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Lord Howe of Aberavon Excerpts

Thursday 24th June 2010 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Wilcox]

Yes. Evidence from the Department for Transport suggests that road casualties would be reduced, with a reduction in road deaths by around 80 per year and serious injuries by 212 per year out of a total of 3,000 and 28,000 respectively. Those are not enormous benefits, but benefits none the less.

[Lord Howe of Aberavon]

My Lords—

[Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay]

My Lords—

[Noble Lords]

Lord Howe!

[Lord Howe of Aberavon]

Does my noble friend recognise that the central European time zone extends very widely from Berlin to Madrid; that the People’s Republic of China has one time zone that stretches from east to west in its entirety; that the people of Wales and Haverfordwest can live in a time zone stretching from Greenwich to Haverfordwest; and that it should not be impossible for us all to live in a time zone stretching from Greenwich to Oban?