HC Deb 31 October 1988 vol 139 c478W
Sir Trevor Skeet

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy (1) if he will list the reasons for his decision to discontinue fusion research in the United Kingdom; and whether Her Majesty's Government will participate in any joint project on the continent after 1992 along the lines of Joint European Torus;

(2) on what technologies he proposes that research should be undertaken at Culham, Oxfordshire, apart from lasers.

Mr. Michael Spicer

I refer my hon. Friend to the answer given to my right hon. Friend the Member for Henley (Mr. Heseltine) on 27 October 1988, at column319.