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HANSARD Small Modular ReactorsI congratulate the hon. Member for Copeland (Trudy Harrison) once again on securing this important debate. I want to concentrate on the wording of the motion, because we are…20 Feb 2019HANSARD Small Modular ReactorsWill the Minister clarify what is being spent at the moment on supporting small modular nuclear reactors, and how that will support the development of cheaper and more effective…20 Feb 2019HANSARDDraft Shipments of Radioactive Substances (EU Exit) Regulations 2019It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Gray. The Minister may correct me if I am wrong, but I think the draft regulations are pretty much the last of the various…18 Feb 2019HANSARDDraft Shipments of Radioactive Substances (EU Exit) Regulations 2019Just to clarify, that has always been my understanding. It is a question of what goes into the three-monthly declarations from the EU about all transport—unsealed and sealed. That…18 Feb 2019HANSARDDraft Shipments of Radioactive Substances (EU Exit) Regulations 2019Indeed. It would be remiss of me not to welcome the fact that we have now got to the final point, and therefore today we do not want to stand in the way of the regulations…18 Feb 2019HANSARDDraft Shipments of Radioactive Substances (EU Exit) Regulations 2019There is the small matter of chasing an agreement with Japan, but that is a different matter.18 Feb 2019HANSARDDraft Shipments of Radioactive Substances (EU Exit) Regulations 2019indicated assent.18 Feb 2019HANSARDDraft Ecodesign for Energy-Related Products and Energy Information (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Paisley. I note that you can get from one end of the Committee corridor to the other far more quickly than I can. That is…11 Feb 2019HANSARDDraft Storage of Carbon Dioxide (Amendment and Power to Modify) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018I suppose that I could be a little curmudgeonly by saying that it would be rather nice if we had some carbon capture and storage to put into those regulations. We do not at the…28 Jan 2019HANSARDDraft Carriage of Dangerous Goods (Amendment) Regulations 2019It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Bailey. I have to notify the Committee that the credit that I might have had for speaking briefly should be applied to my…28 Jan 2019HANSARDDraft Carriage of Dangerous Goods (Amendment) Regulations 2019The citation and commencement of the regulations that we passed last week stated that they will come into force on exit day, whenever that is. Although that is when the SI will…28 Jan 2019HANSARDDraft Carriage of Dangerous Goods (Amendment) Regulations 2019I thank the Minister for that offer; I am sure I will take it up. Thank you, too, Mr Bailey, for your guidance on whether we could proceed. I thought we probably could.…28 Jan 2019HANSARDDraft Carriage of Dangerous Goods (Amendment) Regulations 2019I have given my speaking notes to Hansard , so I have to do this from memory, but does the Minister consider that the regulations as they stand give effect to what is in the IAEA…28 Jan 2019HANSARDDraft Carriage of Dangerous Goods (Amendment) Regulations 2019I have not yet come to the substance of what I am going to say, but I will give way.28 Jan 2019HANSARDDraft Carriage of Dangerous Goods (Amendment) Regulations 2019I thank the Minister. I personally take the view that we are all in this room together making this legislation and we all have an equal responsibility for making sure that it…28 Jan 2019HANSARDDraft Storage of Carbon Dioxide (Amendment and Power to Modify) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018Sorry, with the Government Front Bench—the Minister usually has a closer relationship with the Opposition Front Bench. That does not mean, of course, that we shall be particularly…28 Jan 2019HANSARDDraft Storage of Carbon Dioxide (Amendment and Power to Modify) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Bone. I cannot resist commenting on the interesting circumstances: with the extension of SIs, we are going into different…28 Jan 2019HANSARDDraft Carriage of Dangerous Goods (Amendment) Regulations 2019I thank the Minister for that point. I think I have voiced my concerns in the best way I can, so perhaps we should move on to discuss the rest of the SI. My other substantive…28 Jan 2019HANSARDDraft Transfrontier Shipment of Radioactive Waste and spent fuel (EU Exit) Regulations 2018I thank the Minister for that. My final brief point follows from the one the Minister made about the total cost of these arrangements, which is indeed very modest: as he has said,…22 Jan 2019HANSARDDraft Transfrontier Shipment of Radioactive Waste and spent fuel (EU Exit) Regulations 2018I thank the Minister for that. That is exactly what I had anticipated he would say, and I am grateful that he was able to say it. The second issue relates to the quantity and…22 Jan 2019