...
David Miliband | 450 c1523 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for the serious tenor of his remarks and the engaged way in which he has ...
Jamie Reed | 450 c1526 (Link to this contribution) As the Member of Parliament whose constituency currently houses all the nation’s low-level waste, 70...
Iain Duncan Smith | 450 c1527 (Link to this contribution) I join my colleagues in thanking the Secretary of State for his statement. May I return him to the c...
David Miliband | 450 c1527 (Link to this contribution) I want to respond positively to that question. Of course, any Government must make up for errors, dr...
David Miliband | 450 c1527 (Link to this contribution) I think that I am right in saying that one of the two resignations from the committee occurred not b...
Alan Simpson | 450 c1527 (Link to this contribution) I am somewhat surprised that there has been no mention of the controversy in CoRWM itself. An all-pa...
David Miliband | 450 c1528 (Link to this contribution) The ball is not in the scientists’ court; it is in the community’s court, and the first move must co...
Mike Weir | 450 c1527-8 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State has said that the new process will be completely divorced from the old Nirex ...
David Miliband | 450 c1528 (Link to this contribution) I consider it essential for the process to be driven by the national interest and by a public body. ...
David Drew | 450 c1528 (Link to this contribution) As the Secretary of State knows, his statement was made against the background of the sale of Britis...
Robert Key | 450 c1528 (Link to this contribution) Following the excellent CoRWM report and his welcome statement, will the Secretary of State be sure ...
David Miliband | 450 c1529 (Link to this contribution) Dirigiste, as the hon. Gentleman says.
David Miliband | 450 c1528 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has made an important point, and he is absolutely right. Anyone who reads the CoR...
David Miliband | 450 c1529 (Link to this contribution) Someone referred earlier to a veto power—a power for a community to refuse to accept a disposal faci...
Lord Beith | 450 c1529 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State mentioned societal considerations. Does that include recognition that the pur...
Lord Whitehead | 450 c1529 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend intend the reconstituted CoRWM to undertake a separate assessment of the d...
David Miliband | 450 c1529 (Link to this contribution) The CoRWM report deals with that question. It says that on technical grounds there is no requirement...
David Miliband | 450 c1529-30 (Link to this contribution) I shall not cast aspersions on work that has been done by Nirex, because that would not be right. Ov...
David Miliband | 450 c1526 (Link to this contribution) As I hope I made clear in my statement, the jewel in the Nirex crown is its staff and their skill, c...
Subjects
Local government Radioactive waste Nuclear Decommissioning Authority Storage Waste management United Kingdom NIREX Waste disposal Committee on Radioactive Waste Management Geology
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