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Asked if the nuclear power industry was being subsidised after the announcements on tariffs were unveiled today, the PMS advised people to speak to DECC on the detail of the announcement on energy.
Asked if the Prime Minister agreed with Chris Huhne’s comments that the plans being put forward on electricity were effectively a carbon tax, the PMS said that what were doing today, was setting out how we could renew our energy infrastructure.
A quarter of our power stations would be closing in the next ten years and that was something we needed to address. We would do that by providing some certainty for the private sector against which they would be able to make the investments that we needed as a country.
The PMS said that we needed to make sure that those investments were consistent with energy security in this country and our objectives for the environment.
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