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Private Management Organisations For Nuclear Companies: Government Proposal For Nuclear Decommissioning Authority Indemnification

EDM number 1094 in 2013-14, proposed by Paul Flynn on 13/02/2014.
Categorised under the topic of Nuclear power.

That this House notes that on 6 February 2014 the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) presented to Parliament a departmental minute concerning a contingent liability relating to an indemnity to be given by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority in relation to the proposed Magnox Ltd and Research Sites Restoration Ltd Parent Body Organisation (PBO) competition (6 February 2014, Official Report, columns 33-4WS); recalls that a similar notification for Sellafield PBO indemnification was made in August 2008, with significantly negative implications for the public purse; further notes that the minute asserts that the prospective PBOs ?are not prepared to accept liability? for certain nuclear liability claims; further notes that despite international protocols being established to cover nuclear operational liabilities since 2004, the UK has not yet ratified them in the subsequent decade; further notes that the justification put forward by DECC to Parliament is that there is a ?low probability? of a claim against the public purse; but further notes with serious concern that the minute also reveals that ?because of the nature of nuclear activities the maximum figure for the potential liability is impossible to accurately quantify'; believes that such a proposal unacceptably privatises the profits and socialises the liabilities; and calls on the Government fully to explain and justify the basis of the minute, and not to incur such an uncapped liability upon the public purse until it has received the explicit support of Parliament for doing so.

This motion has been signed by a total of 16 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Paul Flynn13/02/2014Newport WestLabourProposed
Kelvin Hopkins24/02/2014Luton NorthLabourSeconded
Margaret Ritchie24/02/2014South DownSocial Democratic and Labour PartySeconded
Mark Durkan24/02/2014FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySeconded
Jim Dobbin24/02/2014Heywood and MiddletonLabourSeconded
Jeremy Corbyn24/02/2014Islington NorthLabourSeconded
John McDonnell24/02/2014Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
Mike Hancock25/02/2014Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Martin Caton25/02/2014GowerLabourSigned
Caroline Lucas25/02/2014Brighton, PavilionGreenSigned
Ronnie Campbell26/02/2014Blyth ValleyLabourSigned
Dennis Skinner26/02/2014BolsoverLabourSigned
Alasdair McDonnell27/02/2014Belfast SouthSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Joan Walley03/03/2014Stoke-on-Trent NorthLabourSigned
Roger Godsiff11/03/2014Birmingham, Hall GreenLabourSigned
George Galloway01/04/2014Bradford WestRespectSigned

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