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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to his oral contribution of 17 January 2019, Official Report, column 1346, what the evidential basis was for his statement that the costs of the proposed Swansea Tidal Lagoon project were three times that of Hinkley Point C.

Alongside the statement which my rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy made to the House on Monday 25^th June 2018, a summary value for money assessment on the Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon project and the programme of lagoons proposed by Tidal Lagoon Power Ltd and an accompanying factsheet were published. These set out the evidence base and calculations. They can be read at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/swansea-bay-tidal-lagoon-value-for-money-assessment