Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)
Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many breaches of (a) physical and (b) cyber security there were at Sellafield in each year since 2015.
Answered by Andrew Bowie - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
I will write to the hon. Member on this matter, and place a copy of my letter in the Library of the House.
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)
Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many times a member of the Civil Nuclear Constabulary was referred to Prevent in each year since 2018.
Answered by Andrew Bowie - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
There were no referrals.
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)
Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many (a) officers and (b) other staff left the Civil Nuclear Constabulary in each year since 2015; and what the leaving rate was in each of those years.
Answered by Andrew Bowie - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
Year | Combined Staff/Officer Headcount as at Feb (17257) | Total Leavers in FY | % Leavers in FY | Total Leavers in FY | % Leavers in FY | % Leavers in FY |
2014/15 | 1533 | 86 | 6.7% | 38 | 15.3% | 8.1% |
2015/16 | 1586 | 79 | 6.0% | 26 | 9.6% | 6.6% |
2016/17 | 1623 | 112 | 8.6% | 43 | 13.1% | 9.6% |
2017/18 | 1589 | 149 | 11.5% | 27 | 9.2% | 11.1% |
2018/19 | 1598 | 109 | 8.4% | 28 | 9.5% | 8.6% |
2019/20 | 1545 | 188 | 14.9% | 45 | 15.7% | 15.1% |
2020/21 | 1638 | 99 | 7.5% | 25 | 7.8% | 7.6% |
2021/22 | 1620 | 90 | 7.0% | 24 | 7.3% | 7.0% |
2022/23 | 1602 | 116 | 9.1% | 35 | 10.8% | 9.4% |
2023/24 | 1624 | 132 | 10.3% | 37 | 10.6% | 10.4% |
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)
Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many people were serving in the Civil Nuclear Constabulary on 20 February in each year since 2015.
Answered by Andrew Bowie - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
Financial Year | Total Combined Staff/Officer Headcount as at Feb (17257) |
2014/15 | 1533 |
2015/16 | 1586 |
2016/17 | 1623 |
2017/18 | 1589 |
2018/19 | 1598 |
2019/20 | 1545 |
2020/21 | 1638 |
2021/22 | 1620 |
2022/23 | 1602 |
2023/24 | 1624 |
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)
Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many security inspections were carried out by the Office for Nuclear Regulation in each year since 2015.
Answered by Andrew Bowie - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) has carried out 1583 security inspections over the period January 2015 to end December 2023. The below table details the number of security inspections for each year over this period.
Year | Number of ONR Security Inspections |
2015 | 240 |
2016 | 197 |
2017 | 220 |
2018 | 146 |
2019 | 169 |
2020 | 144 |
2021 | 136 |
2022 | 178 |
2023 | 153 |
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)
Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many (a) minor, (b) moderate and (c) major incident notification forms were submitted to the Office for Nuclear Regulation in each year since 2015.
Answered by Andrew Bowie - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
The Office for Nuclear Regulation's (ONR) incident notification process requires dutyholders to state their judgement on the significance of an incident as major, moderate and minor in an initial incident notification form. Incidents could relate to safety, nuclear security and/or safeguards.
This categorisation is the dutyholders’ initial perspective when they first reported the incident. This means that a “major incident notification form” does not necessarily align with a “major incident”. ONR’s guidance is that the dutyholders should use the plain English interpretations of the words and their judgement on the significance of the incident. ONR inspectors use the dutyholders’ perspective as one aspect of the diverse information that informs their judgements on the significance of incidents.
ONR reports each financial year on the number of incident forms it has received, including the dutyholders’ initial perspective on incident significance, in annex 3 of the Chief Nuclear Inspector’s Annual Report on Great Britain’s Nuclear Industry 2022/23 (onr.org.uk).
Summary of dutyholders’ reports received 2015 to present:
Financial Year | Minor | Moderate | Major |
2015/16 | 300 | 11 | 2 |
2016/17 | 514 | 33 | 2 |
2017/18 | 571 | 60 | 1 |
2018/19 | 578 | 50 | 1 |
2019/20 | 707 | 39 | 4 |
2020/21 | 642 | 57 | 1 |
2021/22 | 855 | 47 | 3 |
2022/23 | 644 | 82 | 5 |
2023/24* | 491 | 60 | 3 |
*up to 28/02/2024
Source: ONR Information management system