§ Mr. WorthingtonTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what is his policy on allowing no arms sales to countries unless there is a verifiable cap on their nuclear weapon programme; and to what countries Britain has sold arms which have not had such a verifiable cap in the past 10 years.
§ Mr. Douglas HoggThe United States and Russia are the only nuclear weapon states which have accepted a verifiable ceiling on their nuclear warhead numbers under the START treaties. We do not have a policy of refusing arms sales to countries which have not accepted similar restraints.