§ Mr. AllenTo ask the Secretary of State for Energy (1) from which Government account money is provided for the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority commitment to the SIR consortium; and if the money is a grant or loan;
(2) how much research funding has been allocated for the years in which figures are available to the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority to support its role as a member of the Safe Integral Reactor consortium;
(3) how much the SIR consortium is bidding for from the United States Department of Energy; and for what purpose;
(4) what rate of return the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority is budgeting for in its commercial venture as part of the SIR consortium;
(5) when and where he expects the first SIR to be built;
(6) when the SIR consortium was established; who are its original and its current members; and how much each have contributed to its income.
§ Mr. Michael SpicerAs I stated in my reply of 17 July at col.52, the UKAEA will be using some of its own pre-contract research funds to support its role as a member of the SIR consortium, whose other members are Rolls-Royce and Associates, Stone and Webster and Combustion Engineering. The terms of the UKAEA's involvement in the SIR consortium are commercially confidential.