- Date released: 9 January 2025
- Request Number: 202412064
- Release of information under: FOI
Information requested
Please can I obtain copies of all correspondence - including emails, letters, minutes of meetings and any relevant attachments - between January 2022 to present - related to the closure of the Clifton Marsh Landfill to radioactive waste due to issues around the nuclear liabilities regime.
Please can this include:
- Correspondence between the Office for Nuclear Regulation and Suez (the operator of the landfill)
- and correspondence between civil servants from the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (or formally the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy) and the Office for Nuclear Regulation
- Correspondence between the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and the Office for Nuclear Regulation.
Information released
We confirm that under s.1 of the FOIA, we hold some of the information specified in your request.
Please find enclosed one email relating to the summary of proposals on the low level waste (LLW) exclusion in relation to the Paris Brussels Conventions on nuclear third party liability (NTPL) from the then Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS), now the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ).
Following a search of our records, we confirm we do not hold any correspondence between ONR and Suez, or the Nuclear Decommission Authority (NDA), related to the closure of the Clifton Marsh Landfill Site and on radioactive waste or the nuclear liabilities regime.
Under our duty to provide advice and assistance under s.16 of the FOIA, please note that Clifton Marsh Landfill Site is not within ONR’s regulatory remit as it is not a nuclear licensed site.
We therefore advise that you may wish to contact the Environment Agency (EA) as the environmental regulator and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) as the Radiation (Emergency, Preparedness and Public Information) Regulations 2019 (REPPIR) regulator for Clifton Marsh.
Section 40 FOIA – Personal information
We have removed some information from the attached document as it is personal data. This consists of names, job titles and contact details. Release of each of this type of information could identify the individual either directly or indirectly. The personal data has been withheld using the exemption s.40(2)[1] of the FOIA.
Release of the information would breach principle (a) of GDPR (lawfulness, fairness and transparency) on the grounds that there is no lawful basis to process this data. In addition, releasing this personal data would also breach principle (b) of GDPR (purpose limitation) as the data was provided for the purposes of email exchanges.
Exemptions applied
N/A
PIT (Public Interest Test) if applicable
N/A