Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what support UK Trade and Investment has given to (a) the Nuclear Industry Association and (b) private nuclear companies to participate in trade missions it organised or supported in the last five years.

The data below details the support given since the establishment of the UKTI Events and Missions Team in 2012; to gather information from further back would incur disproportionate costs.

Since 2012 UKTI has supported, 74 unique private nuclear companies on nine outward trade missions at a total cost of £63,500. The details are:

2012

April- nuclear decommissioning to Japan

November- nuclear decommissioning and waste management to Korea

November- nuclear decommissioning and waste management to Japan

2013

October-general nuclear mission-Korea

2014

January-mission to Korea Atomic Industrial Forum January-mission to UK-China Civil Nuclear July-mission to Nuclear Dialogue-Japan September-mission to Radiex-Japan

2015

November-mission to Taiwan

The NIA has participated in three events, Japan in April 2012; Korea in November 2012 and UK-China in January 2014.