HC Deb 12 June 1997 vol 295 cc550-2W
Mr. Llew Smith

To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, pursuant to his answer of 2 June,Official Report column 11, if he will place in the Library (a) a list of the titles of the 42 files on disposal of radioactive waste at the Hurd Deep and (b) a copy of the untitled document to which he makes exceptional reference. [2643]

Mr. Hoon

I am placing in the Library a list of the titles and dates of the 42 files referred to.

In drawing up the list it has become clear that there are three further files, beyond the one referred to in my Answer of 2 June (WA 11) that are not open to inspection because they are not yet 30 years old, and I apologise to the hon. Member for inadvertently misleading him on this point. The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority has already applied to the Lord Chancellor for all four items to be opened immediately, and they will be available in the Public Record Office after an Instrument under section 5(1) of the Public Records Act 1958 has been signed.

The Public Record Office has no power under that Act to make closed records, or copies of them, generally available before an Instrument opening the records has been signed.

List of records transferred to the public record office by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority relating to the disposal of radioactive waste at the Hurd Deep
AB 6: United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority and predecessors: Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell, Correspondence and papers
Piece number Date Title
153 1946–1952 Radioactive Waste Disposal: General Policy
164 1946–1947 Effluent
237 1946–1948 Effluent Working Party: General Correspondence
381 1947–1954 Radioactive Waste Disposal at Sea
437 1948–1953 Disposal of Radioactivity at Sea
604 1949–1955 Arrangements for Radioactive Waste Disposal at Sea
607 1949–1950 Effluent Disposal
741 1950–1953 Disposal of Radioactive Waste other than at Sea
1045 1952–1958 Disposal of Radioactivity at Sea
1499 1954–1959 Disposal of Radioactive Effluent
1732 1955–1959 Radioactive Waste Effluent:General
1733 1955–1959 Radioactive Waste Disposal:General
1734 1955–1957 Radioactive Waste Disposal:Disposal at Sea
2087 1958–1962 Disposal of Radioactive Waste at Sea
2247 1960–1961 Annual Sea Disposal: 1960–1961
2248 1959 Annual Sea Dumping: 1959
2249 1958 Annual Sea Dumping: 1958
2250 1959 Annual Sea Dumping: 1959
2251 1961 Annual Sea Dumping: 1961
2452 1960–1968 Radioactive Effluent: Correspondence
2575 1961–1962 Annual Sea Disposal Operation

AB 12: United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority and Predecessors: Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell: Committees, correspondence and papers
Piece number Date Title
43 1947–1948 Effluent Disposal Working Party: Agenda and Minutes
207 1954–1956 Project Health Committee: Agenda, Minutes and Papers
227 1955 Effluent Sub-committee: Minutes
354 1957 High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactor: Clean-up committee: Minutes and Papers
507 1961–1966 Health Committee: Agenda, Minutes and Papers Volume 2

AB 15: United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority and Predecessors: Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell: Reports and memoranda
Piece number Date Title
6565 1963 Prediction and Measurement of Doses during Sea Disposal Operations in 1961
6723 1964 Report of the Working Party on Containers for the Disposal of Radioactive Waste at Sea

AB 16: Ministry of Supply and United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority: Atomic Energy Division and London office: Files
Piece number Date Title
1653 1955–1958 Disposal of Radioactive Waste by Sea Dumping
1654 1959–1963 Disposal of Radioactive Waste by Sea Dumping
3532 1960–1966 Sea Dumping: Indemnity to and Charges by Admiralty

AB 45:London office: Health and safety: Correspondence and papers
Piece number Date Title
39 1963–1964 Disposal of Radioactive Waste by Sea Dumping

AB 54: United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority: Energy Research Establishment Harwell: Health and safety, correspondence and papers
Piece number Date Title
2 1962–1963 Annual Sea Disposal Operation
3 1962–1964 Annual Sea Disposal Operation
15 1962–1964 Waste Disposal at Sea
16 1960–1962 Liaison with France: Waste Disposal at Sea
17 1962–1969 Liaison with France: Waste Disposal at Sea
26 1964–1969 European Nuclear Energy Agency: Collaboration on Sea Dumping of Radioactive Waste

AB 54: United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority: Energy Research Establishment Harwell: Health and safety, correspondence and papers
Piece number Date Title
27 1962–1965 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Conditions for Authorisation of Disposal of Radioactive Waste at Sea, and Contracts with Commercial Firms
28 1963–1964 Annual Sea Disposal Operation
29 1964–1973 Sea Dumping: Background Papers
31 1963–1964 Sea Dumping of Radioactive Wastes