Securing a strong nuclear future

The fight to secure Moorside is ramping up as Cumbria’s MPs plan to hold further meetings with the Minister for Energy next week.

Trudy has urged the Secretary of State for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy to ‘step in’ and ‘recognise the overwhelming need for Moorside’. Speaking today in an Urgent Question on the future of the multi-billion pound Moorside development, Trudy stressed the country’s ‘demonstrable n

A number of the county’s MPs met the Korean ambassador to the UK to seek reassurances over the future of the Moorside deal. Five MPs, including Barrow and Furness’s John Woodcock and Trudy Harrison, the member for Copeland, and South Lakes MP Tim Farron joined together to hold talks with ambassador

A cross-party group of Cumbrian MPs have joined forces to stress their support for the company behind Moorside following continued uncertainty around the future of the nuclear new build.

Trudy Harrison has visited Hinkley Point Power Station with Sellafield unions to discuss future opportunities for nuclear new build and decommissioning in West Cumbria. Yesterday, representatives from GMB, Unite and Prospect joined Trudy in Somerset to tour the sites and learn more about the latest

The future of the UK’s nuclear industry was raised by Trudy Harrison during her first Westminster Hall debate.  Today, Trudy raised a debate on the Nuclear Sector Deal asking Government Energy Minister, Richard Harrington to recognise the capability and potential in a range

Trudy Harrison MP has backed Women in Nuclear (WiN) Cumbria branch to help the Government achieve some of the proposals laid out in its Nuclear Sector Deal. Trudy said: “I am delighted that the much anticipated Nuclear Sector Deal has acknowledged gender diversity as a critical part of the ski

Discussions surrounding the future of nuclear were the focus of a parliamentary debate between Trudy and a group of nuclear graduates.

Trudy Harrison has urged Ministers to commit to Moorside following the announcement of the Government’s £200m Nuclear Sector Deal.

Trudy Harrison MP has today urged the Government to directly engage in nuclear fleet deployment in a bid to ‘revitalise the UK nuclear industry’. On Tuesday Mrs Harrison joined MPs to debate the Lords Amendments of the Nuclear Safeguards Bill, which aims to create the legal framework for a nuc