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

To ask Her Majesty's Government how the UK’s requirements under the Espoo Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context will be met following withdrawal from the Euratom Treaty, noting that compliance with the requirement under Article 37 of the Treaty for Member States to submit to the Commission general data concerning any plan for the disposal of radioactive waste has previously been used to demonstrate that the UK is fulfilling those requirements.

The UK’s obligations under the Espoo convention are not met through compliance with Article 37 of the Euratom Treaty. They are met through the UK’s planning regime, in particular through the Environmental Impact Assessment and related processes.