Extract from Treasury
Questions: Investment Zones
(Sheffield South East) (Lab): I
was present on the day the Chancellor came to launch the
investment zone in my constituency, and of course I too welcome
the investment into Boeing there. Does he accept that one of the
other areas for future development in the investment zone is
small modular reactors? A consortium is being developed in
Sheffield with Sheffield Forgemasters, Rolls-Royce and
GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy to look at the future—not merely to
develop the techniques for SMRs, but to start building SMRs in
Sheffield. Would he be willing to look at that proposal and
hopefully offer support for it?
: I enjoyed meeting the hon.
Gentleman when we opened that investment zone. Let me reassure
him that I am a big supporter of nuclear and I am very excited
about the potential of SMRs. There is a competition going on this
year, which we hope will be completed by the end of the year, to
assess the viability of the various SMR manufacturers, and we
want to get going as quickly as we can.
Extract from Committee
stage of the Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas
Matters) Bill
, (Parliamentary
Under-Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and
Communities): Rozanne, can I bring you in on those points?
Rozanne Foyer, General Secretary, Scottish TUC: The STUC has a
long-standing policy of support for a peaceful two-state solution
to the Israel-Palestine conflict. We also have, since 2009,
supported BDS as a policy and a campaigning method. Basically
that has been part of our international campaigning for decades,
not just in relation to Israel. Fifty years ago we supported
Rolls-Royce workers
who refused to repair the aeroplane engine
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