To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the review by Lord West on the protection of strategic infrastructure assessed potential vulnerabilities of (a) civil nuclear installations, (b) military nuclear sites and (c) the national electricity grid. (166326)

I refer the hon. Member to my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary’s statement of 14 November 2007, Official Report, columns 44-45 WS.

The review addressed the programme of work to protect the electricity sector and other parts of the critical national infrastructure. Lord West also considered the protective security framework for civil nuclear power stations, responsibility for which falls to the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform. However, the review did not address protective security for military nuclear sites, responsibility for which falls to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Defence.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department from which Government Departments the 160 counter-terrorism advisers she announced in her statement of 14 November 2007, Official Report, columns 667-72, on national security, will be sourced. (167387)

Counter-terrorism security advisers are employed by police forces.