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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 17 Sep 2025
Planning and Infrastructure Bill

"My Lords, I am very grateful to the Minister for her summing up and the extra information that she provided, particularly the important clarity around NSIPs and Part 3. However, we have not yet got away from the central issue of how useful Part 3 is going to be for …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 17 Sep 2025
Planning and Infrastructure Bill

"Very briefly, I follow on from the point of the noble Lord, Lord Hunt of Kings Heath. I raised the point he just made in a question a week or so back. That is a really important point: to try and join the dots between the work ongoing with the …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 17 Sep 2025
Planning and Infrastructure Bill

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 17 Sep 2025
Planning and Infrastructure Bill

"My Lords, I declare my interests as a chief engineer working for AtkinsRéalis, and as co-chair of Legislators for Nuclear. This group of amendments gets to the heart of some of the issues with this Bill. It is important that we get Britain building again, not least to reverse the …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 10 Sep 2025
Nuclear Regulatory System

"My Lords, I declare my interest as a chief engineer working for AtkinsRéalis. The report rightly mentions the planning system environmental regulations, as the Minister said, as a barrier to the nuclear rollout. Of course, we have a legislative vehicle for any changes going through your Lordships’ House at the …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 09 Sep 2025
Planning and Infrastructure Bill

"My Lords, I declare my interests as a chief engineer working for AtkinsRéalis and as a director of Peers for the Planet. I thank my supporters on Amendment 127, the noble Lords, Lord Krebs and Lord Hunt of Kings Heath. I am very pleased to bring back this amendment, which …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 09 Sep 2025
Planning and Infrastructure Bill

"I appreciate the Minister’s response and that he has highlighted a number of areas of planning policy where this is mentioned. But the point I was trying to make was that there is no central duty that is tying all those areas of policy together into a framework and having …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 01 Sep 2025
Planning and Infrastructure Bill

"My Lords, I speak to Amendment 177 in my name and declare my interests as a chief engineer working for AtkinsRéalis and as a director of Peers for the Planet. I thank the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, for his support for the amendment.

I start by saying that I completely …..."

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 01 Sep 2025
Planning and Infrastructure Bill

"I want to complement what the noble Earl just said. A couple of years back, when I raised this as part of the Energy Act 2023, I remember being given a similar response: this was still being considered by the Government as part of how it would fit into the …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 22 Jul 2025
Great British Energy: Nuclear Development

"My Lords, I declare my interest as a chief engineer working for AtkinsRéalis. I congratulate the Government on the Sizewell C announcement, which is fantastic news for the UK nuclear industry. But, alongside that, the Government need to consider enablers for nuclear, including a secure source of nuclear fuel. Can …..."
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