Mentions:
1: Lord Naseby (Con - Life peer) reactors, which were not covered in the NAO report. - Speech Link
2: Lord Naseby (Con - Life peer) Can my noble friend answer the question about small nuclear reactors? - Speech Link
3: Lord Callanan (Con - Life peer) is not the subject of this particular policy statement, but my understanding is that Great British Nuclear - Speech Link
Report Mar. 22 2024
Committee: Public Accounts CommitteeFound: –21HC 59 2nd Lessons from implementing IR35 reforms HC 60 3rd The future of the Advanced Gas-cooled Reactors
Asked by: Alan Brown (Scottish National Party - Kilmarnock and Loudoun)
Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, pursuant to the Answer of 19 March 2024 to Question 18508 on Oldbury Power Station and Wylfa Power Station: Land, who undertook the independent valuation; and whether the commercial value of land adjacent to decommissioned reactors was taken into account as part of that valuation.
Answered by Andrew Bowie - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
Independent valuations of the land were conducted by Knight Frank. The inherent characteristics of the land as well as the previous development work which make the land suitable for consideration for nuclear development informed the valuation of the sites.
Mar. 21 2024
Source Page: HMT ministers' meetings, hospitality, gifts and overseas travel: 1 July to 30 September 2023Found: Jeremy Hunt 20/07/2023 EDF Energy To discuss the UK nuclear sector.
Mar. 21 2024
Source Page: AUKUS Trilateral statement: 22 March 2024Found: The Optimal Pathway outlines an ambitious plan to deliver a conventionally armed, nuclear-powered submarine
Mar. 21 2024
Source Page: Community benefits for electricity transmission network infrastructureFound: the government has an ambition for up to 50GW of offshore wind by 2030 , to progress up to eight new nuclear
Mentions:
1: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) This major collaboration will help secure the future of our British defence nuclear enterprise, adding - Speech Link
Oral Evidence Mar. 20 2024
Inquiry: Keeping the power on: our future energy technology mixFound: Q532 Mark Garnier: I wanted to ask about nuclear.
Report Mar. 20 2024
Committee: Public Accounts CommitteeFound: –21HC 59 2nd Lessons from implementing IR35 reforms HC 60 3rd The future of the Advanced Gas-cooled Reactors
Mentions:
1: Alan Brown (SNP - Kilmarnock and Loudoun) That is the scenario that we are always told that nuclear is needed for. - Speech Link
2: Alec Shelbrooke (Con - Elmet and Rothwell) Does she have any insight into what that may do to the ability to bring nuclear reactors online in the - Speech Link
3: Thérèse Coffey (Con - Suffolk Coastal) Friend the Member for Maldon (Sir John Whittingdale) is keen to see small modular reactors there in future - Speech Link