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101072

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2014
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Radioactive Materials: Transport
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how his Department has implemented the relevant recommendations from Exercise Senator in 2011 on nuclear accident emergencies.
	tabling member constituency	Newport West
	tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
	uin	212073
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p>Exercise Senator 2011 tested the multi-agency response to an incident involving a UK nuclear weapon convoy travelling in Scotland and the simulated release of radioactive material. The Ministry of Defence is the lead Government Department responsible for emergencies involving defence nuclear assets (other than an emergency arising as a result of a terrorist event where the Home Office is appointed as lead).</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Defence works closely with devolved administrations (Scotland in this exercise) and local responders to ensure an effective coordinated response. The central government’s concept of operations sets out UK arrangements for responding to and recovering from emergencies.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/192425/CONOPs_incl_revised_chapter_24_Apr-13.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/192425/CONOPs_incl_revised_chapter_24_Apr-13.pdf</a></p><p>My Department is responsible for providing the Government liaison function below the national level in England only. The Ministry of Defence invited my Department to observe exercise play at their main building where it considered cross border issues.</p><p>The all agency exercise report (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/85882/exercise_senator_2011_all_agency_report.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/85882/exercise_senator_2011_all_agency_report.pdf</a>) identified recommendations in exercise planning and operational, strategic and media play. There were no recommendations identified for my Department to implement.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 03/11/2014 16:48:13 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

449792

	registered interest
	date	02/02/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Radioactive Materials: Transport
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whose decision it was to cease displaying radioactive material hazard signs on vehicles carrying special nuclear materials.
	tabling member constituency	Midlothian
	tabling member printed	Owen Thompson
	uin	25316
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2016 answer text <p>The Defence Equipment and Support organisation decided to cease displaying radioactive material hazard warning signs on vehicles carrying special nuclear materials in July 2011. Before implementing this decision we sought legal advice and notified the regulator. The change was implemented in 2012 in anticipation of the transition to a single type of vehicle for the transport of both nuclear weapons and special nuclear materials and was needed in order to maintain the policy to neither confirm nor deny the presence of nuclear weapons. No changes were required to operating arrangements as a result of this decision. The Ministry of Defence's arrangements for the safe transport of defence nuclear materials include the provision of information to the emergency services in the event of an incident; this does not rely on displaying radioactive material hazard warning signs.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 25317 25332 25333 25334 question first answered 09/02/2016 16:23:47 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	4482 label Biography information for Owen Thompson

449793

	registered interest
	date	02/02/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Radioactive Materials: Transport
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on what date the decision to cease displaying radioactive material hazard signs on vehicles carrying special nuclear materials was made.
	tabling member constituency	Midlothian
	tabling member printed	Owen Thompson
	uin	25317
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2016 answer text <p>The Defence Equipment and Support organisation decided to cease displaying radioactive material hazard warning signs on vehicles carrying special nuclear materials in July 2011. Before implementing this decision we sought legal advice and notified the regulator. The change was implemented in 2012 in anticipation of the transition to a single type of vehicle for the transport of both nuclear weapons and special nuclear materials and was needed in order to maintain the policy to neither confirm nor deny the presence of nuclear weapons. No changes were required to operating arrangements as a result of this decision. The Ministry of Defence's arrangements for the safe transport of defence nuclear materials include the provision of information to the emergency services in the event of an incident; this does not rely on displaying radioactive material hazard warning signs.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 25316 25332 25333 25334 question first answered 09/02/2016 16:23:47 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	4482 label Biography information for Owen Thompson

449797

	registered interest
	date	02/02/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Radioactive Materials: Transport
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what changes to operating arrangements were made as a result of the decision to cease displaying radioactive material hazard signs on vehicles carrying special nuclear materials to ensure that relevant information is available to emergency services in the event of an accident.
	tabling member constituency	Midlothian
	tabling member printed	Owen Thompson
	uin	25332
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2016 answer text <p>The Defence Equipment and Support organisation decided to cease displaying radioactive material hazard warning signs on vehicles carrying special nuclear materials in July 2011. Before implementing this decision we sought legal advice and notified the regulator. The change was implemented in 2012 in anticipation of the transition to a single type of vehicle for the transport of both nuclear weapons and special nuclear materials and was needed in order to maintain the policy to neither confirm nor deny the presence of nuclear weapons. No changes were required to operating arrangements as a result of this decision. The Ministry of Defence's arrangements for the safe transport of defence nuclear materials include the provision of information to the emergency services in the event of an incident; this does not rely on displaying radioactive material hazard warning signs.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 25316 25317 25333 25334 question first answered 09/02/2016 16:23:47 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	4482 label Biography information for Owen Thompson

449798

	registered interest
	date	02/02/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Radioactive Materials: Transport
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for what reasons the decision was taken to cease displaying radioactive material hazard signs on vehicles carrying special nuclear materials.
	tabling member constituency	Midlothian
	tabling member printed	Owen Thompson
	uin	25333
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2016 answer text <p>The Defence Equipment and Support organisation decided to cease displaying radioactive material hazard warning signs on vehicles carrying special nuclear materials in July 2011. Before implementing this decision we sought legal advice and notified the regulator. The change was implemented in 2012 in anticipation of the transition to a single type of vehicle for the transport of both nuclear weapons and special nuclear materials and was needed in order to maintain the policy to neither confirm nor deny the presence of nuclear weapons. No changes were required to operating arrangements as a result of this decision. The Ministry of Defence's arrangements for the safe transport of defence nuclear materials include the provision of information to the emergency services in the event of an incident; this does not rely on displaying radioactive material hazard warning signs.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 25316 25317 25332 25334 question first answered 09/02/2016 16:23:48 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	4482 label Biography information for Owen Thompson

