§ Mr. D. E. Thomasasked the Prime Minister if she will specify, pursuant to her answer to the hon. Member for Yeovil (Mr. Ashdown) Official Report, 19 February, columns 406–7, the date of the start of the production period for plutonium for defence requirements to which she referred in describing the plutonium production for defence purposes that followed the initial stoppage after the then Prime Minister's statement of 21 April 1964.
§ The Prime MinisterIt is not in the national interest to give details of the production of plutonium for defence purposes.