§ Mr. FlynnTo ask the Secretary of State for Energy when his Department will publish its annual data on civil plutonium production stocks and exports.
§ Mr. Heathcoat-AmoryThe information requested was published yesterday and copies of the press release placed in the Library of the House.
§ Mr. FlynnTo ask the Secretary of State for Energy, pursuant to his answer of 8 July,Official Report, column 246, how many exports of plutonium in quantities less than a gramme have taken place in each year since 1979; to which countries the exports were made; for what purposes; and whether all exports were covered by nuclear safeguards.
§ Mr. Heathcoat-AmoryOwing to the volume of licence applications submitted for exports of plutonium in less than gramme quantities since 1979, this information could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Information on precise quantities of plutonium supplied to individual countries is commercially confidential.