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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what discussions he has had with small businesses in the nuclear sector on his Department's sector deal for the nuclear industry.

Work on proposals for a Nuclear Sector Deal has been led by Lord Hutton, as chair of the Nuclear Industry Association (NIA) and co-chair of the Nuclear Industry Council, on which small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are represented. The NIA informs us it has hosted a series of engagement workshops across the country in the development of the potential deal, including with Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs), and these were well attended by several SMEs.