HC Deb 17 January 2000 vol 342 cc260-1W
Mr. Hoyle

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will make a statement on the decision by the Japanese electricity company Kansai Electric Power to return nuclear fuel to Britain.[105266]

Mrs. Liddell

The Government have noted Kansai Electric's statement of 10 January that they will ask BNFL to return the eight fuel assemblies at the Takahama 4 reactor to the UK. This raises a number of issues which will need to be explored by the Japanese and UK Governments before Kansai and BNFL reach any conclusions.