I have just found an e-mail sent to me by Michael Maunder - yes, I finally remembered his name! This is the relevant part-
Forget stabiliser. In days of yore very necessary, but dyes are now so much more stable and so on. As long as you fix/blix properly, then wash fully, the negs will probably outlive you, particularly as even those 40+ year old negatives can be scanned to restore colour.
The proper stabiliser is formaldehyde and no Elfnsafety Commissar is going to allow that and if you try to buy, you'll get your collar felt as a terrorist, or worse - a chemist who knows what he's doing.
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