HC Deb 10 April 2002 vol 383 c442W
Matthew Taylor

To ask the Secretary of State for Health on what dates, and where,(a)Ministers and (b)officials in his Department have met the Irish Government to discuss the British Nuclear Fuels plant at Sellafield since 5 October 2001; and which Ministers and which Irish Government Departments were involved in each meeting. [43474]

Yvette Cooper

Officials from the Department have been involved in two meetings since 5 October 2001 with the Irish Government to discuss the British Nuclear Fuels plant at Sellafield. These meetings were on11 December 2001—Compliance with the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) Provisional Measures Order (Dublin, Ireland) involving officials from the Department, the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) and other Government Departments, the Department of Public Enterprise (Ireland) and the Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland. 15 February 2002—UK Ireland Contact Group on Radioactivity (London) involving officials from the Department, DEFRA, other Government Departments, devolved Administrations, Department of Public Enterprise (Ireland), Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland and the Isle of Man Government.

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