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Nuclear Fall-Out Shelters

Volume 979: debated on Friday 29 February 1980

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asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps Her Majesty's Government have taken to identify existing public or commercial buildings with basements or underground car parks which might be suitable for use as nuclear fall-out shelters.

Local authority identification of such premises is advocated in paragraph 10 of the annex to Home Office circular ES 1 /1976, a copy of which is in the Library of the House.