Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 3:29 pm on 22 January 2025.
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster
Labour
3:29,
22 January 2025
My Lords, is my noble friend the Minister aware that the proposal by a consortium of Sheffield industrialists for an SMR national manufacturing centre of excellence would create hundreds of highly skilled jobs in South Yorkshire and across the country, and would also open up the opportunity for British industry to compete internationally for the manufacture of SMRs with British components? Can he assure me that this is exactly the sort of proposal his department will consider supporting and is in line with the points made by my noble friend Lord Spellar?
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