{"id":2480,"date":"2022-04-19T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T12:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=2480"},"modified":"2022-04-20T12:33:57","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T12:33:57","slug":"energy-security-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=2480","title":{"rendered":"Energy Security Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>John Whittingdale<\/strong><br><strong>(Maldon) (Con) <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>II welcome my right hon. Friend\u2019s commitment to a new generation of nuclear power stations. Can he confirm that the eight designated sites remain the Government\u2019s preferred locations for those, including Bradwell in my constituency, and has he yet reached a view on whether a Chinese-designed reactor could be included?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy<\/strong><br><strong>Kwasi Kwarteng<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As my right hon. Friend will know, Bradwell passed the generic design assessment. That was an arm\u2019s-length process in which the Government did not become involved. There is clearly a discussion to be had about how we can take Bradwell forward, but, as my right hon. Friend knows, there is an absolute commitment to up to eight sites. I am not saying eight, because obviously we have small modular reactors as well, but eight sites would mean roughly 24 GW.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Whittingdale(Maldon) (Con) II welcome my right hon. Friend\u2019s commitment to a new generation of nuclear power stations. Can he confirm that the eight designated sites remain the Government\u2019s preferred locations for those, including Bradwell in my constituency, and has he yet reached a view on whether a Chinese-designed reactor could be included? Secretary of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1533,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-speeches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2480"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2486,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480\/revisions\/2486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}