Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much plutonium nuclear waste has been exported from the UK in each of the 10 years; and to which countries that waste was exported.

The UK has not exported any material classified as plutonium nuclear waste. The UK returns Higher Activity Wastes produced from reprocessing of overseas owned spent fuel to its country of origin. These wastes contain only trace quantities of plutonium. The table below sets out exports over the last 10 years.