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Lord Harrington of Watford (Non-Afl)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 15 October 2025

Debate

Modular Nuclear Programme

Contribution

My Lords, I declare my interest as chairman of Make UK, which has about 26,000 manufacturers as members, including most of those in the nuclear sector. In 2017, I was the nuclear Minister and made a big announcement that the Government were going to get involved in small nuclear reactors and were funding a competition to decide which company would do it. Now, nine years later, the Government have made another announcement that this is going to happen. Our members, naturally, are a bit cynical about when and how this is going to take place. Can the government side alleviate their fears and let them know when this is actually going to happen?

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