HC Deb 15 February 1990 vol 167 cc328-9W
Mr. Flynn

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy if, pursuant to his reply of 2 February to the hon. Member for Newport, West,Official Report, column 385, he will set out details of (a) the disaggregated contracts making up the £80 million fuel services, (b) the disaggregated details of the contracts making up the 80 per cent. of additional capacity for overseas customer use of THORP and (c) the details of each export contract requiring the approval of the Secretary of State under the Nuclear Installations Act 1965.

Mr. Baldry

The export contracts awarded to British Nuclear Fuels plc within the past two years were for:

£ million
Uranium processing services 12
Uranium enrichment services 46
Consultancy services, design and engineering work; technology 9
Spent fuel transport services 13
80

Orders for additional reprocessing in THORP have been secured from the Federal Republic of Germany, Japan, the Netherlands and Switzerland.

Approvals under the Nuclear Installations Act 1965 are given at the time of shipment rather than when contracts are awarded. The details are commercially confidential.