Government Decontamination Service (GDS)
The information below gives an overview of the work that GDS does. It shows, separately, the business functions they do, the customer segments they serve and the strategic priorities they contribute to.
- Type of body
- Executive Agency
- CEO (or chairman)
- Robert Bettley-Smith
- Website
- GDS website
- Telephone
- 08458 501 323
- Link to annual report
- Annual Report
- Number of employees
- 26
- Annual turnover
- £3,200,000
- Body’s own objectives
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- To provide high quality advice and guidance to responsible authorities during their contingency planning for Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear (CBRN) and significant hazardous materials (HAZMAT) incidents and during actual incidents, and regularly help validate and test the arrangements that are in place across the UK;
- To work with specialist suppliers and advisers to ensure that responsible authorities have drawn on the expertise of companies in the private sector to carry out decontamination operations;
- To work with research establishments and specialist suppliers to improve decontamination technologies and capabilities;
- To be the eyes and ears of government in assessing the national decontamination capability.
- Governance structure
- Ministerial Board with and Ownership Board
- Corporate owner
- Anne Sharp , Climate Change Group
- Corporate customer
- Anne Sharp, Climate Change Group
- Defra’s strategic priorities
(The body contributes to all the priorities listed below) - Climate change and energy
Sustainable consumption and production - Direct customers
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- Primary producers (including farmers and growers)
- Extractive industry
- Energy industry
- Manufacturing
- Waste industry
- Non-food growers
- Food processing businesses
- Food wholesalers and retailers
- Support businesses
- Economic and social enterprise
- Influence groups
- Public bodies
- Business functions
- Operations
- Emergency operations/contingencies
- Research
- Scientific risk assessment
- Applied research
- Advice and Publicity
- Information and facilitation
- Campaigns/publicity/promotions/awareness
- Corporate systems
- HR
- Finance and procurement
- IT
The information contained in these pages is correct to the best of our knowledge as of 23 June 2008 and will be updated at regular intervals. If any information is incorrect or needs updating, please contact drt@defra.gsi.gov.uk.
Page last modified: 23 June 2008