AIDS
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NCAD
Mr. Cohen: To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services whether he has any plans to step up the campaign to alert the public to the dangers of AIDS and to promote better protective measures; whether he will liaise with the broadcasting authorities to seek to adjust their rules so as to permit the broadcasting of more informative advertisements; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Newton: Responsibility for carrying forward the mass media AIDS public education campaign rests with the Health Education Authority.
The authority's operational plan for 1988-89 includes provision for further campaigns aimed at the general public and specific groups in society. These will build on progress made so far.
The content of advertising is a matter for the broadcasting authority concerned, and I am not aware that the provision of appropriate information is precluded by the existing guidelines.
Debt Relief
ERD
Miss Lestor: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what criteria govern the choice of country benefiting from debt relief from the United Kingdom.
Mr. Lilley: The United Kingdom in common with other official creditors reschedules countries' debts in the Paris Club if they are following IMF approved adjustment programmes and would otherwise be unable to meet their debts service obligations. Reschedulings over longer periods are allowed to the poorest, most heavily indebted of such countries. The criteria which will govern which countries will benefit under the framework for con- cessional reschedulings agreed at the Toronto summit will be decided by the Paris Club. The United Kingdom also converts old aid loans into grants following the 1978 UNCTAD resolution 165 for countries which have income per head of less than $425 a year and which are following IMF approved adjustment programmes.
Strategic Defence Initiative
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Mr. Cryer: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if his counterpart in the United States held any specific consultations with him prior to the Moscow summit to seek permission from Her Majesty's Government that technology developed under licence in the United Kingdom for the strategic defence initiative star wars programme may be offered to the Soviet Union at some future date as stated by President Reagan in Moscow.
Mr. Sainsbury: No. The United States President's offer to share the "fruits of SDI research has not been elaborated in the detail suggested in the hon. Member's question. If and when such an issue were to arise, it would be the subject of consultation.
Nuclear Submarines
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DEFENCE
Mr. Cryer: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) on what date, and in what form, the United States President indicated his willingness to seek the approval of Congress under Cmnd. 9847 (1956) the amendment agreement on the United Kingdom United States exchange of information on naval nuclear propulsion units to Cmnd. 9560, for Her Majesty's Government to make available technology and design data on nuclear propelled submarines to Canada;
(2) on what date, and in what form, the United States President indicated his willingness to seek the approval of Congress under articles III, IV, VC, VIA and VII of Cmnd. 537 of 3 July 1958 as amended by Cmnd. 859, in 1959; by Cmnd. 4119 in 1969; by Cmnd. 6017 in 1975; Cmnd. 7976 in 1979 and Cmnd. 9336 in 1984 agreement between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the United States of America for co-operation on the uses of atomic energy for mutual defence purposes, for Her Majesty's Government to make available technology and design data on nuclear submarines to Canada;
(3) on what date, and in what form, the United States President indicated his willingness to seek the approval of Congress under articles 1(2) and V of Cmnd. 9560 1955 agreement between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the United States of America for co- operation regarding atomic information for mutual defence purposes, 15 June 1955 for Her Majesty's Goverment to make available technology and design data on nuclear propelled submarines to Canada.
Mr. Sainsbury: Under the terms of the United States/ United Kingdom "Agreement for Co-operation in the Uses of Atomic Energy for Mutual Defence Purposes of 1958" (Cmnd. 537 (as amended)), United States consent is required for the transfer by the United Kingdom to a third party of information and technology covered by that agreement. The willingness of the United States President to seek Congressional approval of amendments to the United States/Canada "Agreement for Co-operation in the Uses of Atomic Energy for Mutual Defence Purposes" of 1959 to allow the transfer of equipment and materials related to the TRAFALGAR class nuclear-powered submarine was made public by a statement from the spokesman for the United States Department of State on 27 April.
Daya Bay Project
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Mr. Cryer: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy if his Department or organisations responsible to his Department have received any request since May 1979 to conduct a safety and evacuation analysis for the Daya Bay pressurised water reactor project at Guandong in the Republic of China; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Michael Spicer: The Hong Kong Government have retained the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority as consultants to advise on the implications of the Daya Bay pressurised water reactor for the territory.