Nuclear Safeguards Bill

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 2, 12 and 16, which are in my name in this group. We had a ...

My Lords, I shall refer to the amendments tabled by the noble Baroness, Lady Featherstone, and th...

I thank the noble Viscount for letting me intervene, but I honestly do not understand that. If Eu...

Euratom is certainly approved by the IAEA as having adequate standards. My point is that Euratom ...

Will the noble Viscount give way?

Could I not continue, because I have just been interrupted? I will perhaps give way to the noble ...

I just want to come back to the noble Viscount’s key point, which is that IAEA standards are less...

I wholly agree, as I think I said, that the right way is to continue to rely on Euratom until suc...

I thank the noble Viscount for giving way. Is he aware that the Government’s declared intention i...

I am well aware that the Government have explained that their policy is to meet Euratom standards...

Before the Minister sits down—

Oh!

Well, I am sure the noble Viscount is in the Prime Minister’s thoughts for ministerial office. I ...

I am saying that I believe it is not possible by March 2019 to achieve the necessary nuclear co-o...

Before the noble Viscount sits down, will he clarify something? He sought to give us reassurance ...

My Lords, I am not sufficiently aware of the detail of the proportions of different types of isot...

My Lords, I think we should allow the noble Viscount to sit down, and remind ourselves that he is...

My Lords, after the excellent introduction by the noble Baroness, Lady Featherstone, and the exce...

I will intervene very briefly to express my support for the amendments that my noble friend Lord ...

My Lords, I compliment the noble Lord, Lord Hutton, on making clear from the industry’s point of ...

I am very pleased to follow the last two speakers, because I have had associations with both of t...

My Lords, noble Lords have heard about the scale of the risk of not achieving the objective of th...

My Lords, I have some sympathy for the questions raised in this debate and I start by associating...

My Lords, these amendments propose an associate membership of Euratom. In effect, they propose a ...

My Lords, I apologise to the House for not being able to take part at Second Reading. I have some...

My Lords, I have a couple of questions for the Minister before he replies. First, will he answer ...

We had an extensive debate on the principle of Euratom last night and I shall not repeat what I s...

My Lords, I am not sure whether I heard the noble Lord set out his own party’s policy more widely...

We want wisdom, not Wisden.

The noble Lord knows that he always gets wisdom from me. I want also to say that I am not necessa...

My Lords, perhaps I missed them, but what are the long-term arrangements that have already been e...

My Lords, will the noble Lord bear with me? I said that I was going to play a fairly long innings...

I am sorry to interrupt the Minister, but can he say what discussions have actually taken place w...

My Lords, discussions have already taken place with the IAEA. We will continue with those discuss...

I understand what the Minister is saying, but none of us has moved amendments this morning that i...

My Lords, I am sorry if the noble Lord feels that he is not a slow learner. At times, I have felt...

The Minister referred to Article 206 and the agreement that has been arrived at with Switzerland ...

My understanding is that it will allow them to do that. I am not aware that Article 206 could be ...

The Minister is being very helpful. It is the first explanation we have had as to why the Governm...

Can I amplify something from what the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, said? If the Minister looks at my Am...

I was coming to the noble Lord’s amendment to make quite clear our ambitions for that future rela...

In that case, are we not all wasting our time? Could the Minister say whether the International A...

The noble Lord never wastes his time, nor does he waste the time of the Committee, but I can give...

I thank the Minister. I listened carefully to his arguments in response to the amendments. I thin...

Tabled by

Lord Warner

2: Before Clause 1, insert the following new Clause—

“Rev...

I listened carefully to what the Minister said. I did not hear anything which suggested that ther...