§ Mr. FlynnTo ask the Secretary of State for Energy, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Newport, West of 4 March,Official Report, column 17, how much of the plutonium arising from foreign spent fuel to which he refers was reprocessed prior to 1973; and what safeguards applied to civil nuclear materials at Sellafield prior to United Kingdom accession to the European Atomic Energy Community on 1 January 1973.
§ Mr. Heathcoat-AmoryApproximately half a tonne of the plutonium referred to by the hon. Member was reprocessed before 1973. Prior to this date, civil nuclear material at Sellafield was subject to the United Kingdom's own system of accountancy and control.