{"id":3888,"date":"2024-10-08T10:20:24","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T10:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=3888"},"modified":"2025-03-18T16:17:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T16:17:42","slug":"topical-questions-energy-security-and-net-zero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=3888","title":{"rendered":"Topical Questions &#8211; Energy Security and Net Zero"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>John Whittingdale&nbsp;Shadow Minister (Health and Social Care)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Does the&nbsp;Secretary of State&nbsp;accept that the only way we will both meet our net zero targets and keep energy&nbsp;bills&nbsp;down is by pressing ahead with a new generation of nuclear power stations? Will he therefore accelerate existing projects such as&nbsp;Hinkley Point&nbsp;and&nbsp;Sizewell C, and press ahead with small modular reactor and advanced modular reactor technology?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ed Miliband&nbsp;The Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I agree with the right hon. Gentleman. Nuclear is an essential part of the energy mix. We are mainly going to have a renewable system, but nuclear is an essential accompaniment. I fully support all the projects he mentions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Whittingdale&nbsp;Shadow Minister (Health and Social Care) Does the&nbsp;Secretary of State&nbsp;accept that the only way we will both meet our net zero targets and keep energy&nbsp;bills&nbsp;down is by pressing ahead with a new generation of nuclear power stations? Will he therefore accelerate existing projects such as&nbsp;Hinkley Point&nbsp;and&nbsp;Sizewell C, and press ahead with small modular reactor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1531,"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-3888","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\/3888","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=3888"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4367,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3888\/revisions\/4367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}