Great British Nuclear: Modular Reactors - Question

Part of the debate – in the House of Lords am 2:37 pm ar 2 Rhagfyr 2024.

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Photo of Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist Shadow Minister (Wales), Opposition Whip (Lords) 2:37, 2 Rhagfyr 2024

I thank the Minister for that Answer. Will he explain exactly what has caused the damaging schedule slippage within GBN? Is it the shortage of staff, underfunding, underestimating the workload required or the many layers of approval—11 separate Whitehall approval committees at the last count—in order to allow GBN to announce the latest download of SMR technologies?