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	date	08/03/2021
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Nuclear Power Stations: Bradwell-on-Sea
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what progress has been made on plans for the construction of a new nuclear power-generating facility at Bradwell-on-Sea.
	tabling member printed	Lord Howell of Guildford
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL13967
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2021 answer text <p>I understand the developer is focussing on prioritising technical aspects with associated risks including impact of Covid-19 on their project, whilst pausing other areas of work including detailed preparations for Development Consent Order application, with the aim of re-engaging and sequencing their overall development programme in the future.</p><p> </p><p>This is a commercial decision for the developer, new nuclear projects are developer led, and it is not a matter for the Government.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 22/03/2021 15:51:15 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
	tabling member	993 label Biography information for Lord Howell of Guildford

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	date	25/02/2019
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	NHS: Bullying
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the practice of NHS trusts of using non-disclosure agreements in cases of bullying and harassment affecting staff members.
	tabling member printed	Lord Beecham
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL13967
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2019 answer text <p>No assessment has been made of the practice of National Health Service trusts using non-disclosure agreements in cases of bullying and harassment affecting staff members.</p><p>Any clause in a settlement agreement or contract of employment which purports to prevent a member of staff from a making a protected disclosure would have no legal effect. Such clauses are often referred to as ‘gagging’ clauses and have no place in the NHS. No organisation can to put such a provision in a settlement agreement or employment contract.</p><p>Since 2013, all agreements where confidentiality clauses are used, also require the inclusion of a clause which makes it crystal clear to the parties concerned, that regardless of what other clauses are used in the agreement, an individual will always be able to make a protected disclosure in the public interest and/or raise concerns about patient safety and care in accordance with their professional and ethical obligations.</p><p>The NHS Long Term Plan commits £2 million per year to tackling violence against staff and bullying in the NHS. The Plan states that “To make the NHS a consistently great place to work, we will seek to shape a modern employment culture for the NHS – promoting flexibility, wellbeing and career development, and redoubling our efforts to address discrimination, violence and bullying and harassment”.</p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford question first answered 11/03/2019 16:54:03 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
	tabling member	4181 label Biography information for Lord Beecham