Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when the Defence Nuclear Safety Regulator's annual assurance report for 2013 will be published; and what the reasons are for the time taken to publish that report.

The Defence Nuclear Safety Regulator's (DNSR) Annual Report for 2013-14 is programmed to be published on the gov.uk website in February 2015. The report's Executive Summary has already been published on gov.uk as part of the Ministry of Defence's Health, Safety and Environmental Protection Annual Assurance Report for Financial Year 2013-14, and is available at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/368727/20141020-MOD-AnnualHS-EP-AssuranceReport-2013-14-FINAL-U.pdf