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Debate on Tuesday, 9 March 2010, in the House of Lords, led by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath. The answering member was Baroness Wilcox.

Energy: Draft National Policy Statement for Nuclear Power Generation (EN-6)

Lords debate on motion to consider the Draft National Policy Statement for Nuclear Power Generation (EN-6). Agreed to on question.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
718 c45-92GC 
Session
2009-10
Department
Department of Energy and Climate Change
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords Grand Committee
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Proceeding contributions
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 718 c86-7GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am very glad to continue responding to the points raised. I shall come on deal with spec...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 718 c81-2GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this has been our second debate in Grand Committee on the national policy statements. Like...
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Lord Turnbull | 718 c74GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is all a matter of scheduling. If the noble Lord tells me when it is, of course I shall...
Baroness Young of Old Scone | 718 c62-3GC (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord is right to say that there is an alternative view, but it is not one which I espouse,...
Lord Roberts of Conwy | 718 c63GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I rise simply to say that I am glad that Wylfa—
Lord Jenkin of Roding | 718 c67GC (Link to this contribution) It is the green paper produced by the Conservative Party and published on the internet, with a guida...
Lord Dixon-Smith | 718 c70-1GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the world of politics is the world of administration of society, and whatever we do will b...
Lord Turnbull | 718 c71-2GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I begin by welcoming back the prodigal daughter—the noble Baroness, Lady Young—to the nucl...
Lord Dixon-Smith | 718 c74GC (Link to this contribution) Would the noble Lord accept an invitation to take part in the Energy Bill, if we get the chance to t...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 718 c82-4GC (Link to this contribution) Among the wodge of quotations that I have, I am sure that that is the case. However, the important p...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 718 c84GC (Link to this contribution) He raises a very important point. If it were the case that the sole beneficiaries of feed-in tariffs...
Lord O'Neill of Clackmannan | 718 c63-6GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am very pleased to follow the noble Baroness, not least because she used the word "joy"....
Baroness Young of Old Scone | 718 c60-2GC (Link to this contribution) With the indulgence of the Committee, perhaps I may address that point. We have made considerable pr...
Baroness Young of Old Scone | 718 c62GC (Link to this contribution) Let me say one more sentence, as I may pre-empt what the noble Lord, Lord Jenkin, is about to say. I...
Lord Jenkin of Roding | 718 c62GC (Link to this contribution) The noble Baroness has gone to great trouble to explain her views on this. Does she recognise that t...
Lord Woolmer of Leeds | 718 c70GC (Link to this contribution) Can the noble Lord confirm whether the position of his party on the future of this process is that a...
Lord O'Neill of Clackmannan | 718 c66-7GC (Link to this contribution) I do not disagree with the noble Lord. Many of us who are both Scottish and British in our political...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 718 c45-8GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am pleased to open this debate on the Draft National Policy Statement for Nuclear Power ...
Lord Judd | 718 c60GC (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the noble Baroness for giving way. I find myself in a very similar position to hers...
Viscount Ullswater | 718 c54GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, there is a Division in the House. The Committee will adjourn for 10 minutes. Sitting susp...
Lord Chorley | 718 c53-4GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is always a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Jenkin of Roding. I find that my th...
Lord Jenkin of Roding | 718 c49-53GC (Link to this contribution) I think that the noble Lord has it entirely wrong. There was of course argument, and I took part in ...
Lord O'Neill of Clackmannan | 718 c49GC (Link to this contribution) Could the noble Lord perhaps refresh our memories by telling us what references to nuclear power the...
Lord Cope of Berkeley | 718 c57GC (Link to this contribution) That is not explained in very great detail, but if my noble friend refers to paragraph 5.12.75, he w...
Lord Chorley | 718 c54-5GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I was talking about the grid connection. Although the need for a grid connection for each ...
Baroness Young of Old Scone | 718 c88GC (Link to this contribution) I am very pleased that the spirituality of Dungeness is being focused on so much. As the Minister ha...
Lord Reay | 718 c89GC (Link to this contribution) While the noble Lord is on the subject of decommissioning, can he say anything in answer to my quest...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 718 c88GC (Link to this contribution) No, my Lords, I do not think that it does, for reasons that I referred to in relation to why the 10 ...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 718 c88GC (Link to this contribution) I am confident, for the reasons that I have said—
Lord Judd | 718 c87GC (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to my noble friend for giving way. He makes the point that you must weigh the eco...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 718 c86GC (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the noble Lord for that. The whole purpose of these debates is to understand where ...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 718 c87GC (Link to this contribution) The imperative reasons of overriding public interest case did not extend to Dungeness due to the alt...
Lord Jenkin of Roding | 718 c87GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, let us suppose that it is not 10 sites but only six sites. Does not that change the argume...
