§ Mr. DafisTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence what information he has on the quantity of arms dumped at sea off the United Kingdom coast in each of the last five years, indicating the proportion dumped by the various armed services.
§ Mr. AitkenThe MoD does not dump redundant ammunition and stocks off the coast of the United Kingdom. The only dump site used for disposal at sea lies in the Atlantic some 400 miles off Lands End at a depth of some 4,500 m. The information requested is as follows:
tonnes 1988 1989 1990 1991 11992 Navy 3,000 280 882 114 2,750 Army 70 1,165 893 936 5,031 RAF 174 99 nil 43 624 Total 3,244 1,544 1,775 1,093 8,405 1 Figures given for 1992 reflect the total tonnage planned in this year's sea dumping programme.