{"id":464,"date":"2017-03-28T15:05:16","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T15:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.johnwhittingdale.co.uk\/?p=464"},"modified":"2021-08-18T09:16:39","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T09:16:39","slug":"magnox-early-contract-terminations-in-the-house-of-commons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=464","title":{"rendered":"Magnox: Early Contract Terminations &#8211; in the House of Commons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"line-height: 15.6pt;\"><b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">John Whittingdale Conservative, Maldon<span> <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;\">Will my right hon. Friend join me in paying tribute to the workforce at Bradwell-on-Sea in my constituency? They are doing a magnificent job in decommissioning the power station there. Will he confirm that nothing in his statement will prevent that work from continuing? Will he also listen to their concerns about the effect on their pension entitlements of certain changes that have been made regarding the cap on exit payments?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span><span><span style=\"color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;\"><span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">Greg Clark, The Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy<span><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">I join my right hon. Friend in paying tribute to the workforce. As he will be aware, good progress has been made in decommissioning the site in Bradwell, with the underground waste vaults containing intermediate level waste having been cleared and decontaminated. That is a reflection of the hard work. There is a separate set of discussions and consultations going on with regard to the pension arrangements, which is not related to today\u2019s announcement.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Whittingdale Conservative, Maldon &nbsp; Will my right hon. Friend join me in paying tribute to the workforce at Bradwell-on-Sea in my constituency? They are doing a magnificent job in decommissioning the power station there. Will he confirm that nothing in his statement will prevent that work from continuing? Will he also listen to their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1533,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-speeches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1837,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions\/1837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}