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LSBUD believes that it has already achieved many of the aims of NUAR, and it is more cost effective. It has been in place for more than 20 years; it includes data from more than 150 asset owners and is used by 250,000 UK digging contractors and individuals. Its view is that the Government and NUAR are not currently working effectively with it and other industry actors and that, without aligning with proven industry best practice, NUAR poses a number of serious risks including open-ended costs and unclear benefits. It believes that, without a plan to work more closely with LSBUD, as the key industry representative, NUAR risks providing a poorer service than that currently on offer, potentially creating more accidental strikes of key network infrastructure.