Extract from Commons
summer recess adjpurnment debate
(Filton and Bradley Stoke)
(Con):...As well as its historic links with aviation,
demonstrated fantastically by the Aerospace Bristol museum and
science, technology, engineering and maths learning centre—home
to the last Concorde to land at Filton airfield, where the
British Concordes were designed and built—my constituency in the
south-west of England is at the centre of the largest aerospace
cluster in Europe. There are 800 companies and 57,000 people in
the south-west working in the aerospace supply chain for
companies such as Airbus, Rolls-Royce
GKN and Leonardo...
Extract from Lords
repeat of Commons urgent question on Net Zero Strategy: High
Court Ruling
(Con): My Lords,
surely a key aspect of reaching net zero is implementing the
British Energy Security Strategy, which aims to increase the
share of nuclear to 25%. Can the Minister tell the House what
more the Government are doing to encourage modular nuclear
systems and nuclear fusion?
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for
Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy () (Con): My noble friend
is absolutely right; I am sure he noticed the granting of
planning permission to the Sizewell C reactor yesterday. We are
supporting Rolls-Royce to
the tune of over £100 million to support the production of
designs for small modular reactors, and we think that they will
have a significant contribution to make—albeit not for a number
of years yet. Of course, the latest developments in fusion, which
we are also supporting, are particularly exciting. If my noble
friend wants to contribute to the debates on the Energy Bill, we
are setting in place a regulatory framework for fusion.