Lord Jenkin of Roding | 718 c87GC (Link to this contribution) I missed the last three words. You could not have IROPI apply—but why?
Lord Jenkin of Roding | 718 c72GC (Link to this contribution) I had exactly the same question. The answer I have been given is that the law will be changed and th...
Lord Turnbull | 718 c72-4GC (Link to this contribution) I thank the noble Lord for that clarification. We will obviously need to look, if it ever comes abou...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 718 c74GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, Second Reading is scheduled for 23 March. The noble Lord would be very welcome to take par...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 718 c84GC (Link to this contribution) That is the sort of question that one always welcomes from one’s noble friend. Perhaps I may say to ...
Baroness Young of Old Scone | 718 c63GC (Link to this contribution) I thank the noble Lord for his contribution. I am sure that he is absolutely right but the joy of th...
Lord Dixon-Smith | 718 c69-70GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I do not particularly want to get involved in the game of pots and kettles, but we need to...
Lord O'Neill of Clackmannan | 718 c67GC (Link to this contribution) I am sorry. We are talking about the green paper produced by whom?
Lord Jenkin of Roding | 718 c67GC (Link to this contribution) Staff at the IPC have seen the statements made in the green paper last month and the guidance note p...
Lord Broers | 718 c57-9GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I wish to talk about three topics: the legacy of radioactive waste, the timescale for buil...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 718 c88-9GC (Link to this contribution) I also take the point about whether putting sea defences in at Dungeness could help to deal with the...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 718 c90-2GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the position is very clear. I was going to come on to that issue, but shall deal with it n...
Lord Jenkin of Roding | 718 c88GC (Link to this contribution) I wonder whether the Minister’s noble friend might actually want to enjoy the spiritual adventure wh...
Lord Jenkin of Roding | 718 c86GC (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful for that information because it is something which I had obviously totally failed...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 718 c87GC (Link to this contribution) Yes, my Lords. The overarching NPS states that, ""the IPC should consider how the accumulation of ef...
Lord Teverson | 718 c84-5GC (Link to this contribution) I do not normally interrupt the Minister but I genuinely do not understand the basis on which the IP...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 718 c85-6GC (Link to this contribution) The national policy statement clearly sets out the need, as the Government see it and as is their du...
Lord Teverson | 718 c77-80GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, first, I apologise for not being here for all the debate—I had to present a report to the ...
Lord Reay | 718 c74-7GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, nuclear energy is coming back into its own. Nothing illustrates that more decisively than ...
Baroness Wilcox | 718 c80-1GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am advised by the Registrar of Lords’ Interests that it would be safer to declare my ass...
Lord O'Neill of Clackmannan | 718 c84GC (Link to this contribution) Before my noble friend leaves that point, will he explain how feed-in tariffs will help the poorest ...
Lord Jenkin of Roding | 718 c82GC (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to the noble Lord for giving way. Does the quotation which he has about nuclear b...
Lord Maclennan of Rogart | 718 c66GC (Link to this contribution) I offer my entire support to what the noble Lord has said so far about the place of nuclear power in...
Lord Judd | 718 c63GC (Link to this contribution) The noble Baroness has argued very powerfully about the environmental anxieties relating to Dungenes...
Lord Faulkner of Worcester | 718 c63GC (Link to this contribution) I do not think that the noble Lord has put his name down to speak in this debate, but he may of cour...
Lord O'Neill of Clackmannan | 718 c68GC (Link to this contribution) I do not want to delay the Committee, but perhaps I may make this point. It is my understanding that...
Lord O'Neill of Clackmannan | 718 c67-8GC (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord has a distinguished record of service, but—let us not get above ourselves—the Tories ...
Lord Broers | 718 c68GC (Link to this contribution) I am not pessimistic, necessarily; I like to think that I am optimistic. What I was trying to say wa...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 718 c45GC (Link to this contribution) That the Grand Committee do report to the House that it has considered the Draft National Policy Sta...
Lord Jenkin of Roding | 718 c48-9GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am sure that the Committee is grateful to the Minister for his careful introduction. It ...
Baroness Young of Old Scone | 718 c59-60GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I speak today from my background as the former chief executive of the Environment Agency, ...
Lord Reay | 718 c57GC (Link to this contribution) Can my noble friend explain why he thinks the Government have taken the strange decision of not allo...
Lord Cope of Berkeley | 718 c55-7GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have long been a supporter of nuclear power generation. When I was a Member of another p...
Subjects
Decommissioning Cumbria Environment protection Infrastructure Planning permission Planning Radioactive waste Nuclear power Nuclear power stations Training Sustainable development Waste management Research Sellafield Infrastructure Planning Commission National policy statements Oldbury power station Dungeness B power station
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