The Government announced that it is to invest £763 million in civil and nuclear projects and create 40,000 jobs by the end of the decade.
Energy Security Minister Andrew Bowie has denied that an announcement about investment in the nuclear industry is really a green energy pledge.
He was asked the question after the Government announced that it is to invest £763 million in civil and nuclear projects and create 40,000 jobs by the end of the decade.
Bowie told GB News: “Obviously, nuclear is clean technology, it is clean energy. There is no net zero without nuclear, that's been recognised across the world.
“One of the huge benefits of all of this investment in new technologies, including nuclear, is that we're going to be creating hundreds of thousands of new high wage, high skilled jobs, the length and breadth of the country, many in places where high wage jobs are actually at a premium.”
In a discussion during Breakfast with Eamonn Holmes and Isabel Webster, he was also asked about the Trident missile mis-fire from a Royal Navy submarine last month.
He said: “There was no actual test failure. We've got full confidence in the Royal Navy and our submarines and indeed our systems for defending the United Kingdom.
“This announcement has been made because over the past few months, we've seen a series of announcements regarding civil nuclear capacity being increased our AUKUS submarine programme, our Dreadnought submarine programme, and it was recognised that we needed to build up the skilled workforce here in the UK and to deliver that.
“That's what today's announcement is about as well as bringing it all together in a command paper. It sort of outlines our confidence and how important our continuous deterrence actually is to the UK.”
Asked if the UK needs to do more to defend against cyber attacks by hostile foreign states, he said: “We've demonstrated over the past few years through the various Acts of Parliament that we have used to bolster the powers of our intelligence and security forces, that we take the defence of democracy and the defence of the British people Incredibly importantly.
“We won't stop at anything to ensure that democracy and freedom of speech and indeed the British people are protected and I'm sure we'll be seeing more on that later on today.
“We take it incredibly seriously, as I said, and that's why we've taken the action we have.”
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