Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 88124

Radioactive Materials: Shipping

Tabled: 4 November 2025
Answered: 11 November 2025

Question

Siân Berry

Green PartyBrighton Pavilion

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans her Department has to (a) contain, (b) clean up and (c) remediate radioactivity in the (i) air and (ii) sea as a result of (A) potential incidents and (B) accidents involvin

Answer

Emma Hardy
Defra is the lead Government department for remediating releases of radiological and nuclear materials in England. Containment of the source may be possible but would depend on a wide range of factors. If radioactive contamination from the air or sea was ...

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