asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether uranium has been imported from South Africa, Namibia, Australia and Canada into the United Kingdom and what safeguards against misuse have been applied in each case?

All civil uranium imported into the United Kingdom under the present administration has been subject to Euratom safeguards and to the terms of the UK/Euratom/IAEA safeguards agreement. Since 1979, the Central Electricity Generating Board, on behalf of the British Civil Uranium Procurement Directorate, which is responsible for meeting the uranium requirements of the UK's civil nuclear programme, has imported from only Canada and Namibia out of the four countries specified by the noble Lord. Such imports from Namibia ceased in 1984.