HC Deb 25 February 1994 vol 238 c494W
Mr. Llew Smith

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, pursuant to her answer to the hon. Member for Islington, South and Finsbury (Mr. Smith) of 17 February,Official Report, column 986, if the ban on low-level radioactive waste disposal into the sea includes liquid radioactive waste discharged from land-based sources.

Mr. Jack

The ban on radioactive wastes at sea does not include controlled low-level emissions from land-based sources. Land-based emissions do not come within the scope of the London convention.