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<p>The Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has not received any
requests for documents submitted to the European Commission for State aid clearance
with regard to plans to support radioactive waste and decommissioning proposals for
new nuclear power stations.</p><p>The former Department of Energy and Climate Change
(DECC) received one such request in the last 12 months. The request asked for “the
main document setting out the United Kingdom justification for state aid clearance,
along with a full list of the titles of all support documents, submitted to the European
Commission, in respect of the European Commission consideration of the pricing methodology
for waste transfer contracts to be concluded between the UK Government and operators
of new nuclear power plants and its compatibility with EU state aid rules, on which
the Commission reported its conclusions on 9 October 2015”.</p><p>In its response
DECC confirmed that it did hold the information requested but was withholding it as
the information fell within the scope of the exception set out in regulation 12(5)(a)
of the Environmental Information Regulations and that the public interest lay in withholding
the information.</p>
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