HC Deb 21 November 1990 vol 181 c135W
Mr. Cryer

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if any officials of his Department have visited the United States nuclear laboratories at(a) Los Alamos, (b) Lawrence Livermore or (c) Sandia in the current year.

Mr. Archie Hamilton

In the current year Ministry of Defence officials have visited all three of these laboratories under the terms of the 1958 United States-United Kingdom agreement for co-operation on the uses of atomic energy for mutual defence purposes.

Repair Grants
Number and value (in brackets) £ million
Grants office 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90
Belfast 4,649 (£10.0) 4,301 (£8.7) 2,120 (£7.3) 2,768 (£4.8) 1,881 (£4.2)
Ballyclare 1,495 (£2.4) 1,023 (£1.7) 380 (£0.9) 595 (£1.1) 456 (£1.0)
Ballymena 598 (£1.3) 389 (£1.0) 182 (£0.6) 270 (£0.6) 131 (£0.4)
Coleraine 562 (£1.1) 444 (£0.9) 197 (£0.5) 259 (£0.5) 176 (£0.4)
Craigavon 1,063 (£1.9) 660 (£1.1) 338 (£0.7) 369 (£0.5) 265 (£0.5)
Fermanagh 340 (£0.7) 272 (£0.6) 148 (£0.4) 201 (£0.4) 200 (£0.4)
Lisburn 861 (£2.8) 733 (£1.4) 329 (£1.1) 438 (£0.9) 267 (£0.6)
Londonderry 598 (£1.2) 444 (£0.9) 208 (£0.6) 248 (£0.5) 211 (£0.6)
Newry 448 (£1.2) 326 (£0.8) 214 (£0.7) 215 (£0.5) 137 (£1.7)
Newtownards 2,072 (£2.2) 1,743 (£3.3) 708 (£2.0) 661 (£1.8) 493 (£1.6)
Omagh 388 (£1.1) 287 (£0.6) 177 (£0.5) 243 (£0.6) 222 (£0.6)

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