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

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether a reciprocal notification system will be established to ensure that the UK is informed of any dangerous experiments, as defined in the Euratom Treaty, undertaken by Euratom member states following withdrawal from the Euratom Treaty.

Protecting the public and ensuring the highest standards of nuclear safety will always be top priorities for the Government, the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) and industry. The UK has a robust and well established domestic civil nuclear safety regime, and this will remain in place as we leave Euratom. We will continue to apply the international standards on nuclear safety as agreed by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and will remain part of the IAEA’s nuclear emergency notification and response system, which includes Euratom member states.

As stated in the Government’s Written Ministerial Statement on Euratom on 11 January 2018, the UK will be seeking a close association with Euratom. In negotiating such an association the Government will seek to maintain close and effective cooperation with Euratom on nuclear safety.