Dr. ThomasTo ask the Secretary of State for Energy if, pursuant to the reply to the hon. Member for Meirionnydd Nant Conwy,Official Report, 14 June, column 101, on atomic energy safeguards, he will set out the basis for his conclusion that there is not likely to be any significant difference between the general conclusions of the 1986 International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards implementation report (SIR) and the 1987 United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority safeguards implementation report.
§ Mr. Michael SpicerThe draft 1987 report has been discussed by the IAEA board of governors of which the United Kingdom is a member. A summary of the report's findings will be published in the agency's annual report in September.
Dr. ThomasTo ask the Secretary of State for Energy if, pursuant to his reply to the hon. Member for Meirionnydd Nant Conwy on atomic energy safeguards,Official Report, 14 June, column 100, he will set out details of the specific United Kingdom funded substantial safeguards support programme to which he makes reference; with what organisations contracts are lodged to carry out this programme; and if the results of this research support programme are published in publicly available literature.
§ Mr. Michael SpicerThe safeguards R and D support programme funded by the Department of Energy is carried out by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. A summary of this programme, amongst others, was placed in the Library on 23 July 1987.