Speeches by Dixon.

“You were in a safety-critical role. My own background is working on patient safety in the NHS. Indeed, I am vice-chair of the patient safety APPG. I hope that you will agree with me that it is critical to safety that there is a culture where people at all levels feel safe to speak up. I wondered whether you thought tha…”

“I am going to come back later and challenge whether these problems have really completely gone away. I do not think that I heard an apology, but I hope you will at least agree to meet with me and my constituent, Alison. I know we will come back to these issues of safety and culture in the main hearing.”

“Before I get into my area of questioning, I just wanted to pick up the last point that Luke raised about cyber-security. Just to clarify, were you saying that there had or had not been successful attacks?”

“So on no occasion were any of these cyber-security threats successful in accessing your safety-critical systems.”

“When we visited, we heard about something called the programme and project partners approach. It seemed that this longer-term collaboration between different suppliers was creating a more positive way of working than perhaps is reflected within the main operating, and certainly the historic way of operating, at Sellafi…”

“Yes, we did.”

“I did accompany colleagues on that visit to Sellafield, and we did, indeed, see the very innovative use of that modelling and its use to ensure that things were going to get delivered on time and cost‑effectively. It just seemed to me that there was a greater level of focus on project planning, delivery, efficie…”

“Will you be adopting some of this excellence in project and programme management such as the 4D BIM caves?”

“In 2019, Sellafield went under the direct control of the NDA following the creation of what you call One NDA. It seems that, despite that, looking at figure 2 and just hearing that last interaction about the governance structure with the UKGI and what you were saying earlier about the so-called G6—ONR, EA, NDA, Sellafi…”

“You say that you are in the early stages. We are now some five years in since you took over Sellafield, and yet, as paragraph 1.9 of the NAO report says, “In June 2023, ONR wrote to the NDA emphasising that it believed the NDA should play a greater role in offering support and holding Sellafield to account for delivery…”

“As we talked about at the head of the session, and as you have repeated, workforce culture directly impacts safety reporting. Back in 2018, I understand that one of your employee surveys found that only 11% strongly agreed that they could speak without fear of reprisal. Given that Sellafield is a nuclear site where saf…”

“Yes. I would just like a response.”

“My point is that it is still a problem.”

“In the spirit of transparency, I did have some survey results, and, clearly, it is positive that response rates are going up, from just 51% in 2021 to now some 78%, so it is more representative. I have to say that some of the data was rather difficult to interpret. I wonder if this data may also be shared already with …”

“Yes, and perhaps we could ask the ONR to share with us what data it uses to reach that green rating.”

“Q14. One in five disabled people in social housing, and one in three disabled private renters, live in inaccessible housing. One of my constituents with severe fibromyalgia and post-traumatic stress disorder lives in a first-floor flat with no lift access. As we build the 1.5 million new homes that the country needs, w…”

“I thank my right hon. Friend for reassuring my constituents with profound disabilities that they will be protected under these reforms. My niece, who herself has autism and has faced significant barriers to work, is a health coach in a local jobcentre, where she is helping other people with disabilities, neurodiversity…”

“We have heard very clearly that a criminal justice approach is not going to get us anywhere near the ambition that the Government rightly have to halve violence against women and girls. It has to be prevention. We have touched briefly on some of the things that we think might work in terms of prevention, but, clearly, …”

“I am going to pick up with Farah. You spoke very clearly about the pressures on your members. I spoke to my local Bradford Rape Crisis recently and very much understood some of those pressures on the organisations that are supporting victims. How have the demands for those sorts of services changed and what do you thin…”

“Can you help the Committee by unpicking a bit about complexity? I am keen to keep it on the demand side. What is changing about the type of victim that is coming forward? Give us a sense of what you mean by complexity.”