HC Deb 12 December 1990 vol 182 cc430-1W
Mr. Cryer

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if there have been any visits to the atomic weapons establishments at(a) Aldermaston, (b) Burghfield and (c) Llanishen by scientific experts from (i) the United States and (ii) the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in the current year.

Mr. Archie Hamilton

In the current year United States officials have visited all three of these establishments under the terms of the 1958 United States/United Kingdom agreement for co-operation on the uses of atomic energy for mutual defence purposes. There have been no visits by Soviet officials.

Mr. Cryer

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what funds were allocated to the atomic weapons establishment in 1990; and what will be the level of funding in 1991.

Mr. Kenneth Carlisle

It is not our practice to disclose information of this kind on funding of the nuclear programme.

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