Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to secure funding for the development of a nuclear plant at Moorside in Cumbria.

Toshiba is seeking to sell NuGen, the developer of the proposed Moorside nuclear plant, in a private commercial transaction. We engage regularly with developers on a range of topics, including financing, though the details of these discussions are commercially confidential.