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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, by what year the Office for Nuclear Regulation is planning to deliver a Euratom-equivalent UK State System for Accountability for and Control of nuclear material.

It is my assessment, based on current progress, that the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) would be in a position to deliver to international standards by March 2019 and will then move to Euratom standards as soon as possible thereafter. The speed with which the ONR is able to move from international standards to a domestic nuclear safeguards regime that dependent on negotiations with the EU including negotiations on future co-operation with Euratom on the UK’s safeguards.