Nuclear Management Partners (Sellafield) Debate

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Barry Gardiner

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Nuclear Management Partners (Sellafield)

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Tuesday 13th January 2015

(9 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Ed Davey Portrait Mr Davey
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I wish there were some to look at. Sellafield is unique and if my hon. Friend can point me to a similar site, I will visit it.

Barry Gardiner Portrait Barry Gardiner (Brent North) (Lab)
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The great thing about a National Audit Office report is that it is consensually agreed between the Department and the NAO. I am afraid that rather disproves the points that the Secretary of State has tried to make. He tried to locate the original plan in 2008 under the now Leader of the Opposition, but the report says that the previous plan was designed in 2007. The Secretary of State called this the revised plan, but the NAO report is very clear that, in fact, the

“Authority accepted the revised plan in May 2011”,

so this is a revision of the revision that his predecessor approved. Finally, the report was produced in 2012, when the Secretary of State was in post, and states that there were significant uncertainties back then. Why did he not act on the uncertainties that he agreed with the NAO existed then and work up an improvement for the time break in the contract?

John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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I think the hon. Gentleman is planning for a future career as a regius professor in which he has an attentive audience, no interruption and can expatiate at a length of his own choice. We shall see what happens.