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Services

• Find your local health protection team in England

  Get support from your local health protection team (HPT) to prevent and reduce the effect of diseases and chemical and radiation hazards

• Report a marine accident

  Report a marine accident by calling the MAIB reporting line on +44 (0)23 8023 2527 and then completing the accident report form.

• National security vetting

  The Cerberus e-veting system will deliver a faster, more effective and efficient national security vetting system.

• Report an accident or incident

  Use form RAIB N1 to report details of an accident or incident involving railway staff

• Form C18: Supplement for an application for a Recovery Order

  Form C18: Supplement for an application for a Recovery Order.

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Guidance and regulation

• Notifiable diseases and causative organisms: how to report

  Detailed guide

  1 May 2010

  Public Health England

• National security vetting: advice for people who are being vetted

  Guidance

  25 May 2018

  Cabinet Office and Government Security Profession

• Government baseline personnel security standard

  Guidance

  11 June 2018

  Cabinet Office, National security and intelligence, and Government Security Profession

• Fire safety risk assessment: 5-step checklist
  • Guidance
  • 5 June 2006
  • Home Office
• Fire safety risk assessment: offices and shops
  • Guidance
  • 5 June 2006
  • Home Office

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News and communications

17 October 2018 — News story

Funding released to make social sector homes safe

Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government

1. Letter to Grenfell United following concerns about the possibility of soil contamination: 15 October 2018
   • 16 October 2018
   • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
   • Correspondence
2. Real-time tracking for firefighter safety: apply for contracts
   • 15 October 2018
   • Innovate UK and UK Research and Innovation
   • News story
3. Fire door test: letter to Vista Panels
   • 4 October 2018
   • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
   • Correspondence
4. Fire door test: letter to Britdoors By System'
   • 4 October 2018
   • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
   • Correspondence

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Research and statistics

• Fire statistics incident level datasets
  • 18 October 2018
  • Home Office
  • Statistical data set
• Fire prevention and protection statistics, England, April 2017 to March 2018 
  • 18 October 2018
  • Home Office
  • Official statistics
• FIRE1202: previous data tables
  • 18 October 2018
  • Statistical data set
• FIRE1203: previous data tables
  • 18 October 2018
  • Statistical data set
• FIRE1305: previous data tables
  • 18 October 2018
  • Home Office
  • Statistical data set

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Policy papers and consultations

• Revised requirements for radiological protection: emergency preparedness and response 22 October 2018

  Ministry of Defence, Health and Safety Executive, and Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

  Consultation outcome

  Date closed 15 November 2017

• National Policy Statement for new nuclear above 1GW post 2025: siting criteria and process 20 July 2018

  Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

  Consultation outcome

  Date closed 15 March 2018

• GDA of Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy Ltd’s UK Advanced Boiling Water Reactor 25 June 2018

  Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales

  Consultation outcome

  Date closed 03 March 2017

• PACE Code F 2013
  • 31 July 2018
  • Home Office
  • Policy paper
• Euratom exit: factsheets
  • 18 June 2018
  • Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
  • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• Statement of the Nuclear Decommissioning Funding Account, 2017 to 2018
  • 13 September 2018
  • Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
  • Corporate report
• Radioactive Waste Management: Organisation Chart
  • 7 September 2018
  • Radioactive Waste Management
  • Transparency
• Nuclear Provision: explaining the cost of cleaning up Britain's nuclear legacy
  • 12 July 2018
  • Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
  • Corporate report
• Fire and rescue national framework: 2018 progress report
  • 10 July 2018
  • Home Office
  • Corporate report
• NDA Subject Access Request Procedure - Data Protection
  • 12 June 2018
  • Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
  • Corporate report

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Organisations

1. Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
2. Home Office
3. Ministry of Defence
4. Public Health England
5. Cabinet Office

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1. Department of Health & Social Care
2. Maritime & Coastguard Agency
3. CFRA
4. Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
5. Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
6. Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs
7. Foreign & Commonwealth Office
8. National security and intelligence
9. Department for Transport
10. Marine Management Organisation
11. Civil Nuclear Constabulary
12. Government Security Profession
13. Civil Nuclear Police Authority
14. HM Treasury
15. Department for Work & Pensions
16. Certification Officer
17. HM Courts & Tribunals Service
18. Northern Ireland Office
19. Office of the Secretary of State for Wales Swyddfa Ysgrifennydd Gwladol Cymru
20. The Oil and Pipelines Agency
21. Ministry of Justice
22. Nuclear Liabilities Financing Assurance Board
23. Defence Safety Authority
24. Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
25. Government Office for Science
26. Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
27. Animal & Plant Health Agency
28. Attorney General's Office
29. Border Force
30. Department for Education
31. Department for International Development
32. Government Actuary's Department
33. Government Legal Department
34. HM Revenue & Customs
35. Office for Product Safety & Standards
36. Office of Manpower Economics
37. Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland
38. Review Body on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration
39. Review Body on Senior Salaries
40. UK Export Finance
41. Valuation Office Agency

1. Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
2. Environment Agency
3. Committee on Radioactive Waste Management
4. Radioactive Waste Management
5. Marine Accident Investigation Branch
6. Sellafield Ltd
7. Military Aviation Authority
8. Rail Accident Investigation Branch
9. Defence Infrastructure Organisation
10. Air Accidents Investigation Branch
11. Defence Equipment and Support
12. Low Level Waste Repository Ltd
13. Ofsted
14. Innovate UK
15. Dounreay
16. Magnox Ltd
17. Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
18. Single Source Regulations Office
19. Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
20. Animals in Science Committee
21. Biometrics Commissioner
22. Industrial Injuries Advisory Council
23. Low Pay Commission
24. National Counter Terrorism Security Office
25. Social Security Advisory Committee
26. UK Hydrographic Office