Written evidence to be reported to the House
Planning Bill
11:45 am
Jacqui Lait (Shadow Minister, Communities and Local Government; Beckenham, Conservative)
Thank you, Sir John, and thank you for coming in. We are probably going to take most of it as read that you agree with most of what the CBI has already said. I will just ask you about the particular issue of the interaction between the proposed announcement that we are expecting this week on nuclear power stations and what would be a potential national policy statement on nuclear power, and the timescales required for the building of nuclear power stations, in order to move towards meeting renewal energy commitments. Are you expecting that, from an announcement this week on nuclear power stations, there would be a challenge to those power stations that would play into the implementation of any legislation that comes out of this Bill? Hence there might be appeals for the nuclear power stations build to be delayed until there is a national policy statement.