Speeches by Young.

“3. What steps she is taking to help to ensure the effective prosecution of rural crime.”

“Stephen, in your evidence you noted that there was a potential for other Government projects to be crowded out by the money allocated to nuclear. What projects do you think we should be worried about?”

“Potentially, it could increase, and we are not protected from that.”

“Do you think that there are other protections there specifically? If construction costs spiral and it is more than you are predicting at the moment, do we have protection? I think that what Sam was saying is that, under contracts for difference, you remove that risk from the taxpayer, but what about under the regulated…”

“Fiona, do you think that these models provide sufficient protections for the taxpayer if construction costs increase more than expected, which we have seen, for example, with Hinkley?”

“Hinkley C is funded through contracts for difference and Sizewell C through the regulated asset base model, and we are going to start paying for that through our bills this month. Sam, what impact are these models likely to have on consumer electricity bills in the long run?”

“Doug, does the Government’s choice of SMRs at Wylfa signal that they have effectively given up on large-scale nuclear projects?”

“Is it not possible that your assumptions about things such as our ability to provide enough storage, for example, could be wrong? Any of these assumptions could be wrong. We have to work with the information we have at the moment.”

“Do you feel that any of the challenges that you identified that prevented the Horizon site have been sufficiently addressed?”

“Sam, you have already covered this to some extent. What are the anticipated benefits and challenges of deploying SMRs at Wylfa compared to traditional large-scale nuclear plants? You have already talked about some of the general benefits that you see for SMRs. Are there any that particularly relate to the site?”

“Some people have thought Wylfa for the large scale and Oldbury for the SMRs, out of the two sites, and yet we have ended up with SMRs going at Wylfa.”

““A monstrosity”, “the giant greenhouse”, “like living next to a large prison” and “like ‘War of the Worlds’, it just kept getting bigger and bigger”. Those are just a few of the words that my constituents in the village of Pilning have used to describe a gigantic new warehouse being built close to their homes. In a deb…”

“In the light of the strategy’s departure from decades of shared assumptions, will the Government revise the 2025 national security strategy, and if not, why?”

“Residents of Pilning woke up one day to find piling work taking place on the edge of their village for a massive, stadium-sized warehouse, which they have dubbed the mega-shed. It now looms over their homes. Not only is it over 20 metres high, but the land on which it is built has been raised, making it even more impos…”

“We cannot just immediately turn it off?”

“I think one of you said that the wholesale gas price is very dependent on the LNG price. Presumably, it does make a significant difference to the cost of energy in Great Britain whether the gas comes from LNG, pipeline imports, domestic offshore or shale, or does it not because LNG is going to drive the price regardles…”

“If I could start with Tom, please. Michael Grubb said that if gas prices go way down, bills will get quite a lot cheaper. Although what we are seeing at the moment is wholesale gas prices are lower and less volatile than they were earlier, but consumers are not seeing a significant reduction in the price cap. Why is th…”

“Is that something you can only identify after the fact?”

“How do you identify bad energy trading in this context?”

“That could apply, regardless of whether you have PPAs or not. That is generally making it easier to develop renewables. Is there anything specifically to do with PPAs in terms of supporting more use of those in the private sector?”