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Lords Chamber
Great British Energy Bill
Report stage part one - Tue 11 Feb 2025
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Viscount Hanworth (Lab - Excepted Hereditary) The same is true of the current designs of small modular reactors, which are also pressurised water reactors - Speech Link
2: None In years to come we may perhaps have brought in nuclear, for instance, with small modular reactors. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) I am sure that noble Lords will want to come back by citing small modular reactors as a response to this - Speech Link
4: None The point is that we see huge potential for small modular reactors. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Great British Energy Bill
Report stage part two - Tue 11 Feb 2025
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Lord Howell of Guildford (Con - Life peer) He expects this own party to back small nuclear reactors in their constituencies. - Speech Link
2: Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (Lab - Life peer) into SR discussions about the final investment decisions, and we see great potential in relation to small - Speech Link
3: Lord Cryer (Lab - Life peer) The total area used by solar farms is very small: even in the most ambitious scenarios, less than 1% - Speech Link
4: Lord Hamilton of Epsom (Con - Life peer) So I hope that what we will be looking at is using small modular reactors dedicated to actually producing - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Cost of Energy - Tue 11 Feb 2025
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) The local, family-run small business is the one that will probably suffer the most. - Speech Link
2: Edward Morello (LD - West Dorset) that the UK has the highest energy prices in the developed world, but that is misleading, and in no small - Speech Link
3: Joy Morrissey (Con - Beaconsfield) with solar panels to produce a fraction of the power that could be generated by gas power plants or small - Speech Link
4: John Hayes (Con - South Holland and The Deepings) If we distribute energy production to small solar plants spread right across the kingdom, we will maximise - Speech Link
5: Michael Shanks (Lab - Rutherglen) We have the ability to place small modular reactors across the country near centres of demand, such as - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Biomass Generation - Mon 10 Feb 2025
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Julian Lewis (Con - New Forest East) Can he give us some idea of the timetable for when the first small modular nuclear reactors—preferably - Speech Link
2: Michael Shanks (Lab - Rutherglen) Gentleman will not draw me into the ongoing competition on small modular reactors, but he has made the - Speech Link


Written Statements
Nuclear Energy: Consenting and Regulation - Thu 06 Feb 2025
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Ed Miliband (Lab - Doncaster North) the deployment deadline for new projects, and expands the range of technologies covered to include small - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 06 Feb 2025
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Gurinder Singh Josan (Lab - Smethwick) recent comments about supporting and enabling the expansion of nuclear power stations in the UK through small - Speech Link
2: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) We have tried to mitigate the impact of those steps as much as possible for small businesses, and 50% - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill [HL]
Report stage - Wed 05 Feb 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Blunkett (Lab - Life peer) It is a combined effort between employers, big and small, and those of us, in Parliament and outside, - Speech Link
2: Lord Ravensdale (XB - Excepted Hereditary) industry, we could in the Midlands consider, for example, just what Derby needs for submarine nuclear reactors - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 04 Feb 2025
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Louise Haigh (Lab - Sheffield Heeley) GB Nuclear is about to make two decisions on small modular reactors, and I know my right hon. - Speech Link
2: Ed Miliband (Lab - Doncaster North) views on this issue, but clean energy is the economic opportunity of the 21st century—whether it is small - Speech Link
3: Andrew Bowie (Con - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine) They have delayed the small modular reactor down-selection competition, and we have not heard a peep - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Energy Development Proposals: Mid Buckinghamshire - Mon 03 Feb 2025
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Greg Smith (Con - Mid Buckinghamshire) electricity to power 50,000 homes on current usage—before everyone has two Teslas on the drive—yet a small - Speech Link
2: Greg Smith (Con - Mid Buckinghamshire) She is absolutely right that the strain being put on our small, rural county from so many projects—the - Speech Link
3: Michael Shanks (Lab - Rutherglen) modular reactors, as I said at the beginning of my remarks, we do not see energy as coming from one - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 30 Jan 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Gareth Thomas (LAB - Harrow West) Small businesses are critical to our economy and to the future of all our communities. - Speech Link
2: Justin Madders (Lab - Ellesmere Port and Bromborough) freezing the small business rate multiplier. - Speech Link
3: Bradley Thomas (Con - Bromsgrove) Those banks are a lifeline to many small businesses, particularly those run by independent small entrepreneurs - Speech Link