HC Deb 11 December 1968 vol 775 cc148-9W
Mr. Hooley

asked the Secretary of State for Defence in how many international inquiries into chemical and bacteriological warfare Her Majesty's Government is currently assisting or taking part.

Mr. John Morris

Her Majesty's Government which has put forward proposals in the field of chemical and biological weapons in the Eighteen Nation Disarmament Committee in Geneva, intends to co-operate fully with the Secretary General of the United Nations in the study under his auspices which is now under discussion in the United Nations General Assembly. In addition, we have during the last eighteen months welcomed visits to the Porton establishments by officials of the Western European Union Arms Control Agency, and we have supplied some information to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute for a study on this question.