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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what information his Department holds on when officials from the Office of Nuclear Regulation last met Sellafield trades union leaders from (a) Unite, (b) Prospect and (c) the GMB.

The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) met with safety representatives from the unions on 13 July 2016 as part of preparations for Sellafield’s Annual Regulatory Review. Union leaders were invited to attend and Prospect and GMB were represented at this meeting. ONR regularly interacts with union representatives from Unite, Prospect and the GMB as part of its normal regulatory business, including at site stakeholder and safety representative meetings. The most recent of these interactions attended by a senior Sellafield union representative (Prospect) was on 1 November.