HC Deb 12 March 1993 vol 220 cc721-2W
Mr. Bennett

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make a statement on the exact role(a) Brown and Root, (b) Hunting plc and (c) Atomic Energy Authority Technology would play in the day-to-day management of the AWEs.

Mr. Aitken

Brown and Root, Hunting plc and AEA Technology have formed Hunting BRAE Ltd. as a joint venture company, which has been selected as the winner of the competition to appoint a contractor to operate the Atomic Weapons Establishment from 1 April 1993. It is Hunting BRAE Ltd., rather than its parent organisation, which will have the responsibility and authority for day-to-day management of the establishment after that date, subject of course to MOD's stringent operating requirements.