Speeches

Nick Harvey – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Defence

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nick Harvey on 2015-02-12.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when construction work on Box A of Project Pegasus at the Atomic Weapons Establishment started.

Mr Philip Dunne

Pegasus is the replacement Highly Enriched Uranium component manufacturing and storage facility, and forms part of the Government’s programme of investment in the Atomic Weapons Establishment sites.

Preparatory work on Box A started in May 2013 and construction work began in August 2013.