To ask the Secretary of State for Energy when he expects to publish the civil plutonium production figures for 1988–89; and what it has cost him to prepare this data.

The figures were published on 5 December and copies placed in the Library of the House. My Department's role is to co-ordinate the information for publication. The bulk of the work has been done by the Central Electricity Generating Board, the South of Scotland Electricity Board, British Nuclear Fuels plc and the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority.