Part of the debate – in the House of Lords am 2:37 pm ar 2 Rhagfyr 2024.
Lord Jones
Llafur
2:37,
2 Rhagfyr 2024
My Lords, will my noble friend the Minister please consider how we might give good news to those sites in north-west Wales, principally the Wylfa plant in Ynys Môn—Anglesey—now dormant, and Trawsfynydd in Meirionnydd, now dormant? The communities around those great plants that generated nuclear power for Britain deserve consideration in so far as, throughout north-west Wales, skilled jobs with good wages and status are very rare and both communities have deserved investment from our Government.
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