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British And American Plutonium Imports And Exports

EDM number 392 in 1995-96, proposed by Ken Purchase on 07/02/1996.

That this House welcomes the publication by the United States Department of Energy on 6th February of a full inventory of nuclear materials imported and exported, giving details of locations, forms and amounts of plutonium, enriched uranium and other sensitive materials; notes the Secretary of Energy, Hazel O'Leary's stated purpose in disclosing the information was to put an onus on openness rather than secrecy; acknowledges the disclosure that the United States has imported 5,360 kilogrammes of plutonium between 1959 and 1980 from the United Kingdom; contrasts this figure with the 4,000 kilogrammes which the British civil nuclear industry asserted at the Sizewell inquiry had been exported in total to the United States, under the 1958 US/UK Mutual Defense Agreement on Atomic Energy Co-operation, as amended; recalls that Government ministers, whilst refusing to disclose the quantities of plutonium exported for military purposes to the United States on national security grounds, have never contradicted the 4,000 kilogrammes figure; notes with alarm that the discrepancy of 1,360 kilogrammes of plutonium between the two figures equates to at least 350 warheads; and demands the Government follows the lead of the US Government and publishes full details of plutonium stocks and exports.

This motion has been signed by a total of 49 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Ken Purchase07/02/1996Wolverhampton North EastProposed
Alan Simpson07/02/1996Nottingham SouthSigned
Audrey Wise07/02/1996PrestonSigned
Neil Gerrard07/02/1996WalthamstowSigned
Jeremy Corbyn07/02/1996Islington NorthSigned
Harry Cohen07/02/1996LeytonSigned
Alice Mahon07/02/1996HalifaxSigned
John Heppell07/02/1996Nottingham EastSigned
Llew Smith07/02/1996Blaenau GwentSigned
Richard Burden07/02/1996Birmingham, NorthfieldSigned
Michael Clapham08/02/1996Barnsley West & PenistoneSigned
Hugh Bayley08/02/1996York, City ofSigned
Norman Godman08/02/1996Greenock and Port GlasgowSigned
Maria Fyfe08/02/1996Glasgow, MaryhillSigned
Paul Flynn08/02/1996Newport WestSigned
John Evans08/02/1996St Helens NorthSigned
Terry Davis08/02/1996Birmingham, Hodge HillSigned
John Cummings08/02/1996EasingtonSigned
Bill Michie08/02/1996Sheffield, HeeleySigned
Lynne Jones08/02/1996Birmingham, Selly OakSigned
Dennis Skinner08/02/1996BolsoverSigned
Terry Rooney08/02/1996Bradford NorthSigned
Robert Parry08/02/1996Liverpool, RiversideSigned
Harry Barnes09/02/1996North East DerbyshireSigned
Ken Livingstone09/02/1996Brent EastSigned
Gordon Prentice09/02/1996PendleSigned
Alan Meale12/02/1996MansfieldSigned
Eric Clarke12/02/1996MidlothianSigned
Lawrence Cunliffe12/02/1996LeighSigned
Tony Banks12/02/1996Newham North WestSigned
Peter Hardy13/02/1996WentworthSigned
Eddie Loyden13/02/1996Liverpool, GarstonSigned
Michael Connarty13/02/1996Falkirk EastSigned
Jim Wallace13/02/1996Orkney & ShetlandSigned
Roy Hughes14/02/1996Newport EastSigned
Dennis Turner14/02/1996Wolverhampton South EastSigned
Dafydd Wigley14/02/1996CaernarfonSigned
Colin Pickthall15/02/1996West LancashireSigned
Joan Walley20/02/1996Stoke-on-Trent NorthSigned
Jean Corston21/02/1996Bristol EastSigned
Win Griffiths21/02/1996BridgendSigned
Mike Hall21/02/1996Warrington SouthSigned
Martyn Jones28/02/1996Clwyd South WestSigned
Elfyn Llwyd06/03/1996Meirionnydd Nant ConwySigned
Jack Thompson06/03/1996WansbeckSigned
Bill Etherington07/03/1996Sunderland NorthSigned
Nigel Jones19/03/1996CheltenhamSigned
Tommy Graham19/03/1996Renfrew West and InverclydeSigned
John Gunnell27/03/1996Leeds South and MorleySigned

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