To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what quantities of (a) radioactive wastes and (b) surplus conventional explosives his Department has disposed of in the Hurd Deep off Alderney; and if he will place in the Library copies of departmental documents which cover these disposals. [39256]

Complete records of past sea dumping of munitions at Hurd Deep are not available. Details of the UK's sea disposal programme for low and intermediate level radioactive wastes, including wastes generated by MOD establishments, some of which was disposed of in Hurd Deep, are contained in a report commissioned by the Department of the Environment titled "Report of the Independent Review of Disposal of Radioactive Waste in the Northeast Atlantic", published in November 1994.