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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, on what grounds the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority decided to appeal the decision Energysolutions EU Ltd v Nuclear Decommissioning Authority [2016] EWHC 1988 (TCC); and whether that decision was formally directed or sanctioned by the Government.

The decision to appeal was made by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) after careful consideration of the adverse High Court judgment of 29 July. The NDA kept the Government informed about the ongoing litigation in the usual way, in line with its Framework Document.