HC Deb 09 December 1992 vol 215 cc696-7W
Ms. Walley

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what plans he has to licence the channel tunnel for the transportation of plutonium; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Freeman

This is a matter for the concessionaire's commercial judgment. Eurotunnel has said that it does not intend to permit the transport of nuclear material through the channel tunnel.

Ms. Walley

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what account he has taken of the recommendations contained in the report for the European Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Protection, on the environmental and public health aspects of the storage, transport and reprocessing of spent nuclear fuels and plutonium, dated October 1992.

Mr. Kenneth Carlisle

[holding answer 7 December 1992]: None.

The report is still in draft form, awaiting comments from the European Parliament.