Member

This is a probing amendment, but I am not satisfied at all with the Minister’s response. He might want to dwell on the fact that the HSE has this desktop analysis; in advance of an application at the formative stages, it might do a desktop study. But it does not have the practical task of putting out these conflagrations when they catch fire. With huge amounts of stored electricity, fires are common, and when they happen, they are catastrophic. The noble Lord, Lord Berkeley, referred to the ship that sank off Holland; over 3,000 cars went down with it. It burned for days and the hull glowed white-hot—and that was at sea.