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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the (a) availability and (b) reliability of financial backers for Moorside nuclear reactor in Cumbria.

The availability and reliability of financial backers for the Moorside nuclear project is a commercial matter for Toshiba, who own NuGen, the developer of the Moorside site.

We continue to engage closely with NuGen, as we do for other new build developers on a range of issues relevant to delivering new nuclear projects.