Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Written Statement of 27 March 2017, HCWS 554, when the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority became aware that there was a significant mismatch between the work that was specified in the contract as tendered in 2012 and awarded in 2014 and the work that actually needs to be done.

This was a complex contract, and there was a standard process to compare the bid assumptions with the actual and detailed scope of the work that needed to be delivered. The decision to terminate the contract with Cavendish Fluor Partnership was made by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority Board on 20 March 2017 and received ratification from the Accounting Officer, my Rt Hon Friend the Secretary of State the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and Chief Secretary to the Treasury on 26 March 2017.