HC Deb 03 December 1969 vol 792 c289W
66. Mr. Arthur Lewis

asked the Secretary of State for Defence whether, in view of the United States Government's decision to scrap their whole stock of germ warfare weapons, he will take similar action.

Mr. John Morris

This country has no stock of these weapons so the question of scrapping does not arise. As my right hon. Friend said in reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Bebington (Mr. Brooks) on 1st May, 1968, we neither develop nor produce bacteriological weapons and no question of a rôle for them in our deterrent strategy arises.—[Vol. 763, c. 187.]