HC Deb 23 March 1989 vol 149 c754W
Mr. Flynn

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if any(a) plutonium or (b) tritium was exported on 21 February under agreement or order of his Department from Barrow on the PNTL ship Pacific Sandpiper destined for Hampton Rhodes, in Virginia, and thereafter Baltimore in the United States of America.

Mr. Sainsbury

It has been the practice of successive Governments neither to confirm nor deny the presence of defence special nuclear materials at any particular place or time, nor to reveal details of the kind requested.

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