Hazel Blears has been appointed as the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority’s Social Value Specialist
In this new role, Hazel will provide advice to the whole of the NDA group on how to increase the social, economic and environmental impact of its work to decommission and clean up the UK’s oldest nuclear sites.
Hazel is a nationally recognised expert in this field and is Chair of the Social Investment Business and a Trustee of the Social Mobility Foundation. Hazel is a former cabinet minister and, during her time as an MP, was one of the authors of the Social Value Act.
The NDA group has seventeen sites across the UK, including Sellafield - the world’s most complex nuclear site. The NDA group employs 16,000 people across 10 separate businesses and manages an annual budget of over £3 billion. Our unique supply chain includes many of the country’s leading engineering and construction companies, and it is estimated around 45,000 jobs in the UK depend on nuclear decommissioning.
The NDA group is a significant local employer in West Cumbria, Caithness and North West Wales, and Hazel’s work will focus on these regions in particular.
In her new role at the NDA, Hazel will look at a number of important areas:
Hazel said:
NDA Director of Communication and Stakeholder Relations, Paul Vallance, added: