Hinkley Point C Power Station

(asked on 19th October 2017) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has performed any assessment of the effects of withdrawal from the EU and the decision to leave Euratom on the compensation clause in the Secretary of State Investment Agreement for Hinkley Point C.


This question was answered on 25th October 2017

We remain firmly committed to bringing forward the UK’s first new nuclear plants in a generation.

The Hinkley Point C contracts make provision for compensation in certain defined circumstances. The details of when these apply are set out in the agreements.

The consequences of the intended withdrawal from the Euratom treaty will be closely monitored and the department is in close consultation with the industry about its impacts.

The Government will continue to support Euratom and to ensure that the UK continues to meet its international safeguards, and nuclear non-proliferation obligations and support its thriving nuclear industry.

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