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

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the fusion research programme at the Culham Centre will continue to be funded following the UK's departure from the EU.

The UK is a world leader in fusion research and development (R&D) and we have no intention of compromising this following the government’s decision to withdraw from the Euratom Treaty. We fully recognise the importance of international collaboration in fusion research and the UK’s key role in these efforts.

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