HC Deb 21 July 1998 vol 316 c474W
Mr. Matthew Taylor

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his answer on 24 June 1998,Official Report, column 527, if he will list the functions which have been carried out in the underground part of the site at Spring Quarry, Corsham, since 1968. [51132]

Mr. Spellar

Since 1968, and until its closure in 1995, the underground site at Spring Quarry, Corsham was used by the MOD as a bulk storage area with both military and civil communication facilities. Other functions carried out on the site were in support of these tasks, for example the servicing of transport vehicles for use in the stores.