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date	27/10/2014
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Nuclear Weapons
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps have been taken by the Scientific Advisory Group on Emergencies to implement recommendations arising from the 2011 Exercise Senator on nuclear accident emergencies.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	212045
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p>The Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) is convened only during an emergency, to coordinate and conduct peer reviews of scientific and technical advice in order to inform decision-making at the cross Government, national level.</p><p>National level recommendations and lessons identified from Ministry of Defence nuclear accident exercises such as SENATOR 2011, including any related to the SAGE, are drawn up through the Department of Energy and Climate Change-led Nuclear Emergency Planning and Response Programme.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 03/11/2014 17:57:32 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne previous answer version 25842 answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

101079

registered interest
date	27/10/2014
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Nuclear Weapons
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how his Department has implemented the recommendations from Exercise Senator in 2011 on nuclear accident emergencies.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	212042
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p>The Defence Nuclear Safety Regulator's (DNSR) assessment concluded that Exercise Senator 2011 achieved its stated objectives.</p><p>The DNSR assessment report contains five findings, three of which have been formally closed out. Work is in hand to address the remaining two findings.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 03/11/2014 18:00:47 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne previous answer version 25844 answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

101080

registered interest
date	27/10/2014
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Nuclear Weapons
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many nuclear weapons emergency exercises his Department's defence nuclear emergencies organisation has conducted since May 2010; and if he will publish on his Department's website the reports of such exercises.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	212043
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2014 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence and its contractors conduct nuclear weapons emergency exercises to ensure the continued safe operation of the nuclear deterrent programme at locations across the UK, including the Atomic Weapons Establishment and Her Majesty's Naval Base Clyde, and also in relation to the road convoy transport operation.</p><p>Between May 2010 and October 2014, 38 exercises were conducted. These included training exercises to test emergency plans and demonstration exercises. An Exercise Director's Post Exercise Report is issued for each such exercise, and a regulator's report is also issued for those exercises which are subject to formal assessment.</p><p>To publish all of these reports would require a lengthy review process that could be carried out only at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 04/11/2014 17:27:57 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne previous answer version 25848 answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn