§ 1. Mr. Hector Hughesasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what steps he has taken during the last month to ensure that experimental explosions of atomic, hydrogen or thermo-nuclear bombs will not take place in seas adjacent to the British Isles or other centres of population or in places where the after effects of such experimental explosions are likely prejudicially to affect human beings.
§ Mr. H. Macmillan:I would refer the hon. and learned Member to the answer I gave him on 19th April. The Sub-Committee of the United Nations Disarmament Commission is still meeting in London. Meanwhile it is not our intention to carry out tests which will have harmful effects on human beings. The United States Government for their part have declared that they will continue to take all possible precautionary measures. So far as I am aware, the Soviet Government have not yet given any indication of their intentions.