Source · Select Committees · Public Accounts Committee
Recommendation 29
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The Department told us that following its experience of the Magnox contract, it had undertaken...
Conclusion
The Department told us that following its experience of the Magnox contract, it had undertaken a full review to establish whether it had the right governance and it was now confident that this was the case. It also told us that the NDA has similarly taken “really important steps in the way that it is run” including increasing its commercial capabilities and strengthening its board. It confirmed that it intended to keep governance arrangements under “continual renewal and focus” and that it would pay close attention to NDA’s development and performance but was “currently seeing a really reassuring trajectory”.48 The NDA confirmed that the new governance arrangements have been co- created between it and the Department and that it was confident that it had the team needed to take on the new work. It told us that it was “getting strong support from the Department and good challenge”.49
Government Response
Not Addressed
HM Government
Not Addressed
Given the scale and complexity of decommissioning the AGR stations, the department agrees that its oversight of a complex set of governance arrangements is itself not subject to sufficient scrutiny and challenge. Please see response to recommendation 7.