HC Deb 22 October 1992 vol 212 cc347-8W
Mr. Llew Smith

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what communications he has had with the Federal German Environment Ministry as regards to the acceptability to Germany of implementing the radiological equivalence plan for the return of radioactive wastes arising from reprocessing as announced to Parliament on 2 May 1986,Official Report, column 500.

Mr. Maclean

The question of the substitution of radioactive wastes remains under consideration. The views of the German government on any proposals made by British Nuclear Fuels plc will be a matter to be taken up as appropriate with the German Government by BNFL's customers.

Mr. Llew Smith

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment pursuant to his reply of 14 July,Official Report, columns 643–4, if he has now received from the Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee its views on the implementation of the radiological equivalence proposals for the return of radioactive wastes after reprocessing.

Mr. Maclean

Yes, and I am considering the Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee's report.