HC Deb 09 November 1988 vol 140 c185W
Mr. Madden

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether he has discussed with his North Atlantic Treaty Organisation colleagues any new proposals to limit nuclear testing.

Mr. Archie Hamilton

The United States and the Soviet Union are currently engaged in talks and joint verification experiments with the aim of ratifying the threshold test ban treaty and the peaceful nuclear explosions treaty. United Kingdom and NATO Ministers have been kept informed of the current state of negotiations.