The purpose of the Committee is: to give independent advice, based upon its remit and utilising the skills and expertise of its members to provide informed scrutiny of the available evidence to UK government and devolved administration ministers on the management of radioactive waste, arising from civil and, where relevant, defence nuclear programmes, including storage and disposal CoRWM’s objectives to ministers of the UK government and devolved administrations, Nuclear Decommissioning Authority ( NDA) and Radioactive Waste Management Ltd (RWM) on proposals, plans and programmes to deliver geological disposal, together with robust interim storage, for the UK’s higher activity radioactive waste