Planning Bill

The noble Lord, Lord Greaves, knows that I cannot respond to that question. I can say that my ministerial colleagues and I are anxious to see the marine Bill in Parliament as soon as possible when parliamentary time allows. I now turn to the question of onshore generating stations. My noble friend seeks to reduce the threshold from 50 megawatts to 30 megawatts and so bring more projects into the remit of the IPC. The noble Lord seeks to increase the threshold from 50 megawatts to 300 megawatts to reduce the number of projects. That suggests to me, on the government Front Bench, that we have the balance about right.