Dr. ThomasTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence if any United Kingdom plutonium has been exported, without safeguards, to the United States of America since May 1979 under the Anglo-American mutual defence agreement.
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§ Mr. SainsburyI refer the hon. Member to the answer given by my hon. Friend the then Under-Secretary of State for Energy, the hon. Member for Eddisbury (Mr. Goodlad), on 19 November 1984, at column25, which quoted several earlier replies, including that given by my right hon. Friend the Member for Chertsey and Walton (Sir G. Pattie) to the right hon. Member for Manchester, Wythenshawe (Mr. Morris) on 25 April 1984, at column 506, which may now be updated to read, "during the past 17 years". I have nothing further to add.