The MP for Copeland, Trudy Harrison, delivered a nuclear roadmap to the energy minister.

Co-chair of the Nuclear Delivery Group, with Ynys Mon MP Virginia Crosbie, she hosted the meeting with Minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan and experts in nuclear engineering, which provided the opportunity for the energy minister to hear the groups' proposals to push forward an agenda for new nuclear in the UK.

The group was formed in December last year with industry partners to discuss the role of atomic energy in achieving net zero and levelling up ahead of the United Nations' 26th Climate Change summit in November, being hosted in Glasgow.

Trudy said: "Nuclear energy is vital to deliver on our net zero ambitions and the whole industry stands ready to produce forty gigawatts by 2050 as required.

"Today, presenting our recommendations to Minister Trevelyan marked the coming together of all parts of the sector for what we hope will be a great British science, engineering and construction revolution."

The plan outlines proposals for the development of multiple large-scale nuclear projects and investments in small modular reactors and advanced modular reactors.

Virginia Crosbie said: "Nuclear will be at the forefront of how the UK achieves its 2050 net carbon neutral ambitions.

"For that to happen we need an expansion of nuclear power, increased investment in our workforce so we have the skills to achieve those ambitions and new reactors n places like Wylfa Newydd on Anglesey."

The meeting follows a statement in the House this week to mark six months since the launce of the Prime Minister's Ten Point Plan to a Green Industrial Revolution.