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Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 22 July 2025

Debate

Great British Energy: Nuclear Development

Contribution

My Lords, given the announcement at the weekend that £200 million is going to be spent through Great British Energy to purchase solar panels from China, how can the Minister reconcile that with the amendment passed by your Lordships’ House that goods that may have been manufactured using slave labour in places such as Xinjiang would not be purchased by Great British Energy? Surely it would have been better to invest that money in British jobs and British production in making solar panels here.

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