§ Mr. Barnettasked the Secretary of State for Defence if he will give a list of all Her Majesty's Government's defence treaty obligations outside Europe with dates of termination and estimated direct costs in each case in sterling and foreign exchange in each year up to and including 1969–70.
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§ Mr. HealeyBritain's defence treaty obligations outside Europe arise from N.A.T.O. (which is not confined to Europe, CENTO, SEATO, the Anglo-Libyan Treaty, the Simonstown Agreements, written undertakings concerning the protection or defence of Kuwait, Bahrein, the Trucial States, Qatar, and the Federation and Protectorates of South Arabia, the Anglo-Malaysian Treaty and the 1953 Declaration on Korea.
Of these only the Anglo-Libyan Treaty has a fixed termination date. It is 1973.
We cannot forecast whether, or to what extent, we shall be called upon actively to discharge our obligations under each individual treaty in any single year. It would therefore be impossible to forecast the annual cost of doing so.