HC Deb 27 November 1987 vol 123 cc355-6W
Mr. Flynn

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy if he has had any communication with his counterparts in(a) Belgium, (b) France or (c) the Federal Republic of Germany about recent evidence that plutonium from the safeguarded reprocessing plants in the European Economic Community has been sold on the black market in Khartoum, Sudan; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Michael Spicer

I refer the hon. Member to the answer given by my hon. Friend the Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office to the hon. Member for Meironnydd Nant Conwy (Dr. Thomas) on 19 November at columns617–18.

Dr. Thomas

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy whether bilateral or international atomic energy agency safeguards have been applied to all plutonium originating in Central Electricity Generating Boards or South of Scotland Electricity Generating Board reactors and subsequently exported to the United States of America.

Mr. Michael Spicer

[holding answer 2 November 1987]I refer the hon. Member to my reply to the hon. Member for Newport, West (Mr. Flynn) on 21 October 1987 at columns749–50.

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