Extract from Energy
Security and Net Zero questions
(Warley) (Lab): British
industry has supplied small modular nuclear reactors to the Royal
Navy for more than 60 years, giving us a head start on the
exciting commercial application of this zero carbon energy
technology. Why is the Minister undermining and delaying its
progress by going through an unnecessary so-called international
competition, rather than backing British engineering excellence
and British workers?
The Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero (): That is a brilliant
question. What happened during all those years when the Labour
party was against civil nuclear power? This Government are moving
ahead, and we have set up Great British Nuclear and funded
Rolls-Royce with
£210 million and counting. I have already said from this Dispatch
Box that we are starting a competition now to select a winner in
the autumn. Where were Labour Members when we were doing all
this?
Extract from
Westminster Hall debate on Research and Development Funding and
Horizon Europe
(Sheffield Central)
(Lab):...It is good to see you again so soon, Mr Hosie. I think
that, when we were interrupted in such an untimely way, I was
talking about the AMRC in Sheffield. Its partnership with Boeing
and Rolls-Royce
has shown how universities and industry can work together
effectively, and participation in Horizon and the earlier
framework programmes was vital to its development...
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