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Second Triennial Review of the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (CORWM)

My honourable friend the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change (Baroness Verma) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement today.

Triennial Reviews are part of the Government’s commitment to ensuring that non-departmental public bodies continue to have regular independent challenge.

The review will examine whether there is a continuing need for CoRWM’s function and its form and whether it should continue to exist at arm’s length from Government.

If there is evidence of a continued need for the body, the review will also examine whether CoRWM’s control and governance arrangements continue to meet the recognised principles of good corporate governance.

I will inform the House of the outcome of the review when it is completed.