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In years to come we may perhaps have brought in nuclear, for instance, with small modular reactors. I forgot to declare in Committee my modest shareholding in Rolls-Royce; it certainly would benefit if the contract was given to it. Small modular reactors might well bring in good new sources of electricity and it may be possible to wrap up Drax at some stage, which is polluting the atmosphere and contributing to CO₂ emissions. We have to be very careful that we do not fall into the trap of saying that, because it is being fed with sustainable wood chips or oil-seed rape is being grown and so forth, we are not emitting vast amounts of CO₂ to get to the point where we generate the electricity. We need to look very closely at this.