TRADE union leaders wrote to Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng today, urgently seeking an end to the delay in funding for a signed-off nuclear power plant station.

The letter, signed by TUC deputy general secretary Paul Nowak, Unite general secretary Sharon Graham, GMB general secretary Gary Smith and Prospect general secretary Mike Clancy, expressed concern that time was running out for the government to make its own commitment to funding the project at Sizewell C in Suffolk.

It warned that the government’s proposed funding model, the Regulated Asset Base model (RAB), will only be effective once a Government Investment Decision (GID) is confirmed.