Written Question·Department for Energy Security and Net Zero·UIN 77466

Small Modular Reactors

Tabled: 16 September 2025

Answered: 14 October 2025

Named Day

Question

Mr Clive Betts

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to the press release entitled Rolls-Royce SMR selected to build small modular nuclear reactors, published on 10 June 2025, what estimate he has made of the proportion of reacto

Answer

Michael Shanks

Following a robust procurement based on fairness and transparency, Great British Energy – Nuclear (GBE-N) has selected Rolls-Royce SMR as its preferred bidder to partner with to deploy the UK's first SMRs, subject to final government approvals and contrac...

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