Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate he has made of the cost to public purse of (a) procuring IT and (b) recruitment to set up a domestic nuclear safeguards regime.

The cost estimates provided in the answer to Question UIN 121903 include procurement of a safeguards IT system and recruitment and training of safeguards inspectors, together with strengthening the Office for Nuclear Regulator’s institutional capacity to deliver the project.