HC Deb 23 May 1990 vol 173 c184W
Mr. Simon Hughes

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list those ports which in 1989 were used for the import or export of radioactive material.

Mr. McLoughlin

The Department does not collect data of the kind requested.

Mr. Simon Hughes

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport whether passenger ferries are permitted to carry nuclear fuel, and if he will make a statement.

Mr. McLoughlin

The carriage of spent nuclear fuel on passenger ferries is permitted within the conditions prescribed for such transport in the international maritime dangerous goods code.

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