§ Mr. Marlowasked the Secretary of State for Defence whether there are sufficient United Kingdom service personnel available at Greenham common to prevent a unilateral firing there of cruise by United States service personnel.
§ Mr. StanleyAs my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister made clear in her reply to my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Colchester, North (Sir A. Buck) on 12 May 1983, the effect of the existing understandings between the United Kingdom and the United States governing the use by the United States of nuclear weapons and bases in this country, and of the arrangements for implementing those understandings, is that no nuclear weapon would be fired or launched from British territory without the agreement of the British Prime Minister. The contingency envisaged by my hon. Friend does not therefore arise.—[Vol. 42, c.435.]
§ Mr. Blairasked the Secretary of State for Defence when the delivery of cruise missiles will be completed at each base.
§ Mr. StanleyI cannot add to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Woolwich (Mr. Cartwright) on 9 November—[Vol. 48, c.156.]