§ Mr. Llew SmithTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Mid-Bedfordshire (Mr. Sayeed) of 2 November 1998,Official Report, columns 414-15, on nuclear, chemical and biological weapons in the former Soviet Union, how much financial assistance has been (i) provided to date and (ii) committed in the future, to the International Science and Technology Centre; and how much financial investment has been committed to studying options for the disposal of surplus defence plutonium in Russia; and which British experts are involved in this study and to what timetable they are working. [60683]
§ Mr. Doug HendersonI will write to my hon. Friend and a copy of my letter will be placed in the Library of the House.