Lords Grand Committee
10 November 2026
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Lords Grand Committee House of Lords
Follow its sittings00:04 - 00:17
Speaker 1
My Lords, if there is a division in the chamber whilst we're sitting in this committee will adjourn as soon as the division bells are rung and resume after 10 minutes. Motion for debate, Fusion Energy Generation, Baroness Curran.
00:17 - 02:01
Speaker 2
Thank you. It's a pleasure to be with you this afternoon. My Lords, I beg to move that this House takes note of the draft National Policy Statement for Fusion Energy Generation, EN-8. At its heart, EN-8 is about preparing for a transformative new energy source. Fusion offers the prospect of abundant, low-carbon, safe energy.
It has the potential to strengthen our long-term energy security, support economic growth, and position the United Kingdom at the forefront of the emerging global industry. Fusion is already supporting UK jobs, supply chains, and innovation. Efforts to commercialise it will enable us to capture a significant proportion of the emerging global market. This debate is not about what specific projects should look like or where they should be located. Rather, it is about ensuring that our planning system is ready for the significant opportunities that fusion future fusion energy projects may bring to local areas and to the UK as a whole.
It is about signaling to the rapidly growing global fusion industry that the UK is open for business, and that we are ready to support real-world fusion energy deployment. And EN-8 marks an important milestone in that journey. As noble Lords will know, national policy statements are statutory documents prepared under the Planning Act. They provide the principal framework for the assessment of development consent applications for nationally significant infrastructure. Once designated, EN-8 will be the world's first national planning policy dedicated to fusion energy infrastructure.
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