§ 15. Mr. Patrick Thompsonasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what conclusions about the role of civil protection Her Majesty's Government draw from the disaster at Chernobyl.
§ Mr. Giles ShawThe incident has underlined the importance of planning flexibly for a wide range of emergencies as proposed in the Government's all-hazards approach to civil protection.
§ 32. Mr. Terlezkiasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department when his Department first received 255W information from the Devon emergency volunteers about a suspected incident in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics of radiological significance prior to official confirmation of the Chernobyl disaster.
§ 41. Mr. Spellerasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what representations he received from outside sources alleging an incident in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics suspected to be of radiological significance prior to official notification from within Government about the Chernobyl disaster.
§ Mr. Giles ShawIn the absence of notification from the Soviet Government, initial information about the incident came from monitoring by other countries which were affected before us. The county emergency planning officer of Devon telephoned the Department's emergency planning division on the afternoon of 28 April after hearing a local radio news story about a suspected nuclear accident in the USSR.