PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
(8 April 2025)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to ensure that Scotland benefits from nuclear energy developments in the UK.
Asked by:
Blair McDougall (Labour)
Asked by:
Blair McDougall (Labour)
Answer
Nuclear energy creates well-paid jobs and develops vital transferable skills. Investment in new nuclear power stations brings billions of pounds into local communities. It is good for the environment and good for national energy security.
So, what do the SNP say to all that? No thank you! But of course, they are happy to accept Scotland’s energy baseload coming from English nuclear power.
Their outdated, ideological opposition is holding Scotland back.
Answered by:
Ian Murray (Labour)
23 April 2025
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