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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many inspectors have been appointed to carry out functions previously administered by Euratom since June 2016.

The Office for Nuclear Regulation’s (ONR) recruitment target for the first phase of the UK State System of Accounting for and Control of Nuclear Material project has been met, with 15 safeguards officers currently in place and undergoing training to become safeguards inspectors. ONR is confident it will have the necessary number of inspectors in place to enable the UK to meet its international safeguards, and non-proliferation, obligations when Euratom arrangements cease to apply in the UK.