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 potential merits of progressing nuclear energy for Northern Ireland.

As outlined in the British Energy Security Strategy, the Government’s long-term ambition is to increase Its plans for the deployment of civil nuclear power by 2050. To facilitate this, the Government has committed to a number of nuclear ambitions, including developing an overall siting strategy for the long term.