HC Deb 28 July 1989 vol 157 cc978-9W
Dr. Thomas

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy if he will make it his policy in future publication of annual civil plutonium production and dispatch figures, that the positive or negative error to be applied to the data for each nuclear station be published with the data.

Mr. Wakeham

I shall consider carefully the point made by the hon. Member.

Dr. Thomas

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy what amount of plutonium has been declared to the safeguards authorities, which is located in(a) high-level liquid radioactive waste tanks and (b) solid plutonium contaminated waste at Sellafield; and if he will give details for the periods May 1979 to December 1986, and January 1987 to the present.

Mr. Michael Spicer

All safeguards data are confidential to the parties concerned.