To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what information he has on a report issued by the United States Department of Defence in autumn 1987 on the problems of safeguarding and physical security of plutonium in international commerce; and if this report has any implication for safeguarding and security arrangements for planned air freighting of plutonium from BNFL, Sellafield, to Japan.

We are obtaining a copy of the report, and I will write to the hon. Member shortly.