Nuclear Arms Reduction (Hansard, 5 February 1992)

HC Deb 05 February 1992 vol 203 c175W 175W

§ Mr. Cryer
To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to his answer of 21 January,Official Report, column 111, if the United Kingdom plans to submit any of its nuclear arms to multilateral nuclear arms reduction and disarmament talks over the next year.

§ The Prime Minister
When I met President Yeltsin in London he accepted that Trident would be a minimum deterrent, and that the focus of arms control negotiations should be on the arsenals of the United States and Russia. We have already announced plans to cut the United Kingdom's stockpile of sub-strategic nuclear weapons by about half.