§ Mr. Cohenasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement about the construction errors in the nuclear power station being built at Daya bay, 30 miles from city centre in Hong Kong.
§ Mr. EggarConstruction work on the second layer of the unit 1 reactor raft of the Daya bay plant was suspended in mid-September following the discovery that a number of reinforcement bars for the first and lowest of the five concrete layers (316 out of a planned total of over 14,500) had inadvertently been omitted. The joint venture company responsible for the project is considering remedial action to ensure that the finished construction will still comply with all the safety requirements of the original design. We are satisfied that all the parties involved attach the utmost importance to considerations of safety, and to the need to make certain that these are not compromised.