§ Mr. Foulkesasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the directions he has given in relation to radioactive discharges from Sellafield since 13 December 1983.
§ Mr. WaldegraveMy right hon. Friend has issued no such directions. However, the authorisation under the Radioactive Substances Act 1960 issued to British Nuclear Fuels Ltd on 19 March 1971 by the Secretary of State for the Environment and on 26 March 1971 by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food that permits the company to discharge liquid radioactive waste from the Sellafield site was varied on 4 July 1980, 16 February 1985 and 28 December 1984.
No consolidated version of the authorisation has been issued but the text published in the sixth annual report of the Radioactive Wastd Management Advisory Committee constitutes the current state of the authorisation as varied.