Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate she has made of how long it will take to complete the decommissioning of Sellafield if annual expenditure on that process remains at its current level.

The profile of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority’s forecast expenditure at the Sellafield site is determined by the programme of work, and follows a downward trend over the next 50 years following a short-term peak in the current decade. No estimate has been made of the effect that maintaining expenditure at current levels would have on the predicted date of the completion of the mission at Sellafield (currently 2120).