Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Wednesday 14th December 2016 Ministerial Corrections

Tidal Lagoons and UK Energy Strategy

The following is an extract from the response to the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon) during the Westminster Hall debate on tidal lagoons and UK energy strategy by the Under-Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the hon. Member for Hereford and South Herefordshire (Jesse Norman) on 6 December 2016. The answer given was as follows:

[Jesse Norman]

I am sorry to have given up time for that intervention, because I was coming to that point. SeaGen, as the hon. Gentleman recognises, was a research test bed, and it is being decommissioned now. It received a £10 million grant from the Department, and those conclusions are being carefully assessed. It is a project in which there has already been public investment.

[Official Report, 6 December 2016, Vol. 618, c. 47WH.]

Letter of correction from Jesse Norman:

An error has been identified in a response I gave to the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon) during the Westminster Hall debate on tidal lagoons and UK energy strategy.

The correct response should have been:

[Jesse Norman]

I am sorry to have given up time for that intervention, because I was coming to that point. SeaGen, as the hon. Gentleman recognises, was a research test bed, and it is being decommissioned now. It received a £5.2 million grant from the Department, and those conclusions are being carefully assessed. It is a project in which there has already been public investment.