Member

I return to the question put to the Minister at Second Reading about whether GBE would invest in an SMR project in South Yorkshire. The Minister did not answer the question from the noble Baroness, Lady Winterton. He said merely that he took note of what she said about the “potential of SMR manufacturing”. Amendment 86A would surely lead to a framework where SMR projects, such as the one in South Yorkshire, could apply on a level playing field with renewables projects for government support or match funding, and assist them to become more competitive than their US competitors. The Minister said that the UK will “play a full part” in the global renaissance in nuclear energy. Surely he agrees that that will not happen without a more coherent framework linking the Government’s energy-related bodies.