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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to his Department's announcement, Community benefits for sites that host new nuclear power stations, published on 17 July 2013, if he will publish the date from which communities will receive community benefit as a direct grant from his Department.

I refer the hon. Member to the answer given by the then Minister of State for Energy and Climate Change Michael Fallon on 17^th July 2013, Official Report, Column 105-106WS:

https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmhansrd/cm130717/wmstext/130717m0001.htm#13071774000008

The minister’s statement described how community benefit is to be paid delivered in two stages. Firstly, authorities hosting new nuclear power stations would retain a share of the business rates that a new nuclear plant pays once it begins generating electricity, up until the end of the decade in which the plant comes online. Thereafter, the remainder of the community benefit package would be paid directly by BEIS. For example, Hinkley Point C is scheduled to come online in 2025; direct payment from BEIS would therefore start in 2030.