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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the Government’s policy is on business rate retention for local communities which are to host new nuclear power plants; and if he will make a statement.

Community benefits will form one part of the Government’s work on delivering ambitions for new build nuclear, as set out in the British Energy Security Strategy. The specifics, such as business rate retention, have not yet been determined.