Nuclear Subsidies And Energy Market Competition

EDM number 866 in 2009-10, proposed by Paul Flynn on 10/02/2010.
Categorised under the topic of Nuclear power.

That this House notes that successive energy ministers have said that there will be no subsidies provided for new nuclear plants; further notes that chief executives of private power companies operating in this country, such as Vincent de Rivaz, chief executive officer of EDF Energy, have said that they are seeking no subsidies for any new nuclear plants they may build in Britain; believes that comments by such chief executives are disingenuous and misleading because many nuclear subsidies paid for by British taxpayers are already in place, including the multi-billion pound underwriting of insurance liabilities, the research and development for long-term nuclear waste management and facility decommissioning, the donations made to international nuclear research and promotional bodies, including the International Atomic Energy Agency, the EU's Euratom nuclear agency, and to national bodies including the National Nuclear Laboratory, the Nuclear Academy and the Nuclear Institute; believes in addition that loan guarantees will be sought by companies planning to build new plants; draws attention to another new subsidy revealed in a written reply from the Department for Energy and Climate Change to the hon. Member for Newport West on 5 February 2010 at column 617W, affirming that the Department will pay the £12,000 cost of national stakeholder meeting on the nuclear justification consultation, held at the Marriott Hotel, Marble Arch on 19 January 2010, to discuss documents submitted to the Department by the Nuclear Industry Association, the lobby organisation for nuclear companies; and calls for a halt to all subsidies to the private sector nuclear industry.

This motion has been signed by a total of 34 MPs.