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Debate between Peter Prinsley and Lindsay Hoyle
Tuesday 18th March 2025

(1 week, 5 days ago)

Commons Chamber
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Peter Prinsley Portrait Peter Prinsley
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Small modular reactors, as the Minister says, will play an important part in delivering clean, cheap and secure energy across this country. However, current rules require that any reactor must apply for regulatory justification, as if nuclear power was an entirely new practice instead of an existing one. That delays reactors getting online and lowering energy bills for people across the country, including in Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket, by up to two years. Will the Secretary of State consider working with his Cabinet colleagues to simplify the system and recognise that nuclear energy technology is an existing practice, thereby accelerating the deployment of small modular reactors?

Lindsay Hoyle Portrait Mr Speaker
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Another Adjournment debate.