ADVERTISING STANDARDS AUTHORITY DECISION ON BRITISH NUCLEAR GROUP

Early day motion 868, tabled 26 October 2005 by Colin Challen (Labour). Signed by 26 members.

That this House notes that the Advertising Standards Authority has rejected the honourable Member for Morley and Rothwell's complaint against the British Nuclear Group advertisement which appeared in the New Statesman on 26th September under the heading, `Decommissioning Berkeley showed that one new British business has a clear future', and which contained a photograph which purported to show how British Nuclear Group had returned the site of the former Berkeley nuclear power station to a greenfield site; further notes that this advertisement was the subject of other complaints; and calls upon British Nuclear Group, despite the adjudication of the Advertising Standards Authority, not to use electronically manipulated photographs in its advertisements without disclaimers in the future.

Signatures by party: Labour 13, Liberal Democrat 5, Scottish National Party 5, Social Democratic and Labour Party 2, Plaid Cymru 1.