Assurance of the consolidation process

3.17  The NDA Board was given only the executive summary of the full business case for the Magnox competition. NDA Board members told us they were not fully apprised of the risks concerning consolidation and therefore did not fully challenge them.

3.18  The NDA's assurance director commissioned three reviews of the consolidation process (Figure 14 on page 42). The first of these, in December 2015, flagged the risk that CFP would miss the revised deadline. These reviews were shared with the programme's SRO and the CFO, but the Board was only informed of the findings of the third review, in June 2016.