Member

On Amendment 48, I cannot quite recall this in the most recent national policy statements, but in the past, sites where nuclear power stations could be placed were named. A consequence was that this almost predetermined that a nuclear power station would be there. As a consequence of Amendment 48, not allowing a challenge to how the Government have come to that conclusion—although I appreciate that it will have had parliamentary scrutiny—would again be unfair to those communities, because it would signal that, probably within 20 years, they definitely will have a nuclear power station sited in those places. There were certainly named sites in the NPSs done back in 2011.