§ Mr. Dempseyasked the Secretary of State for Energy what proposals he has for publishing in his Department's Fact Sheet Series information relating to the nuclear industry.
§ Mr. BennMy Department has today published a fact sheet describing the organisation of the nuclear industry in Great Britain and the way in which its operations are independently controlled in the interests of health safety and the environment. It includes sections on the formulation of nuclear policy, the various organisations and agencies concerned in the development of nuclear power, and the inter-relation between these bodies. In particular it describes the regulatory functions designed to ensure the safety of the industry, the people who work in it, and the public.
Sections on emergency arrangements, security, nuclear safeguards and nuclear insurance and compensation are also included. This is part of a series of fact sheets on energy subjects and the first in a series planned on nuclear topics. Fact sheets are freely available, on request, from the Department of Energy's 284W Library, and I have arranged for copies of today's nuclear fact sheet to be placed in the Libraries of both Houses.