Irish Border: Checks and Customs Arrangements
Debate between Lord Wigley and Lord Duncan of Springbank(5 years, 1 month ago)
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Lord Wigley (PC)
My Lords, is it the Government’s intention that goods coming from the Republic of Ireland to the United Kingdom via Holyhead will be subject to exactly the same sort of border controls as those in Northern Ireland, or is Northern Ireland being treated differently from the rest of the United Kingdom?
Lord Duncan of Springbank
It is not the intention of this Government to have Northern Ireland treated any differently from any other part of this, our United Kingdom.
Nuclear Power Stations
Debate between Lord Wigley and Lord Duncan of Springbank(5 years, 2 months ago)
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Lord Duncan of Springbank
The noble Baroness asks a simple question which will get a complicated answer in response. A number of changes must take place in greening and reducing our emissions, not least within our domestic environment. We need to move away from the gas in our homes and the hydrocarbons in our cars, and we need to do that in the short term. We need a new strategy which will address the culture. This is not just about what government can do; it has to be about what individual households can do, recognising the cost of each change. We have a strategy, which is available on our website.
Lord Wigley (PC)
My Lords, the noble Lord mentioned pumped hydro. He will be aware of the role played by the Dinorwig scheme, which in its day was the largest in the world, although it is not quite that now. Are there more such schemes, and are they geared to the two-lake solution or to estuarial pumping, back up the valleys from where the rivers came?
Lord Duncan of Springbank
The noble Lord is right to rejoice in the success that Wales has had in pumped storage. There are moves afoot on the part of a number of companies to expand existing hydro plants. The future is of course dependent on how we can mitigate some of the costs involved in such large-scale projects, but they will fit into both categories if we can find the right balance of incentive to encourage these sorts of developments.