Speeches by Young.

“The peculiarity with nuclear is the way it is had the dip.”

“Do you want to add anything on that, Mark?”

“I want to ask a few questions about how the Government can stimulate lasting private investment in nuclear skills. Sue, you have already talked about the need for a long-term plan for the certainty, but are there any other things that the Government can do to incentivise private sector investment in nuclear skills and …”

“The peculiarity with nuclear is the way it is had the dip.”

“Do you want to add anything on that, Mark?”

“Is there a danger sometimes that the focus on local jobs is on the lower-paid ones requiring fewer qualifications?”

“How can you secure that commitment? Is there a particular formal mechanism?”

“I want to ask a few questions about how the Government can stimulate lasting private investment in nuclear skills. Sue, you have already talked about the need for a long-term plan for the certainty, but are there any other things that the Government can do to incentivise private sector investment in nuclear skills and …”

“Mark, we have talked about Monday to Thursday jobs and that has historically been the situation for many of the elite jobs. Should all major projects be obligated to secure lasting community benefits so that the local community is securing some of these jobs? If so, how?”

“Is there a danger sometimes that the focus on local jobs is on the lower-paid ones requiring fewer qualifications?”

“Given we have had this long gap, we are stuck in the middle, aren’t we, in that we have a history of nuclear but we have had a long break?”

“Mark, is the UK preparing enough skilled personnel for the long-term decommissioning waste programmes or will we have a shortage in this?”

“Presumably there will be the same dip but shifted decades on, in that there will be a period where we were not building. Given that we are extending lives of power stations, there will be a period where we will not be adding to the number being decommissioned as much. There is a period where we are, which is now, but t…”

“I represent an area that has a decommissioning power station. Sue, often the political focus is on the new reactors because we all like new and shiny in politics, don’t we? But nuclear obviously requires skills across that entire lifecycle. Do you think that that focus has overshadowed the needs of decommissioning, was…”

“Where it has dropped and picked up and how they have done the picking up.”

“Are there other examples internationally?”

“Presumably there will be the same dip but shifted decades on, in that there will be a period where we were not building. Given that we are extending lives of power stations, there will be a period where we will not be adding to the number being decommissioned as much. There is a period where we are, which is now, but t…”

“I represent an area that has a decommissioning power station. Sue, often the political focus is on the new reactors because we all like new and shiny in politics, don’t we? But nuclear obviously requires skills across that entire lifecycle. Do you think that that focus has overshadowed the needs of decommissioning, was…”

“Where it has dropped and picked up and how they have done the picking up.”

“Are there other examples internationally?”