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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 11 March 2019 to Question 228711, what funding has been spent to date on the strategy for small modular nuclear reactors; and what funding has been contractually committed.

Of the up to £56m we announced in the Nuclear Sector Deal towards advanced nuclear technologies we have contractually committed to spend just under £10m on the Advanced Modular Reactor Programme. This includes contracts signed as part of the AMR Feasibility & Development projects and the money provided to the Nuclear Regulators to increase their capability.