§ Mr. Deakinsasked the Secretary of State for Energy how many of the officials, including scientists, who advise him on nuclear energy matters, in each grade from principal upwards, have previously worked in the nuclear power industry and how many officials have left his Department in the past 10 years to take up jobs in the nuclear power industry.
§ Mr. Peter WalkerFour officials in the Department of Energy who advise me on nuclear energy matters have previously worked in the nuclear power industry, assuming this to include the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority but not the electricity supply industry. These are one grade 3, one grade 6 and two principal scientific officers. The Department will also shortly be employing, on a temporary basis, a number of consultants, some of whom will have worked in the nuclear power industry, to advise on the content and monitoring of the AEA's research and development programmes following the outcome of the AEA Review which were announced on 11 February 1985 at columns 30–33.
No official has left the Department to take up a job in the nuclear power industry in the past 10 years. (Sir Walter Marshall was already deputy chairman of the AEA when he ceased to be the chief scientist at the Department in 1977.)