Apr. 24 2024
Source Page: Defra: workforce management information March 2024Found: DepartmentDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroCivil Nuclear
Mentions:
1: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) We will always keep a very close eye on how we ensure a constant at-sea nuclear deterrent. - Speech Link
2: Deidre Brock (SNP - Edinburgh North and Leith) My written questions this week have uncovered another worrying increase in nuclear safety events at nuclear - Speech Link
Asked by: Caroline Lucas (Green Party - Brighton, Pavilion)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the cost of the Defence Nuclear Enterprise for the 2022-23 financial year.
Answered by James Cartlidge - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
The definition of the Defence Nuclear Enterprise (DNE) and scope of the associated nuclear ringfenced budget was agreed during financial year 2023-24. Prior to the estimated cost for 2023-24 being reported in supplementary estimates in February 2024, total DNE costs (within this definition) had never been reported, as activities are spread across different budgetary areas of the Department.
Apr. 23 2024
Source Page: Prime Minister’s defence speech in Warsaw: 23 April 2024Found: Russia has already poisoned people on British soil with chemical weapons.
Found: and other weapons programmes (see below, section 3).
Oral Evidence Apr. 23 2024
Inquiry: Defence in the Grey ZoneFound: including just facts about their “facts” —for example, facts about how, when Ukraine gave up its nuclear
Apr. 23 2024
Source Page: Defending BritainFound: But as our adversaries strengthen their ties, sharing weapons, technology, and tactics, the United Kingdom
Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 6 December 2023 to Question 4035 on Veterans: Radiation Exposure, whether she has had discussions with Cabinet colleagues on the preparation of an instrument under the terms of section 3 of the Public Records Act 1958 to permanently retain the (a) ES and (b) AB series of files that were withdrawn from the National Archives in 2018.
Answered by Julia Lopez - Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)
Instruments under the terms of section 3 of the Public Records Act 1958 do not permit the permanent retention of records that have been selected for transfer to The National Archives. Instead, retained records must be reviewed by the Department after a maximum period of 10 years.
The review of the AB and ES files relating to the UK’s historic nuclear weapons programme is ongoing. The Ministry of Defence published an update on its review in January 2024, which can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/review-of-nuclear-archive-records/review-of-nuclear-archive-records-update-january-2024
Apr. 22 2024
Source Page: I. List of ministerial responsibilities. 88p. II. List of non-ministerial departments and executive agencies. 22p. III. Letter dated 19/04/2024 from Alex Burghart MP to the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee regarding documents for deposit, and copying them for deposit in the House libraries. 1p.Found: Commonwealth and Development Office Andrew BOWIE MP Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Nuclear
Apr. 19 2024
Source Page: G7 Non-Proliferation Directors Group statement, April 2024Found: Russia’s irresponsible nuclear rhetoric and its announced deployment of nuclear weapons in Belarus are