Caroline Flint – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Energy and Climate Change

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Caroline Flint on 2015-01-15.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, with reference to page 45 of his Department’s Annual Report and Accounts for 2012-13, what proportion of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority’s budget was spent on decommissioning and cleaning up nuclear plants in (a) 2012-13 and (b) 2013-14.

Matthew Hancock

As defined for the purposes of the Department of Energy and Climate Change’s Annual Report and Accounts, the proportion of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority’s expenditure through its Site Licence Companies that was used for decommissioning was 35% in both 2012-13 and 2013-14. The remainder of this budget was spent on waste and nuclear materials management, commercial operations and support costs.