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

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists' announcement on 26 January setting the 2017 time of the Doomsday Clock at two-and-a-half minutes to midnight; and what action they intend to take in response.

We have made no assessment of recent changes to the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists’ Doomsday Clock and therefore do not plan to take any action.