§ Mr. McGradyTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make a statement about the explosion which occurred in May 1977 at the Dounreay nuclear power plant station near Thurso in Scotland; what is his assessment of the damage caused by the explosion; and what are the environmental consequences both then and now. [32431]
§ Mr. PageI have been asked to reply.
I refer the hon. Member to the answer given by my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State for Scotland on 13 June 1994, Official Report, column 472, to a question from my hon. Friend the Member for Aberdeen, South (Mr. Robertson) and the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Glasgow, Maryhill (Mrs. Fyfe) on 29 June 1995, Official Report, column 747.