Socio-Economics
SUCCESSES
Eryri Centre of Excellence (North Wales) Four local organisations collaborated on a series of schemes, and linked up with Gwynedd Council to seek funding. Their success highlighted the potential for attracting visitors and creating career opportunities for local youngsters . • Six-fold increase in visitor numbers: by 430,000 vs target of 74,000 o Including 3,000 visitors for new downhill mountain biking championships o Including doubling of visitors to outdoor pursuits centre, new self-catering holidays and tourists from beyond Wales • 28.5 new jobs, exceeding target of 16 Nearest NDA site : Trawsfynydd • 6 businesses supported Total investment: £4.6 million • New businesses at mountain biking centre NDA contribution: £455,000 • An estimated £3.3 million additional revenue Partners: Gwynedd Council, Welsh • Schools outreach programme European Funding Office - EU Convergence Funding, NDA, Tourism Partnership Mid Wales, Snowdonia National Park Agency and Welsh Government / Visit Wales 3
Scrabster Harbour Outcomes achieved: • Record revenues for the Harbour Trust • Record oil and gas related vessel activity and tonnage in 2016-17 • Involvement in first tidal energy array in the Pentland Firth • Wider economic impacts on the local and regional economy • 403 jobs vs 339 in 2009 • £4 million increase in gross wages Nearest NDA Site: Dounreay associated with harbour activities Total investment : £20 million over 10 years, • heading for total of £40 million Total harbour output risen to £48.2 million NDA Contribution : £2 million plus a £1.14 million on an ice plant and harbour safety boat. Partners : Scrabster Harbour Trust, Caithness and North Sutherland Regeneration Partnership, Highlands and Islands Enterprise, and Scottish Government 4
Nearest NDA site: Sellafield Investing in Business Total investment: £4.3 million of public funds plus (west Cumbria) a further £13 million from the private sector. NDA contribution: £1.22 million Partners: Britain’s Energy Coast, with programme In 2012, economic support organisation promoted by Copeland and Allerdale Borough Britain’s Energy Coast drew up proposals to Councils, Cumbria County Council help the region’s businesses diversify away from nuclear while simultaneously assisting those seeking to work more effectively in the industry. Outcomes 2013 – 2017 • 378 new jobs (including 328 at SMEs) • 202 jobs safeguarded (including 104 at large companies) • 38 businesses supported • £13.3 million leveraged from private sector 5
Our Strategy & Approach
Our overall socio-economic strategy The Energy Act (2004) gave the NDA a socio-economic role, recognising the importance of ensuring communities are supported as the decommissioning and dismantling programmes make progress, and learning from other industry sectors. Funding provided by the NDA is intended to help local communities affected when levels of economic activity at our sites begin to reduce. To deliver our strategy, the NDA works with our estate & suppliers to develop & share best practice & create synergies in our socio-economic activity. 7
The NDA’s approach • Decommissioning provides jobs in some remote parts of the UK. • Support for local partners in developing alternative economic opportunities. • Aim to maximise the value of NDA assets on behalf of the taxpayer, for example, by re-using land and buildings wherever possible. • Spend comprises around 1% of overall NDA expenditure on local projects. • Funding for projects that develop local skills and businesses to take advantage of economic opportunities from decommissioning. • Funding is allocated on an assessment of local needs and on the basis of a competitive process to identify appropriate projects and organisations. 8
Our 4 principles the NDA group’s socio-economics work is about local Local: communities. We therefore aim to involve them and consult on projects. Evidence: we use data to determine where and when to prioritise budgets. We evaluate the impact of what we do. Governance: our budgets come from the taxpayer which means we need excellent governance, planning, record-keeping, financial reporting and audit. Outcomes: we want to make a difference and a real impact. We look at the outcomes from our work and use to inform future decisions. 9
Our 4 objectives Education and Skills : to enhance opportunities for local people to be involved in decommissioning work and or other economic activity through education, retraining and skills development. Employment: to create sustainable economic opportunities that enable the workforce to continue to living and working locally before and after site closure. Economic and Social Infrastructure : to increase the attractiveness of areas near our sites as places to live, work and invest in, with particular emphasis on environmental, social and infrastructure improvements . Economic Diversification : to support the diversification of local economies into other sectors – reducing communities’ reliance on nuclear sites for employment - by increasing the number, variety and vibrancy of local businesses, promoting entrepreneurship and taking steps to attract new enterprises. 10
To Simplify Objectives Across the Group From 2018 onwards, we will introduce the following descriptors: Sustainable Incomes: to improve access to sustainable incomes, by increasing skills, knowledge, aspirations & access to opportunities . Resilient Economies: to enable local wealth-building & inclusive growth in the capacity, diversity & capability of our local economies. Thriving Communities: to assist our communities to thrive by supporting sustainable activities that create self-reliance and independence . Social Value Chains: to create social impact with our supply chain (increasing impact, scale, duration and effect of our supply chain activity). Collective Impact: to leverage collective impact & investment by engaging and working with our stakeholders, partners & communities . Integrated Culture: To practise an integrated social impact culture and co-ordinated approach to delivery. Improve Performance: Robust evaluation & monitoring informing social impact decision-making. 11
Economic Evidence 16,000 Directly employed in decommissioning 53,977 Total employment effect (direct, indirect, induced) 43,800 Total employment effect Sellafield 1,506 Total employment effect Dounreay 548 Total employment effect Wylfa (1.9% of jobs on Anglesey) £2.7bn Annual national GVA contribution £2.1bn Sellafield Ltd GVA contribution £2m Magnox fleet contribution to local business rates 12
Economic Challenges Most communities - lower than average qualifications - higher than average salaries - low (if any) economic growth in declining sectors - employment effects concentrated very locally Caithness/N Sutherland - working age population to fall by 12% - 65+ population to almost double - net out-migration West Cumbria - low productivity levels - business growth underperforming - relatively few innovative/knowledge-hungry jobs - over-dependence on heavy manufacturing (declining sector) 13
Socio-economic Total Group commitments 2017/18 £10 million = total NDA Group socio-economic commitments in 2017/18. Sellafield Ltd £5,789,849 Copeland Community Fund £1,545,000 Nuclear Decommissioning Authority £1,208,325 Magnox Ltd £689,398 Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd £556,771 Caithness & North Sutherland Fund £208,721 Low Level Waste Repository £35,000 14
2017/18 Breakdown of group commitments More than 200 projects benefitted from NDA Group socio-economic programmes in 2017/18 Economic & Social Infrastructure Economic Diversification Other Costs Education / Skills Funding for Future Projects Employment Good neighbour projects 15
The GREEN Skills Project Gloucestershire Renewable Energy, Engineering and Nuclear was the first development at the Gloucestershire Science and Technology Park, formerly Berkeley Nuclear Laboratories, to be redeveloped. 16
The GREEN Skills Project The new campus opened in September 2017 17
NDA Stakeholder Summit In July 2018 the NDA Stakeholder Summit was held at the new campus. 18
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