Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will provide a breakdown of the estimate of the total whole life costs for Hinkley Point C in the major project portfolio data published in September 2016.

The estimate of the Whole Life Costs for Hinkley Point C in the major project portfolio data is £49,891.2m. The Whole Life Costs are determined by the difference between the Strike Price and the long-term Wholesale Electricity Price forecasts, which are influenced by market prices for fossil fuels, which may vary.

The Whole Life Cycle costs have been calculated in nominal terms and have not been discounted.