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registered interest false more like this
date less than 2014-07-03more like thismore than 2014-07-03
answering body
Department for Energy and Climate Change more like this
answering dept id 63 more like this
answering dept short name Energy and Climate Change more like this
answering dept sort name Energy and Climate Change more like this
hansard heading Plutonium more like this
house id 1 more like this
legislature
25259
pref label House of Commons more like this
question text To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the written statement of 3 July 2014, Official Report, column 61WS, on management of overseas owned plutonium in the UK, whether the plutonium from Germany and Sweden respectively allocated to the UK civilian stockpile will be subject to the withdrawal from safeguards option under article 14 of the tripartite UK-Euratom-IAEA Voluntary Safeguards Agreement of 1977. more like this
tabling member constituency Newport West more like this
tabling member printed
Paul Flynn remove filter
uin 204041 more like this
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is ministerial correction false more like this
date of answer less than 2014-07-10more like thismore than 2014-07-10
answer text <p>All civil nuclear material in the UK is subject to Euratom safeguards and the terms of the UK/Euratom/IAEA Voluntary Safeguards Agreement, including its Article 14. As part of the 1998 Strategic Defence Review, the Government announced that as a matter of policy future withdrawals of nuclear material from safeguards would be severely limited, and that the quantities of material involved would be orders of magnitude less than the amounts used to make nuclear weapons. There is no intention to withdraw from safeguards the plutonium recently allocated to the UK by Germany and Sweden. Information on nuclear material withdrawn from safeguards is available on the Office for Nuclear Regulation website at:</p><p><a href="http://www.onr.org.uk/safeguards/withdrawals.htm" target="_blank">www.onr.org.uk/safeguards/withdrawals.htm</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> more like this
answering member constituency Sevenoaks more like this
answering member printed Michael Fallon more like this
question first answered
less than 2014-07-10T15:26:47.6541209Zmore like thismore than 2014-07-10T15:26:47.6541209Z
answering member
88
label Biography information for Sir Michael Fallon more like this
tabling member
545
label Biography information for Paul Flynn more like this