PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Euratom (31 January 2017)

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the effect on the (a) Joint European Torus project and (b) Culham Centre for Fusion Energy of the UK's decision to withdraw from Euratom; and if he will make a statement.

Asked by:
Ian Murray (Labour)

Maintaining and building on the UK’s world-leading fusion expertise and securing alternative routes into the international fusion R&D projects such as the Joint European Torus (JET) project will be a priority. Government is working closely with the UK Atomic Energy Authority on ways to achieve this.

Answered by:
Jesse Norman (Conservative)
9 February 2017