Magnox: Early Contract Terminations Debate
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Huw Merriman
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Magnox: Early Contract Terminations
Huw Merriman Excerpts(7 years, 1 month ago)
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Greg Clark
This is about a procurement process that was mis-specified around decommissioning; it is not against the build costs of a future reactor. If Steve Holliday’s report includes wider lessons for the industry, we will be sure to take them.
Huw Merriman (Bexhill and Battle) (Con)
All public sector organisations can learn much from procurement processes and public-private initiatives, as the £3,700 a minute spent by the NHS on private finance initiatives would attest. Will the Secretary of State assure me that all public sector organisations will be given the opportunity to learn best practice from the Holliday review?
Greg Clark
I will. It is important when there is such a serious set of consequences for public money that the conclusions should be publicly available, and available to this House and to other Government Departments that may want to reflect on them.