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Weightman Report

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

727 c1385-94 

Session

2010-12

Department

Department of Energy and Climate Change

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber

Proceeding contributions

Lord Marland | 727 c1385-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, with the leave of the House, I shall now repeat the response that my right honourable frie...

Baroness Smith of Basildon | 727 c1386-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble Lord for repeating the Statement. I was disappointed to learn that, unti...

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Lord Marland | 727 c1389 (Link to this contribution) Obviously, my colleagues behind me feel I am saying the right things. Of course, safety was paramoun...

Lord Marland | 727 c1389 (Link to this contribution) We owe a great debt to the noble Lord, Lord Lawson, as one of the founders of the nuclear industry i...

Lord Marland | 727 c1388 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Baroness has made some excellent points and I should like to tackle them head on...

Lord Lawson of Blaby | 727 c1388-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, perhaps I may say how much I endorse both Dr Weightman’s report and my noble friend’s stat...

Lord Jenkin of Roding | 727 c1393 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I join my noble friend in thanking Dr Weightman for what has been, in an astonishingly sho...

Lord Marland | 727 c1393-4 (Link to this contribution) I add my comments to those of the noble Lord, Lord Jenkin of Roding, about the role of the Chief Sci...

Lord Marland | 727 c1393 (Link to this contribution) The Weightman report does not go into great detail about reprocessing. As the noble Lord knows, that...

Lord Hennessy of Nympsfield | 727 c1394 (Link to this contribution) In the light of the interim Weightman report, can the Minister give the Government’s latest assessme...

Lord Marland | 727 c1394 (Link to this contribution) There is no energy gap at the moment. If there is an energy gap we will look at it and try to deal w...

Lord Oxburgh | 727 c1389-90 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have a little familiarity with the Fukushima event but I have not yet had the privilege ...

Lord Marland | 727 c1390 (Link to this contribution) As always, we have had an object lesson in nuclear science from someone who really understands it. I...

Lord Hunt of Chesterton | 727 c1390-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I welcome both this report, which is wide-ranging and international in its scope, and the ...

Lord Marland | 727 c1391 (Link to this contribution) I, of course, do not like people asking questions, so I am happy for them to go on for a very long t...

Bishop of Bath and Wells | 727 c1391 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, is the Minister aware that in 1706, following an earthquake off the south coast of Ireland...

Lord Marland | 727 c1392 (Link to this contribution) I am also aware that a few years later, in 1755, there was the horrendous Lisbon earthquake, which c...

Lord Teverson | 727 c1392 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I welcome very much the fact that this report has been produced so quickly on behalf of th...

Lord Marland | 727 c1392-3 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Teverson, who is a recent convert to nuclear, which is extreme...

Lord Campbell-Savours | 727 c1393 (Link to this contribution) Has the Minister been given any briefing at this stage on the implications of what has happened in J...

Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 727 c1391 (Link to this contribution) I remind noble Lords that it is very important to be brief in the questions that they put to the Min...

Subjects

Construction Accidents Japan Nuclear power stations Location Regulation Safety Earthquakes Tsunami Office for Nuclear Regulation

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