Dr. ThomasTo ask the Secretary of State for Energy when his Department obtained the two Open university documents which he agreed to procure in his reply to the hon. Member for Meirionnydd Nant Conwy,Official Report, 12 February 1988, column 394; and what cost was incurred by his Department in their procurement.
§ Mr. ParkinsonThe Department's library acquired a copy of Open university research group report, "Reflections on Britain's Nuclear History, A conversation with Lord Minton" by David Lowry, in February 1988 at a cost of £9. Dr. Lowry's thesis, "Nuclear Powers—An Assessment of Nuclear Decision Making, 1932–1979, with Special Reference to the Anglo-American Atomic Relationship", is not commercially published. It is available on loan from the Open university and was borrowed by the Department's library in March 1988.