Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 04 Jun 2018
Nuclear Power
"Is not a key part of lowering the strike price for Wylfa that the Government are now proposing a direct stake in the project? If that is the case with the Japanese firm Hitachi and the Japanese Government, surely the Secretary of State will offer the same deal to Toshiba …..."Lord Walney - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 08 May 2018
Nuclear Safeguards Bill
"With respect, the Minister is doing what every single Minister will always do when faced with Opposition amendments—that is, nit-pick over the precise wording. If he is going to table his own amendment, will it clearly state that the UK will not withdraw from Euratom until the required agreements are …..."Lord Walney - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 08 May 2018
Nuclear Safeguards Bill
"I rise to speak in favour of Lords amendment 3.
It is a pleasure, as ever, to follow the hon. Member for Copeland (Trudy Harrison). She spoke powerfully about the contribution of civil nuclear power to our local economy. As she knows full well, every day several hundred people from …..."Lord Walney - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 18 Apr 2018
Industrial Strategy
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 18 Apr 2018
Industrial Strategy
"It is even better to be able to work with the hon. Lady in three dimensions than it was to work with her two-dimensional cut-out last month. Does she agree that, if the industrial strategy for Cumbria is to work properly, we have to see the south and the west …..."Lord Walney - View Speech
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Written Question
Monday 5th March 2018
Asked by:
Lord Walney (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question
to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, by what year the Office for Nuclear Regulation is planning to deliver a Euratom-equivalent UK State System for Accountability for and Control of nuclear material.
Answered by Lord Harrington of Watford
It is my assessment, based on current progress, that the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) would be in a position to deliver to international standards by March 2019 and will then move to Euratom standards as soon as possible thereafter. The speed with which the ONR is able to move from international standards to a domestic nuclear safeguards regime that dependent on negotiations with the EU including negotiations on future co-operation with Euratom on the UK’s safeguards.
Written Question
Monday 5th March 2018
Asked by:
Lord Walney (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question
to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many candidates have (a) applied, (b) been successful and (c) been rejected for positions in the new nuclear Safeguards Inspectorate in the Office for Nuclear Regulation.
Answered by Lord Harrington of Watford
The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) has run two recruitment exercises during 2017/18 to recruit staff into safeguards roles. The second exercise has closed for applications, but shortlisting and interviewing has not yet concluded. As of 1 March 2018, across both recruitment exercises a total of 112 candidates have applied for these roles; six applicants have been offered appointments; and no offers from ONR have been rejected.
Written Question
Monday 5th March 2018
Asked by:
Lord Walney (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question
to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the value is of the spending commitments that the Office for Nuclear Regulation has been authorised to make as part of the project to establish a UK State System for Accountability and Control of nuclear material.
Answered by Lord Harrington of Watford
The Department will allocate to the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) the funding necessary to establish the UK State System of Accountancy for, and Control of, nuclear materials, which meets international standards for nuclear safeguards ahead of 29th March 2019. As explained in the explanatory notes of the Nuclear Safeguards Bill republished on 24 January 2018 when the Bill was brought to the House of Lords, the necessary funding is estimated at potentially up to £10 million. As the first part of this funding, the Department has secured a contingencies fund advance to the amount of £2.275 million to provide financial cover to the ONR for its project activities until the end of financial year 2017-18.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 23 Jan 2018
Nuclear Safeguards Bill
"It is a pleasure to rise to speak in favour of new clause 1. As far as I could follow the argument of the hon. Member for North East Hampshire (Mr Jayawardena) at the end there, he was saying that it would create instability to have an increased transition period …..."Lord Walney - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 23 Jan 2018
Nuclear Safeguards Bill
"The hon. Gentleman bored the Chamber senseless for three times as long—by my count—as was necessary...."Lord Walney - View Speech
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