Speeches by Dixon.

“Do you want to add anything, Mr Hutton, on the point about a learning culture?”

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

“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 …”

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

“Yes. I would just like a response.”

“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…”

“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…”

“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…”

“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…”

“Yes, we did.”

“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…”

“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…”

“I just want to draw attention to the Runnymede Trust evidence we received, which highlights that women and girls of colour are more vulnerable, as are women who are disabled, homeless, refugees and migrants. I would like to put on record my thanks and commendation to Bradford Rape Crisis, who have had a specialist serv…”

“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.”

“I had a particular case in my constituency of a woman with a physical disability, and we found it very difficult to find a refuge that could accommodate her, so those sorts of examples are very real.”

“My colleague Nesil wants to come in on this. I might briefly come back, because of the evidence we have received about some of the more vulnerable groups of women, in terms of how we prevent for them.”

“I see that the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill is going through, which will hopefully do things to improve children’s social care as well. If I may, if we have time, I will just take views on prevention from Emma at MHCLG.”

“On your first part, which was preventing escalation, we heard a lot of evidence. Obviously, the law has changed, and children are now seen to be victims of domestic abuse, but there is clearly a huge lack of support, whether that is children’s social care, in actually being able to safeguard and prevent re-victimisatio…”

“Do you think your Department is equipped to support schools to undertake effective prevention in this fast-moving arena?”