Speeches by Young.

“Can you briefly summarise what those are, or give examples, maybe?”

“Vanessa, the framework expects projects to be privately financed, but it does allow for revenue support or risk protection. How should the Government ensure that you have proper accountability for public and private investment?”

“Do you see there being a role for future competitions in the nuclear space?”

“Let us move on to the siting choice. Given Wylfa is one of the UK’s strongest strategic sites for gigawatt-scale nuclear, was it right to select it for the UK’s first three Rolls-Royce SMRs rather than a large-scale reactor?”

“Vanessa, do you have any perspective on that?”

“My next question to Vanessa is maybe redundant because I was going to ask about how the Government can ensure that developers outside formal competitions are not excluded from the emerging nuclear market, but it sounds like the way things are developing, that will not really be an issue. Would you agree?”

“I would like to talk about the SMR design competition: what went well? What lessons can be learned? I would like to start with you, Alastair. Other than you winning, obviously, what went well for you in the process, from your perspective? What lessons can we learn, especially from the withdrawals by EDF, NuScale and We…”

“Can you identify any particular parts of the process that caused the delays? I am also interested because prior to the decision, talking to people in the industry, there seemed to be a widespread assumption that you would probably win as the UK competitor. Why did it take so long?”

“What about the withdrawals by some competitors? Do you think there is anything to be learned from that?”

“Just looking back at the process that was gone through, do you think there would have been an argument for—as initially was considered—having two different technologies chosen to allow a competitive evaluation of different technologies? Or is there more advantage in going all in on one technology, from the overall UK e…”

“Q6. Yate station is at the heart of the town’s industrial area and can be a gateway to the eastern end of the west innovation arc. Local rail users tell me they want it improved, businesses stress its importance for attracting a workforce, and in the wake of local manufacturing job losses, its redevelopment could be a …”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Vaz. The extension of this statutory instrument is important to ensure that the Government will continue to be able to support households with energy costs. Given the volatility of fossil fuel prices and Trump’s reckless and illegal war with Iran, it is important that …”

“Will my hon. Friend give way on that point?”

“I would like to return to the issue of UK maritime services facilitating the export of Russian energy, which I raised in this Chamber three months ago. Does the Minister not see the irony that, at a time when we are all grappling with how we fund our own defence, the Government are still letting UK plc bankroll Putin’s…”

“18. What recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of bus services.”

“Those transport authorities that delayed tendering for post-July bus services because of the lack of Government criteria for using finding are now going out to tender, but market information suggests that costs are shooting up due to the war in the middle east. Will the Secretary of State meet me and local representati…”

“Just before I come on to my questions, can I clarify something, Elizabeth? Obviously, Alex was talking about accepting that, for the overall price of crude oil, whether we produce stuff domestically does not make any difference to the price; the issue is simply about the extra tax raised. You said that, when you are ta…”

“That was just for clarification, because there appeared to be a slight difference in what was being said. If I can move on to my actual questions, they are probably for you, Alan, at least to start with. Obviously, we know that during the 2022 energy crisis we saw generators make record profits, and we had suppliers co…”

“You talked about oil there, but if we think about gas, we saw home energy suppliers, for example, going bust.”

“When we are looking at consumers and how they are then contributing to those massive upstream profits, is there anything that we can learn from what happened during the 2022 energy crisis that we could be applying to this one, so that consumers are not taking the hit? Equally, we do not need companies going out of busi…”