Infrastructure Planning (Radioactive Waste Geological Disposal Facilities) Order 2015

My Lords, as the Minister said, this order is simply to bring GDFs within the nationally signific...

My Lords, as a humble citizen of Cumbria, I was very reassured to hear my noble friend Lord Liddl...

My Lords, like previous speakers in this debate, I am a Cumbrian, and I declare that with pride. ...

My Lords, I am not Cumbrian and I have absolutely no connection with Cumbria—I live in Southwark—...

My Lords, I am also not from Cumbria, although I shall have the pleasure of visiting Sellafield i...

My Lords, we seem to have overlooked that regular high-level nuclear waste is being generated at ...

The noble Lord is right to say that work has previously been done and, having fairly carefully sc...

This is what I am hoping we will hear more about from the Minister when she sums up: whether that...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for introducing the order and to all noble Lords who have...

I appreciate the noble Baroness’s point about getting a debate going on radiation, but we should ...

Would the noble Lord agree, on reconsidering what he has said, that this is a matter not of decad...

It is actually a matter of millennia, if you want to put nuclear into its proper context. I do no...

My Lords, I am extremely grateful for all the contributions. As always, this issue needs greater ...

I think that I talked about—I hope that I did, anyway—what is commonly referred to as the nuclear...

I hope that I may be allowed to intervene in support of the noble Lord, Lord Liddle. It is indeed...

My Lords, I reiterate that it is important that the usage of language informs the debate. Whereve...

The UK nuclear industry is UK-wide. My noble friend fairly described the scope of this order and ...

I re-emphasise that planning remains a devolved issue for those devolved areas.

My noble fr...

If I may say so, the Minister knows very well that this is not the first time she has given me su...

My Lords, as the noble Lord is aware, discussions on these issues are always ongoing. We are alwa...

I am talking not about devolved authorities but about the Government of Ireland.

My Lords, as I said, those discussions are always ongoing and I will broaden them out to all devo...

My Lords—

If I may just finish my point, I will happily give way. We need to look carefully at why an issue...

Will the Minister reassure us that, as part of these discussions, consideration will be given to ...

My Lords, as with all these things, we are talking about thousands of years. I am sure that as te...

I hope that there is nothing in the order that precludes the decision being made including whatev...

My Lords, having obviously not satisfied noble Lords, if I undertake to write to them, that might...

I thank the noble Baroness for her comprehensive reply to the debate. However, I seek clarificati...

My Lords, given that there is no inspiration floating from behind me, I undertake to put my respo...