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National Underground Asset Register

Commons · Question 100084 · Tabled 15 Dec 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · Official record

Answered 23 Dec 2025

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Asked by David Simmonds

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of integrating the National Underground Asset Register with existing safe digging services such as Linesearchbefore

Answer

Answered by Ian Murray, 23 Dec 2025

We have conducted a discovery project and testing phase to investigate the potential to broaden access to information held in NUAR, and through other channels, including via third-party access. The outputs of this will be communicated to the sector in due...