The British Government's decisions have been made contrary to independent and international political and scientific concern. It has ignored the repeated warnings of the Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, who has referred to the exposure of the operations to the increased risk of terrorism involving nuclear weapons. Leading scientists, to whom I referred on the previous occasion this issue was discussed, such as Dr. Frank Barnaby of the Oxford research group and Dr. Large have stated publicly on a number of occasions in recent years that the MOX plant represents a prime target for a terrorist attack and poses a major threat to this country.