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HANSARDDraft Transfrontier Shipment of Radioactive Waste and spent fuel (EU Exit) Regulations 2018It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir David. I will leave it at that, because I am concerned about the spread of so-called “pleasure creep”, where one has to put…22 Jan 2019HANSARDDraft Transfrontier Shipment of Radioactive Waste and spent fuel (EU Exit) Regulations 2018That is good. My observation—I think I am still under five minutes—is that the cost could be mitigated were we to make some kind of associate arrangement with Euratom in the…22 Jan 2019HANSARD Nuclear UpdateI thank the Secretary of State for his statement, but he must recognise that the Government’s new nuclear strategy, adopted by the Conservatives and spearheaded by their Liberal…17 Jan 2019HANSARDDraft Justification Decision Power (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Henry. It will be a pretty brief pleasure today, because my understanding is that the draft regulations are simply a device…16 Jan 2019HANSARDDraft Nuclear Safeguards (EU Exit) Regulations 2018I thank the Minister for that information. It may well be the case that there will be a period of parallel running during a transitional period. After all, the regulations are…15 Jan 2019HANSARDDraft Nuclear Safeguards (EU Exit) Regulations 2018The second part of the question before us is the position of the ONR in this matter. As I am sure hon. Members will know, the ONR has a large number of functions. The nuclear…15 Jan 2019HANSARDDraft Nuclear Safeguards (EU Exit) Regulations 2018I knew I would get support for that. This statutory instrument is really about two things: first, getting in place the regulations that will govern the process of nuclear…15 Jan 2019HANSARDDraft Nuclear Safeguards (EU Exit) Regulations 2018It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship for the second day running, Mr Sharma. As the Minister says, clearly your presence instilled in me a modicum of brevity, which I…15 Jan 2019HANSARDDraft Nuclear Safeguards (Fissionable Material and Relevant International Agreements) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Sharma. It is sort of a pleasure to continue with our most cordial debate about the process of nuclear safeguards as they…14 Jan 2019HANSARDDraft Nuclear Safeguards (Fissionable Material and Relevant International Agreements) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018Yes, I fully concur with the hon. Gentleman’s point; in overall terms, what was said would be done, has been done. I appreciate that it was quite a difficult effort to get that…14 Jan 2019HANSARDDraft Nuclear Safeguards (Fissionable Material and Relevent International Agreements) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018Yes, I fully concur with the hon. Gentleman’s point; in overall terms, what was said would be done, has been done. I appreciate that it was quite a difficult effort to get that…14 Jan 2019HANSARDDraft Energy Efficiency (Private Rented Property) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2018It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Davies. The Minister has given a customarily comprehensive exposition of the draft regulations and of what the Government…14 Jan 2019HANSARDDraft Energy Efficiency (Private Rented Property) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2018I take the Minister’s point, but it was widely thought that Harper Lee’s second novel was substantially inferior to the original, to which I cast my mind this afternoon. There are…14 Jan 2019HANSARDDraft Energy Efficiency (Private Rented Property) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2018Will the Minister clarify the distinction between the majority not supporting the £5,000 and those people in the consultation who supported the £2,500? If I add together those who…14 Jan 2019HANSARDDraft Nuclear Safeguards (Fissionable Material and Relevent International Agreements) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Sharma. It is sort of a pleasure to continue with our most cordial debate about the process of nuclear safeguards as they…14 Jan 2019HANSARDRenewable EnergyThe Minister will be aware that the recent EU Court judgment, which effectively freezes the capacity market in the UK, turned substantially on the lack of level playing field…08 Jan 2019