Tony Cooper

Tony Cooper is a member of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and a former chairman of the Nuclear Industry Association. Described as a ‘former senior Trades Union Official with nuclear industry connections’, he was appointed to the NIA in July 2002. [1] For over ten years Cooper was both Joint General Secretary of Prospect and Chairman of the Electricity Supply Trades Union Council. He was also Chairman of the Trade Unions for Safe Nuclear Energy.

He is also a member of the Department of Trade and Industry’s Energy Advisory Panel, a ministerial appointment for which he receives remuneration of £1,000 a year. [2] [3]

He is the father of Housing and Planning Minister Yvette Cooper and the father-in-law of key Treasury advisor and MP Ed Balls.