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Energy: Severn Barrage

Volume 697: debated on Monday 7 January 2008

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Lord De Mauley

asked Her Majesty's Government:

When the feasibility study into the Severn Barrage, promised by the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform on 25 September, will commence; what the process of consultation will be; and whether they will ensure that the study is broad enough to consider all the sustainable options sufficiently thoroughly to establish the optimum solution on both cost and sustainability grounds. [HL788]

The Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office & Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
(Lord Jones of Birmingham)

I refer the noble Lord to the answer given by my honourable friend the Minister for Energy in the other place on 3 December 2007, Official Report col. 908W, to the honourable Member for Tewkesbury.