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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much funding his Department has allocated to the Moorside Nuclear Power station project in Cumbria since February 2017.

The Moorside project was led by a private developer and the Government did not allocate any direct public funding to the project. We have, however, committed £200m to the Nuclear Sector Deal which was agreed with industry to drive competitiveness across the nuclear sector. Through the deal the sector has committed to deliver by 2030: 30 per cent cost reduction in the cost of new build projects, savings of 20 per cent in the cost of decommissioning compared with current estimates, 40 per cent women in nuclear, and up to £2bn domestic and international contract wins.