2.9 As well as decommissioning activity, Sellafield Limited also carries out commercial operations, mainly fuel reprocessing. The Committee of Public Accounts (the Committee) highlighted in its February 2014 report that Sellafield Limited had rarely achieved its output targets for its reprocessing operations. It noted the Authority's explanation that the varying performance from year to year reflected the stretching targets it had set and the inherent fragility of the old reprocessing plants. In 2013-14, Sellafield Limited improved its performance on two of its reprocessing operations but achieved just over half of its target for highly active liquor vitrification. The Authority forecasts that in 2014-15, Sellafield Limited will exceed its vitrification target, and improve its performance on the previous year. However, due to outages at the vitrification plant, the target for 2014-15 was set much lower (Figure 4).