HC Deb 19 December 1988 vol 144 cc50-1W
Mr. Frank Cook

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what information has been provided(a) British Nuclear Fuels plc, (b) the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, (c) the Central Electricity Generating Board and (d) the South of Scotland Electricity Board to the European Commission under article 37 of the Euratom Treaty since May 1979 on the subject of nuclear waste disposal; and if he will list by date all submissions made by each of the nuclear facility operators to Euratom under article 37 of the Euratom Treaty since there has been a requirement to make such data available.

Mrs. Virginia Bottomley

[holding answer 15 December 1988]: There have been no submissions since 15 February 1988. Under article 37 of the Euratom treaty, responsibility for making submissions to the European Commission concerning plans for the disposal of radioactive waste rests with Her Majesty's Government, not the operators of nuclear installations.

The information, which is supplied by the Department of the Environment on behalf of the nuclear site operators to the Commission under article 37 of the Euratom treaty, conforms to the regulations laid down by the Commission in the Official Journal of the European Community dated 29 March 1982 (ref No. L83/15), a copy of which has been placed in the House of Commons Library. The following submissions have been made to the Commission since May 1979:

Date
(a) British Nuclear Fuels plc:
Capenhurst—Uranium Enrichment Plants May 1981
Sellafield—Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant June 1984
(b) United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority Dounreay—PFR Fuel Reprocessing Plant November 1979

Aggregate Exchequer Grant1 Per Capita2£(1988–89 Prices)
1981–823 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–874 1987–88 1988–89
Shire Areas 295 274 269 268 239 230 229 220
Metropolitan Districts 295 278 282 277 264 290 296 290
Inner London Boroughs (including City of London) 233 246 244 222 244 342 338 326
Outer London Boroughs 260 263 250 248 236 248 258 260
1 AEG currently being paid to authorities. These are final amounts for 1981–82 to 1984–85. Cash values per capita have been converted to constant 1988–89 prices using the GDP deflator.
2 Per capita figures have been derived by taking total population mid year estimates supplied by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys.
3 Information is not readily available on a comparable basis for the year 1980–81.the year before the present Rate Support Grant System was introduced.
4 Figures for Metropolitan Districts and Inner and Outer London Boroughs for 1986–87 and following years are not comparable with earlier years because of the abolition of the GLC and the Metropolitan County Councils.