§ Mr. CohenTo ask the President of the Board of Trade what conditions are attached to the spending of the fossil fuel levy by Nuclear Electric; and what proportion of the levy is applied to the decommissioning of nuclear plants.
§ Mr. EggarThe non-fossil fuel obligation and the fossil fuel levy arrangements were introduced to secure the benefits of nuclear and other non-fossil fuel energy in increasing diversity of supply and reducing CO02 emissions. The levy is needed to cover the additional costs 108W associated with nuclear and renewables generation over those of fossil generation. In the case of nuclear, these additional costs include so-called back-end costs, which comprise the reprocessing of spent fuel, the decommissioning of stations and other plants and the treatment and disposal of resulting waste.