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HANSARDCivil Nuclear Road MapMy Lords, the road map makes frequent reference to high-temperature gas-cooled reactors. An indigenous project to build such a reactor, called U-Battery, was shelved due to a lack…15 Jan 2024HANSARDUniversities: Nuclear Energy Sector SkillsMy Lords, I understand that a memorandum of understanding has been signed with the United Arab Emirates to provide it with nuclear technology; if we do not provide it with that…07 Dec 2023HANSARDUniversities: Nuclear Energy Sector SkillsMy Lords—07 Dec 2023HANSARDAutumn Statement 2023My Lords, I was deeply perplexed when I listened to the monarch’s speech at the opening of Parliament and, equally, to the budgetary speech of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The…29 Nov 2023HANSARDKing’s SpeechMy Lords, I will talk about nuclear technology. The Government must sustain the nuclear industry by ensuring that a sufficient number of nuclear power plants are built to maintain…14 Nov 2023HANSARDNuclear EnergyBritain is experiencing an energy crisis. Despite its commitment to staunch the emissions of carbon dioxide, it remains heavily reliant on fossil fuels to power its industries…07 Sept 2023HANSARDLeasehold Properties: Managing AgentsIs the Minister not aware that freeholders are frequently motivated to consolidate the ownership of their properties by driving the leaseholders into unsustainable debt, by dint…17 Jul 2023HANSARDUK Economy: Growth, Inflation and ProductivityBritain has a lower rate of economic growth than—and its per capita income compares poorly with—many of its European neighbours and others further afield. Questions must be asked…29 Jun 2023HANSARDScience and Technology Superpower (Science and Technology Committee Report)I express my appreciation to the staff and the leadership of the committee. British science is in a parlous state. We are in the process of crippling our academic institutions,…07 Jun 2023HANSARDHigher Education: Financial PressuresMy Lords, I intend to talk about the internal consequences for universities of their financial crises. The number of universities running financial deficits has increased in…30 Mar 2023HANSARDLeasehold ReformMy Lords, the Minister will be aware that freeholders have been empowered to impose the costs of any litigation that has been initiated by an aggrieved leaseholder upon that…23 Mar 2023HANSARDSecondary Legislation Scrutiny CommitteeMy Lords, I will interpolate a few comments in support of the amendment moved by the noble Lord, Lord Hodgson. This amendment is not, as some are still supposing, a plea to…31 Jan 2023HANSARDDemocracy Denied (DPRRC Report)My Lords, I declare an interest as a member of the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee. The traditional way of ensuring that the executive powers are responsible for their…12 Jan 2023HANSARDResidential LeaseholdersThe Minister will be aware that the property companies that own freeholds are able to impose on leaseholders any legal costs that might arise from a leaseholder’s appeal to a…12 Jan 2023HANSARDElectricity: DecarbonisationHave the Government thought further about small modular nuclear reactors, which could come online much sooner than the EPR nuclear reactor proposed for Sizewell? Moreover, SMRs…21 Dec 2022HANSARDBattery Strategy (Science and Technology Committee Report)In one sense, there is very little that needs to be said about the conclusions of the report of the Science and Technology Committee regarding the future of the industries in the…23 Nov 2022HANSARDHousing MarketMargaret Thatcher had a vision of a property-owning democracy, in which citizens should own the dwellings they occupy. In 1980, the Conservatives’ Housing Act gave council tenants…17 Nov 2022HANSARDHousing: Leasehold PropertiesIt is a clear issue and I will give the Minister instances of its occurrence.17 Oct 2022HANSARDHousing: Leasehold PropertiesSome of the companies issue contracts in which the small print declares that their leaseholders will be liable for any costs that the companies might incur if they are called…17 Oct 2022HANSARDEnergy Bill [HL]I wish to express my support for Amendments 39 and 49. I have been looking for a place to make my interjection, which ought to have been encapsulated in an amendment, but perhaps…07 Sept 2022