Question follow-through · 87173
Radioactive Materials: Shipping
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans her Department has to (a) recover and (b) salvage any consignment of radioactive material in the event of the sinking of a vessel carrying radioactive cargo.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 31 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 4 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 6 Nov 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
31 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans her Department has to (a) recover and (b) salvage any consignment of radioactive material in the event of the sinking of a vessel carrying radioactive cargo.
4 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 Nov 2025
Answer published
Defra are the lead government department in England for the recovery from malicious and civil radiological and nuclear incidents. The preparations and response to these incidents is led by the Home Office and the Department for Energy Security and Net Zer...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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