Speeches by Onn.

“Given that one of the questions was who is accountable for getting these additional 40,000 jobs, and we have lost 5,000 in half an hour, which is not really very good—”

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

“On the basis that I also used to do these surveys of companies and businesses and it was never that easy to get the data and get it in a timely fashion and accurately, and given that some jobs were on a part-time basis or a contracted basis or whatever it might be, how confident are you in that 16,000 figure compared t…”

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

“Sue touched on it not being all about salaries, but are UK salaries career pathways—perhaps even entry pathways into work, different working conditions, patterns—suitably attractive, suitably visible compared to the international nuclear markets? Is there more that could be done?”

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

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

“Does it all have to be about apprenticeships and graduate programmes? Are there other base-level training and entry routes that could be open?”

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

“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 …”

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

“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?”

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

“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?”

“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…”

“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 do, yes. Mark, I want to check on some numbers. You said that over the last year 16,000 people have been recruited towards this additional 40,000 target, but the NIA says 11,000. Why is there a 5,000-person discrepancy?”

“It is not an achievable outcome?”

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