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Socio-Economics

SUCCESSES

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Eryri Centre of Excellence (North Wales)

Nearest NDA site: Trawsfynydd Total investment: £4.6 million NDA contribution: £455,000 Partners: Gwynedd Council, Welsh European Funding Office - EU Convergence Funding, NDA, Tourism Partnership Mid Wales, Snowdonia National Park Agency and Welsh Government / Visit 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

• Including 3,000 visitors for new downhill

mountain biking championships

• 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
• 6 businesses supported
• New businesses at mountain biking centre
• An estimated £3.3 million additional revenue
• Schools outreach programme

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Scrabster Harbour

Nearest NDA Site: Dounreay Total investment: £20 million over 10 years, heading for total of £40 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 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

associated with harbour activities

• Total harbour output risen to £48.2 million

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Nearest NDA site: Sellafield Total investment: £4.3 million of public funds plus a further £13 million from the private sector. NDA contribution: £1.22 million Partners: Britain’s Energy Coast, with programme promoted by Copeland and Allerdale Borough Councils, Cumbria County Council

Investing in Business (west Cumbria)

In 2012, economic support organisation Britain’s Energy Coast drew up proposals to 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

Our Strategy & Approach

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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.

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The NDA’s approach

• Decommissioning provides jobs in some remote parts of the UK.
• Support for local partners in developing alternative economic
• pportunities.
• 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.

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Our 4 principles

Local: the NDA group’s socio-economics work is about 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:

• ur 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

• utcomes from our work and use to inform future decisions.

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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

• f local businesses, promoting entrepreneurship and taking

steps to attract new enterprises.

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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.

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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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.

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The GREEN Skills Project

The new campus opened in September 2017

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NDA Stakeholder Summit

In July 2018 the NDA Stakeholder Summit was held at the new campus.

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How to find out more

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