Part of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 31 January 2017.
Jesse Norman
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy)
12:00,
31 January 2017
My hon. Friend is absolutely right to recognise that the question must be considered in the round and not merely on the merits or no of the Swansea Bay scheme. It is the Government’s job to consider the advantages and disadvantages of tidal lagoons as a whole and to take a decision that includes not merely the financial elements, but also environmental elements, the capacity to generate power as part of a wider energy mix and ancillary elements.