Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Imran Hussain and Andrea Leadsom

Thursday 19th November 2015 Commons Chamber

[Andrea Leadsom]

The hon. Lady will know that the UK has an enormous nuclear legacy dating back to the 1940s and ’50s. A huge amount of work is being done at Sellafield and other sites to dispose safely of that nuclear waste. As she will know, the budget is extremely large—in the region of £3 billion—but that money is being spent to deal safely with this very long legacy. I can assure her, however, that new nuclear creates far less waste. We are planning a geological disposal facility to make sure that future taxpayers have nothing like that legacy to deal with.

[Imran Hussain (Bradford East) (Lab)]

11. What discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for International Development on preparations for the Paris climate conference in December 2015.