§ Mr. Skeetasked the Secretary of State for Energy if he will make a statement on exports of plutonium to the United States of America for civil purposes.
§ Mr. John MooreAs I said in my answer to the right hon. Member for Llanelli (Mr. Davies) on 15 March 1982, approximately 50 kgs of plutonium of United Kingdom origin have been sold for civil purposes to the United States since 1971. The specific amounts involved were 46 kgs in 1973–74 and 8 kgs in 1974–75. There have been no such exports since 1975.
117WIn 1979, the UKAEA announced a fast reactor research programme with the United States of America under which experimental fuel pins manufactured in the United Kingdom and the United States of America are undergoing a range of tests in support of fast reactor safety. These tests include irraditation in the prototype fast reactor at Dounreay and testing in the transient reactor test facility at Idaho Falls, United States of America. So far, 6 kgs of plutonium contained in PFR fuel pins have been sent to the United States of America under this continuing civil research programme. The movement of pins between the United Kingdom and the United States of America is planned to ensure that there will have been no net export of plutonium from the United Kingdom by the end of the programme. All the material involved is subject to the relevant safeguards agreements with the IAEA and Eurotom.
(a) total net official development assistance (oda) (b) net oda to least developed countries (c) food aid 1980 1981 1980 1981 1980 1981 per cent. per cent. per cent. per cent. per cent. per cent. EC 33.5 35.5 44.1 45.1 27.1 32.2 USA 18.4 16.1 10.9 10.7 49.4 42.6 OPEC 23.6 21.8 18.0 17.1 1.1 0.9 Japan 8.7 8.9 6.9 6.0 9.9 11.7 USSR 4.3 4.6 7.9 7.8 — — The above is in terms of net official development assistance. For items (a) and (c) this represents each donor group's share of the total aid given in each year, both bilaterally and multilaterally. For item (b) it represents each group's share of LLDC receipts of bilateral aid and, for the European Community and the members of OPEC, EC aid and Arab OPEC agencies' aid respectively; it excludes aid through other multilateral agencies as the calculations required could be obtained only at disproportionate cost. In the case of the Soviet Union, aid disbursements are overwhelmingly concentrated on six recipients which are client states of the USSR or Communist developing countries.