Energy and Climate Change written question – answered at on 20 May 2013.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change which organisations and stakeholder groups (a) he and (b) Ministers in his Department have met as part of the review of nuclear waste management strategy following the decision of Cumbria county council on the Managing Radioactive Waste Safely programme since 30 January 2013; and when the Geological Disposal Implementation Board last met to discuss the matter.
The Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Mr Davey and the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Energy, Baroness Verma, had one meeting in February with Mr Reed, Sir Tony Cunningham, and the leaders of Allerdale borough council and Copeland borough council.
The noble Baroness attended the February meeting of the Department of Energy and Climate Change's Nuclear NGO Forum, which was also attended by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and the Environment Agency, where she discussed the Managing Radioactive Waste Safely programme with the range of non-governmental organisations present: Blackwater Against New Nuclear Group, Parents Concerned About Hinkley, Shepperdine Against Nuclear Energy, Low Level Radiation Campaign, Bradwell for Renewable Energy, Ayrshire Radiation Monitoring Group, Greenpeace, Nuclear Free local authorities, Stop Hinkley, Save Our Lake District, People Against Wylfa-B, West Cumbria and North Lakes Friends of the Earth, Nuclear Information Service, Socialist Environment and Resources Association, and the Low-level Radiation and Health Conference.
Both meetings were in the context of the Government's efforts to learn the lessons of the MRWS programme's experience to date. A public call for evidence on the site selection process of the MRWS programme was announced on
The Geological Disposal Implementation Board has not met since the decisions by the local authorities in Cumbria.
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