Speeches by Onn.

“It is a spreadsheet rounding error between different methodologies; 5,000 is not a decimal point, is it? It is quite a lot.”

“Why has it fallen over in the last three years? Was it just a funding issue?”

“Do you include supply chain in this 40,000 figure?”

“How far down the tail of the supply chain do you go?”

“Industry has not felt the need to keep that steady, for its own sake?”

“Sue, do you feel confident in saying that this 40,000 are 40,000 potential new members of Prospect?”

“It is not an achievable outcome?”

“What does a bit of a lull mean?”

“What does the impact of that lull mean? What did the decrease look like?”

“It would be helpful to have a single stat that everybody can come together and say that this is definitely the number and that we are making progress and are not extrapolating down, even the percentage between what are your primary employers versus what is your supply chain. If your supply chain is 80% of your numbers …”

“You did not maintain the numbers, because they went down. They fell over a three-year period. What did they look like three years ago and what do they look like now?”

“What does the impact of that lull mean? What did the decrease look like?”

“Sue, how significant is the competition for skilled workers across different sectors, whether it is energy, defence, transport, other major infrastructure projects? Do you think that there is a risk to the timeline and timeframe for delivery of the nuclear programme, given that we have already seen quite extensive dela…”

“The Nuclear Futures Institute at Bangor University says that, “undergraduate students, the number of Centre for Doctoral Training in fission-related subjects has fallen over the last 3 years”. That is not the same as your information. Why is not it the same?”

“Thank you. Mark, the Nuclear Skills Plan is meant to be increasing academic places, but they seem to be decreasing those as well as the centres for doctoral training. Why is that?”

“You did not maintain the numbers, because they went down. They fell over a three-year period. What did they look like three years ago and what do they look like now?”

“The Nuclear Futures Institute at Bangor University says that, “undergraduate students, the number of Centre for Doctoral Training in fission-related subjects has fallen over the last 3 years”. That is not the same as your information. Why is not it the same?”

“I will draw that to a close now, Sue, because I have a couple of other questions for the other panellists. Thank you so much for that. Mark, we have had some evidence from other witnesses to this inquiry talking about the UK’s siloed approach to skills development and the different projects and different areas of deliv…”

“Are there too many bodies, too many groups? Might that be part of the problem?”

“Do you know what model the NIA uses compared to yours?”