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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans he has to support the development of Sizewell C nuclear power station.

Government regularly engages with developers on a range of issues relevant to delivering new nuclear projects, including the proposed Sizewell C nuclear power station.

As my rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy stated to Parliament on 4 June 2018, we will be reviewing the viability of a regulated asset base model as a sustainable funding model, based on private finance for future new nuclear projects beyond Wylfa, that could deliver the Government’s objectives of value for money, fiscal responsibility and decarbonisation.