§ Mr. MorganTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his answer of 16 April,Official Report, columns 455-56, what is the cost of decommissioning the AWE site in Llanishen that was taken into account in reaching the closure decision. [27327]
§ Mr. ArbuthnotThere is a long-standing convention of not announcing the detailed figures which subscribe to the overall cost of the defence nuclear programme. My Department, however, expects to spend some millions of pounds on the thorough decommissioning of the AWE site at Llanishen.