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I am delighted to have been appointed Interim Chair of the NDA as of 1 September 2023. The NDA delivers a vital role on behalf of the nation and my commitment is to continue to work with the Board and wider leadership team to ensure that our values are upheld to support the safe and efficient delivery of the mission, create great places to work and enable the NDA to be trusted to do more. Attendance at scheduled Board meetings during the year is detailed in the following table. These meetings were all hybrid meetings with the majority of the Board attending in person and remainder joining remotely. Additional ad hoc meetings were held, and written resolutions were passed, as and when required. Scheduled committee meeting attendance records can be found in the committee reports. Additional Board and committee meetings can be called as required. Name David has a wealth of experience within the industrial sector having held a series of senior HR leadership roles in TATA Steel in Europe, BAE Systems and GEC Alsthom. Roles have included HR Director for the TATA Steelmaking Operations in South Wales and HR Director for Shipbuilding and Support business across Glasgow and Portsmouth within BAE systems. David joined the NDA in April 2014 and plays a leading role in skills as a Board member for the Engineering Construction Industry Training Board. He is also an NDA nominated Non-Executive Director of Sellafield Limited. Executives in post during the year: Neil Harnby As well as recording a ship’s position, course and the weather, masters’ logs can include details of: The following Governance Statement provides an insight into the corporate governance framework for the NDA and our group entities during 2022/23. The framework is used to measure our performance and effectiveness in the delivery of strategic and operational objectives. The NDA’s Governance Framework

Step changes continue to be made that will bring longer-term benefits in the future. For example, the process for preparing a business case now requires sustainability considerations to be included. This ensures that sustainability is at the heart of the NDA’s future decision making.

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An NDA is a legal contract. It sets out how you share information or ideas in confidence. Sometimes people call NDAs confidentiality agreements.

We continuously review compliance against the Code and undertake horizon scanning exercises to ensure new regulatory or legislative changes are considered and applied where appropriate.

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Sustainability is one of the NDA’s critical enablers, added for the first time as part of our 2021-2026 Strategy published 2021, with the objective to ensure that mission outcomes and the journey to deliver them are sustainable. The Board provides effective and proactive leadership within a robust governance framework of clearly defined internal controls and risk management processes.

Medical officers, sometimes referred to as surgeons, on board ship were required to keep a general journal on the health of the ship’s company.

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Think internationally and act locally on nuclear skills, developing the capabilities of the UK skills base to facilitate decommissioning and the wider nuclear sector Confirm that the Annual Report and Accounts as a whole is fair, balanced and understandable and take personal responsibility for the Annual Report and Accounts and the judgements required for determining that it is fair, balanced and understandable. Embedding and building upon demonstrable improvements in the governance and company secretarial support provided to the Board. You should make sure your NDA excludes these kinds of requests if you are talking to a public authority or university. 7. Further help

You could ask your potential partner or advisor if they have an NDA you could both use. Read it carefully as it might serve their interests rather better than it serves yours. If in doubt, take professional advice. Francis has performed numerous important advisory roles in the UK and internationally as a recognised expert in radiochemistry, in particular plutonium and nuclear materials. Francis was a Director of the Dalton Nuclear Institute from 2016 to September 2023, responsible for the coordination of nuclear research and education across The University of Manchester, where he is now a Professor of Radiochemistry. Francis is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Chemistry and Member of the Institute of Strategic Studies.There were six internal data breaches recorded during 2022/23, five of which were investigated and classed as minor, non-reportable incidents. One incident was initially reported to the Information Commissioner’s Office; however, it was ultimately confirmed that no personal data had been compromised and therefore no further action was required.