449799

	registered interest
	date	02/02/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Radioactive Materials: Transport
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what advice his Department sought from where on the decision as to whether to cease displaying radioactive material hazard signs on vehicles carrying special nuclear materials.
	tabling member constituency	Midlothian
	tabling member printed	Owen Thompson
	uin	25334
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2016 answer text <p>The Defence Equipment and Support organisation decided to cease displaying radioactive material hazard warning signs on vehicles carrying special nuclear materials in July 2011. Before implementing this decision we sought legal advice and notified the regulator. The change was implemented in 2012 in anticipation of the transition to a single type of vehicle for the transport of both nuclear weapons and special nuclear materials and was needed in order to maintain the policy to neither confirm nor deny the presence of nuclear weapons. No changes were required to operating arrangements as a result of this decision. The Ministry of Defence's arrangements for the safe transport of defence nuclear materials include the provision of information to the emergency services in the event of an incident; this does not rely on displaying radioactive material hazard warning signs.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 25316 25317 25332 25333 question first answered 09/02/2016 16:23:48 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	4482 label Biography information for Owen Thompson

452390

	registered interest
	date	11/02/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Radioactive Materials: Transport
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) physical state, (b) mass quantity and (c) total radiological quantity in Becquerels was of Defence Nuclear Materials transported or carried by fixed wing aircraft or helicopter in the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
	tabling member printed	David Simpson
	uin	27164
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2016 answer text <p>In the last five years, 23 flights carrying Defence Nuclear Materials (DNM) were undertaken. All flights were between the UK and the United States on fixed wing aircraft under the control of UK Armed Forces. No such flights passed over Scotland, or involved the use of helicopters.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>I am withholding details of the physical state, mass and radiological quantity of DNM transported as disclosure would or would be likely to prejudice national security.</p><p> </p><p>The transport of DNM is carried out to the highest standard in accordance with stringent safety regulations. In over 50 years of transporting DNM in the UK, there has never been an incident that has posed any radiation hazard to the public or to the environment.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 27157 27158 27160 27165 question first answered 24/02/2016 15:28:34 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson

452391

	registered interest
	date	11/02/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Radioactive Materials: Transport
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many flights were undertaken in fixed wing aircraft or helicopters to transport or carry Defence Nuclear Materials in the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Argyll and Bute
	tabling member printed	Brendan O'Hara
	uin	27165
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2016 answer text <p>In the last five years, 23 flights carrying Defence Nuclear Materials (DNM) were undertaken. All flights were between the UK and the United States on fixed wing aircraft under the control of UK Armed Forces. No such flights passed over Scotland, or involved the use of helicopters.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>I am withholding details of the physical state, mass and radiological quantity of DNM transported as disclosure would or would be likely to prejudice national security.</p><p> </p><p>The transport of DNM is carried out to the highest standard in accordance with stringent safety regulations. In over 50 years of transporting DNM in the UK, there has never been an incident that has posed any radiation hazard to the public or to the environment.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 27157 27158 27160 27164 question first answered 24/02/2016 15:28:35 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	4371 label Biography information for Brendan O'Hara

452394

	registered interest
	date	11/02/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Radioactive Materials: Transport
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the country of origin was of the fixed wing aircraft or helicopter in each flight transporting or carrying Defence Nuclear Materials in the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Argyll and Bute
	tabling member printed	Brendan O'Hara
	uin	27158
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2016 answer text <p>In the last five years, 23 flights carrying Defence Nuclear Materials (DNM) were undertaken. All flights were between the UK and the United States on fixed wing aircraft under the control of UK Armed Forces. No such flights passed over Scotland, or involved the use of helicopters.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>I am withholding details of the physical state, mass and radiological quantity of DNM transported as disclosure would or would be likely to prejudice national security.</p><p> </p><p>The transport of DNM is carried out to the highest standard in accordance with stringent safety regulations. In over 50 years of transporting DNM in the UK, there has never been an incident that has posed any radiation hazard to the public or to the environment.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 27157 27160 27164 27165 question first answered 24/02/2016 15:28:34 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	4371 label Biography information for Brendan O'Hara

452395

	registered interest
	date	11/02/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Radioactive Materials: Transport
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the country of (a) origin and (b) destination was of each flight in a fixed wing aircraft or helicopter carrying or transporting Defence Nuclear Materials in the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Argyll and Bute
	tabling member printed	Brendan O'Hara
	uin	27157
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2016 answer text <p>In the last five years, 23 flights carrying Defence Nuclear Materials (DNM) were undertaken. All flights were between the UK and the United States on fixed wing aircraft under the control of UK Armed Forces. No such flights passed over Scotland, or involved the use of helicopters.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>I am withholding details of the physical state, mass and radiological quantity of DNM transported as disclosure would or would be likely to prejudice national security.</p><p> </p><p>The transport of DNM is carried out to the highest standard in accordance with stringent safety regulations. In over 50 years of transporting DNM in the UK, there has never been an incident that has posed any radiation hazard to the public or to the environment.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 27158 27160 27164 27165 question first answered 24/02/2016 15:28:34 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	4371 label Biography information for Brendan O'Hara