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Daylight Saving Bill

Proceeding contribution from Tobias Ellwood (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Friday, 3 December 2010. It occurred during Debate on bills on Daylight Saving Bill.
I am grateful for that clarification. A time change would bring huge benefits for business and overseas trade. As part of my work as the shadow Tourism Minister I spent some time in Scotland and it was interesting to meet Scottish business people, who were very keen to have an alignment of timing. Currently, 62% of our exports and 50% of imports are within Europe. When we go to work, the Europeans have already been at work for an hour, we break for lunch at different times so two hours are lost there and then we lose another hour in the evening. Four hours a day are lost because of the failure to align our times. One might say that that is where the idea of Berlin time came from. Let me say a word about Mr Peter Hitchens.
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
519 c1122 
Session
2010-12
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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