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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what contingency plans his Department has in place for a liability being incurred by a nuclear operator under the Paris Convention on Third Party Liability in the Field of Nuclear Energy.

The Nuclear Installations Act 1965 implements the requirements of the Paris Convention into UK legislation. Under this Act civil nuclear operators are required to have sufficient financial coverage in place to meet their nuclear third party liability obligations to victims.

The UK is also party to the Brussels Supplementary Convention which places additional liabilities on civil nuclear operators. Any liability incurred above these levels would be handled initially by pooled international funds and then by the Government.