Alan Brown – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Alan Brown on 2015-10-13.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, with reference to the schedule of comparable programme objects in HM Treasury’s publication, Funding the Scottish Parliament, National Assembly for Wales and Northern Ireland Assembly: Statement of Funding Policy, published in October 2010, what the total expenditure was on UKAEA-Decommissioning between 2010 and 2015; and what the forecast expenditure in which locations is on such decommissioning in each of the next five years.
Joseph Johnson
The data in the HM Treasury publication Funding the Scottish Parliament, National Assembly for Wales an Northern Ireland Assembly, Statement of Funding Policywas compiled in 2010 using a different financial database system to the one subsequently in use by BIS and its delivery partners. This means that the information requested could only be provided at disproportionate cost. However the UK Atomic Energy Authority, which is responsible for the UK fusion programme, has provided the following information.
|
Year |
Legacy costs1 |
JET decommissioning costs1, 5 |
|
2010/11 |
8,279 |
29 |
|
2011/12 |
10,798 |
37 |
|
2012/13 |
7,356 |
43 |
|
2013/14 |
6,814 plus 1,050 capital2 |
62 |
|
2014/15 |
6,024 plus 1,554 capital2 |
42 |
|
2015/16 |
8,315 (est.) plus 6,010 capital2 (est.) |
166 (est.) |
|
2016/17 |
See note 3 |
214 (est.) |
|
2017/18 |
See note 3 |
943 (est.) |
|
2018/19 |
See note 3 |
16,3064 (est.) |
|
2019/20 |
See note 3 |
28,251 (est.) |
Notes
1. Figures in £000s.
2. Capital costs cover new facilities on the Culham site such as the Materials Research Facility and RACE (Remote Applications in Challenging Environments) funded partly through the National Nuclear Users Facility and Oxford City Deal.
3. Subject to next Spending Review.
4. The costs rise substantially in 2018/19 due to the expected closure of JET in 2018 and start of decommissioning. However this date is under review with the European Commission with an extension proposed.
5. These costs are undiscounted and form part of the total undiscounted liability for decommissioning JET of £256,544k as stated in the 2014/15 UKAEA Annual Report and Accounts.
