§ Mr. Campbell-SavoursTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if Professor Holliday's 1984 report into radioactive waste disposal in the north Atlantic had access to correspondence between the Scottish Department, the Ministry of Agriculture and the War Office dating from October 1953 to November 1967; and if Professor Holliday had unrestricted access to documentation on the dumping of radioactive waste in Beaufort's Dyke. [7192]
§ Mr. RookerThe Department has so far been unable to identify any evidence that the correspondence to which I referred in my written reply of 1 July 1997,Official Report, columns 158–60, was shown to Professor Holliday or to those supporting his enquiry, or that staff serving in the Department at that time were aware of the existence of the correspondence. The search of archive records is still in progress.
§ Mr. Campbell-SavoursTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what restrictions his Department has placed on public access at the Public Record Office to information contained in correspondence dated between October 1953 and June 1954 relating to the disposal of nuclear waste in Beaufort's Dyke; and on what precise dates correspondence on this subject dating from June 1954 to October 1954 could have been disclosed. [7193]
§ Mr. RookerThe documents to which I referred in my written reply on 1 July 1997,Official Report, columns 158–60, were contained in a file which was closed in 1960 and sent to the Public Record Office in July 1977. Under the 30-year rule, the file was made available to the public there in January 1991.