Member

Let us cut to the chase of what is really going on here. I was in Suffolk for all that time. The DCO for Sizewell C was tabled in May 2020 and the approval given in July 2022, but I am aware of a lot of pre-consultation. It was not all necessarily due to consultation problems; it was more to do with quite a lot of changes in aspects of policy—the coalition Government, ultimately a change of Prime Minister, Brexit and all the other things—which were factors, as well as adjusting the financing. Of course, EDF has pretty much pulled out of Sizewell C. That has added to the complication that we are talking about. There are a number of groups that I will name together against Sizewell C, and they just kept filing JR after JR, which was ridiculous. But there is a point to be made here: ultimately, it is judges who decide whether a process has merit. I do not know whether more needs to be done in discussions with the judiciary. At what threshold does it decide something has merit?