Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what role he plans for the UK to have in securing uranium and uranium fuel in Iran.

The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action agreed between the E3+3 and Iran on 14 July includes a limit on Iran’s stockpile of low enriched uranium, which will be monitored under IAEA safeguards. Iran’s excess low enriched uranium will be down blended to natural uranium or shipped out of Iran to Russia in exchange for natural uranium; the details will be for Iran and Russia to agree. This process will be monitored by the International Atomic Energy Agency.