HC Deb 28 January 1997 vol 289 cc195-6W
Mr. Simpson

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will update his answer of 8 March 1995,Official Report, column 253, on the number of United States personnel stationed in the United Kingdom and the number of United Kingdom personnel stationed in the United States and their locations. [12662]

Mr. Arbuthnot

There are now no US employees stationed in the UK under the terms of the 1958 agreement. Four US employees are in the UK as part of the Polaris sales agreement, as amended for Trident; they are located as follows:

  • Bristol: 3
  • Barrow: 1

There are five British personnel stationed in the USA as part of the 1958 agreement and they are located in the British embassy, Washington DC; in addition, one atomic weapon establishment employee, on a short-term appointment, is stationed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. A further 17 British personnel are in the USA as part of the Polaris sales agreement, as amended for Trident; their locations are as follows:

  • Crystal City, Arlington, Virginia: 13
  • Kings Bay, Georgia: 1
  • New London, Connecticut: 1
  • Laurel, Maryland: 1
  • Dahlgren, Virginia: 1

Mr. Simpson

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will update his answer of 8 June 1995,Official Report, column 297, in respect of the list of projects on which his Department is working jointly with Los Alamos National Laboratory. [12667]

Mr. Arbuthnot

Details of areas of research involving the Los Alamos National Laboratory are as follows:

  • Warhead electrical components and technologies
  • Energetic materials
  • Test monitoring
    • 196
  • Nuclear materials
  • Non-nuclear materials
  • Nuclear counter-terrorism technology
  • Facilities
  • Nuclear weapons engineering
  • Nuclear warhead physics
  • Computational technology
  • Laboratory plasma physics
  • Aircraft, missile and space system hardening
  • Manufacturing practices
  • Nuclear weapon accident response technology
  • Nuclear weapon code development
  • Nuclear weapon environment and damage effects

Mr. Simpson

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his answer of 28 June 1995,Official Report, column 682, what estimate he has made of the total cost to public funds of the visits listed for each financial year. [12661]

Mr. Arbuthnot

Such information is not held centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.