Forthcoming Events
17 March 2010
10th National Stakeholder Group Meeting
This meeting is by invitation only. It allows declared stakeholders to engage with NDA on various issues of national interest.
17 March 2010
Demo: Lasers in Nuclear Decommissioning
TWI Ltd present a NDA funded project to demonstrate the capabilities of lasers for surface removal of contaminated concrete and cutting of pipe and metalwork.
05 May 2010
Socio Economic Panel
Panel to consider funding requests under £100,000.
Press Enquiries
For urgent enquiries out of office hours, please use the mobile phone numbers below:
Bill Hamilton
Head of Stakeholder
Communications
Office: 01925 802193
Mobile: 07816 315132
Brian Hough
Communications Manager
Office: 01925 802177
Mobile: 07812 554009
Rachael Collins
Communications Manager
Office: 01925 802255
Mobile: 07971 918968
Deborah Ward
Communications Manager
Office: 01925 802343
Mobile: 07980 930838
Statement in response to Times article published Wednesday 25 November 2009
25 November 2009
The NDA is totally focused on achieving its clean-up mission while providing value for money for the UK taxpayer. This is even more crucial given the wider economic situation.
As part of its financial and budgetary planning processes the NDA, along with other agencies, is taking part in a Government-wide review to identify options for transformational value for money savings called the Public Value Programme (PVP). The aim is to drive efficiency and effectiveness, and options identified through the PVP process will be used to inform the next spending review, currently expected in the first half of 2010.
The NDA Board will consider a range of options that will be submitted to a review panel of senior Government officials, including representation from the nuclear regulators which is essential to ensure safety considerations are taken fully into account. The range of scenarios to be considered includes:
- Bringing forward some work, subject to affordability, where there are strong value for money business cases
- Deferral of some non-essential work to later years
- Deletion of scope where alternative plans can be formed
- Increasing income generation from our remaining assets
- Opportunities for further efficiency savings across the estate
This work has begun and is due to be completed by February. We will ensure that stakeholders are kept informed at all stages of this process.
Within a constrained funding environment, it is critical that we are able to direct every available pound towards core activity. Therefore, it is a priority for the whole NDA estate, including our Site Licence Companies which carry out the work on our sites and the NDA itself, to reduce the proportion of our budget spent on support costs so that we can deliver more decommissioning and clean-up work.
