Lisa Nandy MP, Labour’s Shadow Energy Secretary, responding to the government’s announcement on Hinkley Point power station, said:

“Hinkley Point C is on course to become the most expensive power station ever built. The ever increasing costs of this project could leave Britain’s bill payers paying over the odds for decades because Ministers have negotiated such a bad deal.

“There is a role for new nuclear power stations to provide us with low-carbon power supplies but not at any cost. It is especially troubling that the Government is agreeing these extra nuclear subsidies at the very time it is cutting support for more affordable clean energy technologies.”