Hinkley Point C Power Station

(asked on 7th October 2016) - View Source

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 security of the intellectual property of the European Pressurised Reactor technology to be used at Hinkley Point C.


Answered by
Jesse Norman Portrait
Jesse Norman
This question was answered on 21st October 2016

On 15 September, following the comprehensive review of the Hinkley Point C project, my Rt Hon Friend the Secretary of State announced new safeguards for future foreign investment in critical infrastructure.

The protection of intellectual property at Hinkley Point C is a commercial matter for the developer.

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