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Mr. Cryer
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if any officials of his Department have visited the United States nuclear laboratories at (a) Los Alamos, (b) Lawrence Livermore or (c) Sandia in the current year.
Mr. Archie Hamilton
In the current year Ministry of Defence officials have visited all three of these laboratories under the terms of the 1958 United States-United Kingdom agreement for co-operation on the uses of atomic energy for mutual defence purposes.
| Repair Grants | |||||
| Number and value (in brackets) £ million | |||||
| Grants office | 1985–86 | 1986–87 | 1987–88 | 1988–89 | 1989–90 |
| Belfast | 4,649 (£10·0) | 4,301 (£8·7) | 2,120 (£7·3) | 2,768 (£4·8) | 1,881 (£4·2) |
| Ballyclare | 1,495 (£2·4) | 1,023 (£1·7) | 380 (£0·9) | 595 (£1·1) | 456 (£1·0) |
| Ballymena | 598 (£1·3) | 389 (£1·0) | 182 (£0·6) | 270 (£0·6) | 131 (£0·4) |
| Coleraine | 562 (£1·1) | 444 (£0·9) | 197 (£0·5) | 259 (£0·5) | 176 (£0·4) |
| Craigavon | 1,063 (£1·9) | 660 (£1·1) | 338 (£0·7) | 369 (£0·5) | 265 (£0·5) |
| Fermanagh | 340 (£0·7) | 272 (£0·6) | 148 (£0·4) | 201 (£0·4) | 200 (£0·4) |
| Lisburn | 861 (£2·8) | 733 (£1·4) | 329 (£1·1) | 438 (£0·9) | 267 (£0·6) |
| Londonderry | 598 (£1·2) | 444 (£0·9) | 208 (£0·6) | 248 (£0·5) | 211 (£0·6) |
| Newry | 448 (£1·2) | 326 (£0·8) | 214 (£0·7) | 215 (£0·5) | 137 (£1·7) |
| Newtownards | 2,072 (£2·2) | 1,743 (£3·3) | 708 (£2·0) | 661 (£1·8) | 493 (£1·6) |
| Omagh | 388 (£1·1) | 287 (£0·6) | 177 (£0·5) | 243 (£0·6) | 222 (£0·6) |