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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the predicted flood risk frequency is for the proposed location of the Sizewell C nuclear station when taking into account the impact of climate change on sea levels.

Sizewell C is a live planning application. Given the Department’s statutory responsibility for determining individual planning applications for energy projects, I am therefore unable to comment on the specifics of this case.

The Energy National Policy Statements, to which the Secretary of State must have regard when considering applications for new nuclear power stations, make clear that Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects must be resilient to the impacts of climate change, including sea level rise.