Daylight Saving Debate

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Department: Department for Transport

Daylight Saving

Lord Berkeley Excerpts
Wednesday 22nd May 2013

(11 years, 5 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Berkeley Portrait Lord Berkeley
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My Lords, taking into account the value of a human life, which I think the department uses in looking at accidents, I calculate that on the noble Earl’s figures the saving would be in the order of £5 billion. He was much vaguer about the economic downsides. Will he explain more about the economic disadvantages of this change?

Earl Attlee Portrait Earl Attlee
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My Lords, the noble Lord is quite right: there are serious disadvantages. In the aviation industry, for instance, in the long term it would be positive. However, it would take three years to adapt to the time change, and the aviation industry would need five years’ notice of the change. In addition, it would need another three years if we wanted to go back.