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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make an assessment of the effect of the UK ceasing to be a member of Euratom on the Joint European Torus project's (a) funding, (b) staffing, (c) operational experiments and (d) collaboration with other EU scientist and member states.

Maintaining and building on the UK’s world-leading fusion expertise and securing alternative routes into the international fusion R&D projects such as the Joint European Torus (JET) project will be a priority. Government is working closely with the UK Atomic Energy Authority on ways to achieve this.