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Nuclear Subsidies And Science Research And Development Funding

EDM number 1567 in 2006-07, proposed by Dai Davies on 24/05/2007.

That this House recalls that the current Energy Minister, Lord Truscott, and his predecessor, the hon. Member for Croydon North, as Ministers at the Department of Trade and Industry, have asserted on numerous occasions that no public subsidies for construction, operation or liability management of radioactive wastes will be provided for any new nuclear plants for which applications are made for planning permission from private sector investors; notes that the Department of Trade and Industry has now clawed back a significant proportion of the £68 million allocated to the scientific research councils to pay for unpredicted radioactive waste liabilities from the privately owned British Energy power generator, and believes that this decision by the Department of Trade and Industry serves to undermine assurances that the nuclear industry can stand on its own financial feet and as a warning to this and future governments that nuclear power always requires subsidies, direct and indirect, and is thus an economically unsustainable and insecure form of energy.

This motion has been signed by a total of 21 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Dai Davies24/05/2007Blaenau GwentIndependentProposed
Jeremy Corbyn24/05/2007Islington NorthLabourSeconded
Lynne Jones04/06/2007Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSeconded
Paul Flynn04/06/2007Newport WestLabourSeconded
Paul Holmes04/06/2007ChesterfieldLiberal DemocratSeconded
Michael Weir05/06/2007AngusScottish National PartySeconded
Gordon Prentice05/06/2007PendleLabourSigned
Ann Cryer05/06/2007KeighleyLabourSigned
Angus MacNeil05/06/2007Na h-Eileanan an IarScottish National PartySigned
Elfyn Llwyd06/06/2007Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSigned
Mark Williams07/06/2007CeredigionLiberal DemocratSigned
Neil Gerrard11/06/2007WalthamstowLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins12/06/2007Luton NorthLabourSigned
Alan Simpson13/06/2007Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Rudi Vis13/06/2007Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Mark Durkan15/06/2007FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Dan Rogerson15/06/2007North CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Doug Naysmith19/06/2007Bristol North WestLabourSigned
Bill Etherington28/06/2007Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Alex Salmond03/07/2007Banff and BuchanScottish National PartySigned
Martin Caton04/07/2007GowerLabourSigned

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