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	registered interest
	date	22/11/2018
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Nuclear Power Stations: Cumbria
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the likely effect of Toshiba's decision to withdraw from constructing a proposed nuclear power station in Cumbria on future UK energy production.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	194635
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2018 answer text <p>Toshiba’s decision to withdraw from Moorside was a commercial one which will understandably have come as a disappointment to the people of West Cumbria. However, the site will return to the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority in due course and we will consider options for its future. The site remains eligible for nuclear new build projects and we welcome discussions with potential investors and operators.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 29/11/2018 09:38:21 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1012459

	registered interest
	date	22/11/2018
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Nuclear Power Stations: Cumbria
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much money his Department has spent on the Moorside Nuclear Power Station project in Cumbria since February 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
	tabling member printed	Tim Farron
	uin	194680
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2018 answer text <p>New nuclear projects in the UK, including Moorside, are developer led. As a private developer led project, the government has not spent any public money other than staff and adviser costs associated with working with the range of stakeholders involved in taking that project forward.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 29/11/2018 09:58:35 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

1012461

	registered interest
	date	22/11/2018
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Nuclear Power Stations: Cumbria
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has plans for a takeover of the Moorside Nuclear Power station project in Cumbria as a result of the announcement made by Toshiba on 8 November 2018 that the company was withdrawing from that project.
	tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
	tabling member printed	Tim Farron
	uin	194682
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2018 answer text <p>The Moorside site will return to the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority in due course and we will consider options for its future.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 29/11/2018 09:15:41 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

1012463

	registered interest
	date	22/11/2018
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Nuclear Power Stations: Cumbria
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has plans to allocate funding to identify a new operator for the Moorside Nuclear Power Station project.
	tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
	tabling member printed	Tim Farron
	uin	194683
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2018 answer text <p>New nuclear projects in the UK are developer led; it is therefore for developers to come forward with plans for new power stations. The Moorside site will return to the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority in due course and we will consider options for its future. We welcome discussions with potential investors and operators at the Moorside site.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 29/11/2018 09:22:03 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron