§ Mr. Llew SmithTo ask the President of the Board of Trade what steps Her Majesty's Government have taken to establish an Anglo-Irish bilateral agreement with the Irish Republic for the transmission of information subsequent to a nuclear accident as proposed by European Commission opinion of 30 April 1992 on the thermal oxide reprocessing plant at Sellafield, as published in theOfficial Journal of the European Communities No. L138, 36–37, 21 May 1992.
§ Mr. YeoI have been asked to reply.
In addition to existing nuclear incident notification arrangements with the Irish authorities, a more formal bilateral agreement is being explored at regular meetings of United Kingdom and Irish officials.