§ Mr. Skeetasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will state the total amount spent to date on nuclear installations, including auxiliary works and research facilities, at Dounreay, the amount of power transmitted to the grid, the value of radio isotopes produced during the past year, the number of scientific and other staff at present working on the site and the total salary and wage bill for the past year.
§ Mr. HoggThe total capital sum spent on all the Atomic Energy Authority's nuclear installations, auxiliary works and research facilities at Dounreay, but excluding hostels and housing, is £28½5 million up to 31st March, 1964. The amount of power exported to the National grid to the same date is about 24 million kilowatt hours. No commercial quantities of radio-isotopes have been made. The total number of employees is about 2,500 and the total salary and wage bill for the last year was £2,675,000.