§ 81 and 82. Mr. Masonasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) to what extent the fire services of the southern counties have been trained and equipped to deal with fires emanating from the crash of a Royal Air Force bomber carrying a hydrogen bomb;
(2) what plans have been made to evacuate the population from the vicinity of a crashed Royal Air Force bomber carrying a hydrogen bomb; to what extent members of Civil Defence have been trained to decontaminate an area poisoned by plutonium oxide; and what plans have been worked out to cope with such an emergency.
§ Mr. R. A. ButlerI would refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave earlier today to the hon. Member for Lincoln (Mr. de Freitas).