Is the Minister aware of serious reports that plutonium used by Britain's civil nuclear power stations has been diverted to military uses and moreover that EURATOM and the IAEA inspectors have found that plutonium has passed from Britain to Israel? Will the Minister agree that such actions are in total conflict with international treaty obligations?

The United Kingdom have voluntarily concluded safeguard agreements with both EURATOM and the International Atomic Energy Agency covering civil nuclear materials processed at Sellafield. Neither of these bodies has detected any anomaly at Sellafield which would indicate the diversion of the safeguarded nuclear material from civil to military purposes.