The Government has issued a Written Ministerial Statement giving notice that the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy intend to "seek an advance from the Contingencies Fund in the amount of £2,275,000 for 2017/18 to provide financial cover to the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) to enable ONR to establish a new domestic civil nuclear safeguards regime ahead of the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union and Euratom on 29th March 2019."