Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will take additional steps to ensure the nuclear preparedness of England’s acute hospital trusts.

Acute, specialist, mental health and community National Health Service providers are required to have planning arrangement in place for the management of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear incidents. Assurance of these arrangements are sought as part of the NHS England emergency preparedness, resilience and response annual assurance process against core standards.