HC Deb 02 February 1995 vol 253 c850W
Mr. Llew Smith

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will establish an investigation into the allegations by former Royal Ordnance employee, Harry Southall, that two atomic bombs were buried at the Royal Ordnance site at Pembrey, Dyfed.

Mr. Soames

Until its closure in 1964, the former royal ordnance factory Pembrey was primarily engaged in the production of explosives although, in its final years of operation, it acted as a munition breakdown centre. The factory was never associated with our nuclear weapon programme and at no stage in its operations was the factory used for the production, storage or disposal of nuclear weapons.