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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the timetable is for the completion of his Departments equality analysis commissioned in June 2017 of raising the retirement age for the Civil Nuclear Constabulary in line with the Public Service Pensions Act 2013.

Over the course of the last year I have had a number of productive meetings with the Civil Nuclear Police Authority, the Civil Nuclear Constabulary and the Civil Nuclear Police Federation on the issue of raising the CNC pension age. These have been of assistance in helping me exercise my statutory duty to understand the full equality impact of such an increase. I expect to be able to review the findings of the completed Equality Analysis during the summer. Subsequently I will discuss the way forward with interested parties.