HC Deb 16 February 1988 vol 127 cc589-90W
Dr. Thomas

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy if he will list the number of(a) nuclear power plants, (b) nuclear fuel cycle facilities, (c) fossil fuel plants, (d) fossil fuel processing facilities and (e) renewable energy production and conversion sites he has visited since he became Secretary of State.

Mr. Parkinson

I have visited the nuclear facilities at Dounreay and Sellafield, the Leman and Morecambe bay gas fields, the gas processing facilities at Bacton, and the Orkney wind generator.

My hon. Friends the Minister of State and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State have visited Dungeness A and B power stations, the Capenhurst enrichment plant, the UKAEA at Harwell, Didcot coal-fired power station, British Alcan's coal-fired power station at Lynemouth, the Fort Dunlop CHP plant, the refuse driven plant at Byker, and the Islay wave power project.