Future of Moorside to be discussed as MPs Trudy Harrison and John Woodcock call for backing. It could create 21,000 jobs in Cumbria. Copeland MP Trudy Harrison and Barrow and Furness MP John Woodcock urged the Government to take a stake in the project, which could secure 21,000 jobs in Cumbria. Speaking in the Commons chamber during an urgent question on the nuclear sector deal, Mrs Harrison praised the Government for “demonstrating its recognition of our nuclear sector.” She said: “I was particularly pleased to see the reference to 40 per cent more females working in the industry by 2030 and I hope the Minister will join me in acknowledging the work that Women in Nuclear does and also the barriers, because often these nuclear licence sites are in rural, coastal locations where sufficient high quality, affordable, flexible childcare is simply not available at the moment. I hope the minister would work with me in my own constituency. He talks of the 87,500 workers in the nuclear industry, and in Cumbria we have 27,000 of those, and we are absolutely the centre of nuclear excellence.”
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