Member

The Government are racing ahead with small modular reactors. In my view, there should be an alignment here by ensuring that SMRs are based in industrial clusters and supporting industry there, but also vice versa, so that as we move ahead with the SMR programme, we ensure that British steel is used throughout the supply chain. It was a courageous decision by the Government to choose Rolls-Royce SMR for that programme when other international bidders were available. We need to make the most of that by ensuring that the procurement for those contracting for that work uses UK steel.