Asked by: George Kerevan (Scottish National Party - East Lothian)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether it is his policy that the UK will remain part of the European Community Urgent Radiological Information Exchange after the UK leaves the EU.
Answered by Jesse Norman
The Government is assessing the legal and policy implications of the public’s vote to leave the EU. This assessment includes implications for the UK’s membership of the European Atomic Energy Community and participation in the European Community Urgent Radiological Information Exchange.
Asked by: George Kerevan (Scottish National Party - East Lothian)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the implications are for UK membership of the European Atomic Energy Community of the UK's decision to leave the EU.
Answered by Jesse Norman
The Government is assessing the legal and policy implications of the public’s vote to leave the EU. This assessment includes implications for the UK’s membership of the European Atomic Energy Community and participation in the European Community Urgent Radiological Information Exchange.
Asked by: George Kerevan (Scottish National Party - East Lothian)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether there is any involvement of China National Nuclear Corporation as a stakeholder in the construction or ownership of the Hinkley Point C reactor.
Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
This is a commercial matter for EDF Energy.
Any company involved in the UK civil nuclear sector must meet the robust requirements of our regulatory regime.