HC Deb 03 April 1996 vol 275 cc340-1W
Mr. Foulkes

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, pursuant to his answer of 12 March,Official Report, columns 510–11, if radioactive waste was dumped by British ships in the English channel after 1966. [24221]

Mr. Baldry

Radioactive waste was last dumped in the English channel, at the Hurd deep dump site, in 1963. Details of UK sea-disposal operations are given in the 1984 "Report of the Independent Review of Disposal of Radioactive Waste in the North East Atlantic", a copy of which is in the Library.