Written Question·Department for Energy Security and Net Zero·UIN 49231

Hinkley Point C Power Station: Construction

Tabled: 29 April 2025

Answered: 6 May 2025

Named Day

Question

Seamus Logan

Scottish National Party — Aberdeenshire North and Moray East

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what his Department's original budget was, including Government-backed loans and guarantees, to support the construction of the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant in (a) real and (b) current

Answer

Michael Shanks

The financing of Hinkley Point C is the responsibility of EDF (Électricité de France) and China General Nuclear Power Corporation (CGN). The latest update from EDF on costs of Hinkley Point C can be found here (on page 29): https://www.edf.fr/sites/groupe...

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