EU: Trade and Security Partnership

Debate between Lord West of Spithead and Lord Duncan of Springbank

Tuesday 9th June 2020 Lords Chamber

[The Deputy Speaker (Lord Duncan of Springbank) (Con)]

Lord Kerr of Kinlochard? No? Lord West of Spithead.

[Lord West of Spithead (Lab) [V]]

My Lords, a lightning rod for EU seriousness on defence and security co-operation is Project Galileo. Is it still the intention to have scientific, technological and industrial UK involvement in this project, despite lack of access to the classified output of the system?

Fracking

Debate between Lord West of Spithead and Lord Duncan of Springbank

Thursday 9th January 2020 Lords Chamber

[Lord Duncan of Springbank]

It is a question that I cannot answer, because at present there are no fracking sites in the United Kingdom that are in any way functional. The question of how we invest in local communities has already been realised by the onshore wind sector; we have seen significant benefit to local communities through investment in those communities by companies that have located their wind farms there.

[Lord West of Spithead (Lab)]

My Lords, does the Minister agree that there is a strategic benefit in being able to produce gas ourselves? At the moment we see that Germany, for example, is in a very poor position, because she is reliant on gas from Russia. It puts her in a poor strategic position.