Owen Thompson – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Defence

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Owen Thompson on 2016-02-24.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the Government has issued iodine tablets to households in the last five years.

Penny Mordaunt

Plans developed under the Radiation (Emergency Preparedness and Public Information) Regulations 2001 (REPPIR) to protect the public in the unlikely event of a radiation emergency involving an operational nuclear reactor, include arrangements for the issue of stable iodine tablets. The arrangements for issuing the iodine tablets are determined at the local level and include, in some cases, the pre-distribution to households in the detailed planning area.