Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 25 October 2017 to Question 108904, what estimate he has made of the level of funding required for the Office for Nuclear Regulation to set up a domestic civil nuclear safeguards regime.
Current estimates are as set out in the Explanatory Notes to the Nuclear Safeguards Bill introduced on 11 October 2017 (Bill 109) which are available in the Vote Office and also on the Parliamentary website. The relevant section is titled ‘Financial implications of the Bill’ (paragraph 49).