HC Deb 20 July 1977 vol 935 cc614-5W
Mr. Hooley

asked the Secretary of State for Energy from which provisions of the recent health and safety legislation, or regulations made thereunder, the British Nuclear Fuels Ltd. establishment at Windscale was excluded.

Mr. Eadie

British Nuclear Fuels Limited's (BNFL) licensed nuclear site at Windscale is subject to the provisions of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and relevant regulations made under it, in the same way as are all sites licensed under the Nuclear Installations Act 1965. The Windscale site, which became a BNFL site in 1971 and has from that time been subject to licensing, has not subsequently been excluded from any of the statutory provisions which apply to licensed sites.