HC Deb 14 July 2003 vol 409 cc13-4W
Mr. Meacher

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what security considerations underpinned the decision to withhold from publication the full safety analysis conducted by BNFL of its building B30 at Sellafield. [124836]

Mr. Timms

It is not Government policy to disclose information relating to civil nuclear facilities which could potentially be of use to terrorist "under Exemption 1(a) information whose disclosure would harm national security—of the Code of Practice on Access to Government Information." A version of the report which did not include such sensitive information was placed in the Libraries of the House in June this year.

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