§ Mr. Wallaceasked the Secretary of State for Energy if he will make a statement on the future plans for the fast reactor programme beyond 1990.
§ Mr. GoodladMy right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Energy announced on 16 January 1984, at columns 47–48 that the United Kingdom had joined a European collaboration for the joint and long-term development of fast reactors through signature of an intergovernmental memorandum of understanding with France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Italy and Belgium.
I subsequently reported on 24 May this year, at columns 586–87, that the Government's general policies on the United Kingdom's participation in the collaboration had been set out in a letter from the Secretary of State for Energy to the chairman of the UKAEA, copies of which are available in the Libraries of both Houses.