HC Deb 02 March 1970 vol 797 c1W
27. Mr. Dalyell

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will state the latest British policy in regard to the use of chemical weapons.

43. Mr. Hugh Jenkins

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will now undertake that Her Majesty's Government will neither use nor supply gases of any sort for military purposes.

Mr. M. Stewart

The United Kingdom is a party to the 1925 Geneva Protocol and has therefore accepted certain constraints on the use in war of the substances covered by the Protocol. As far as the use of tear gases in war is concerned, I have nothing to add to my reply to my hon. Friend the Member for York (Mr. Alexander W. Lyon) on 2nd February.—[Vol. 795; c. 17–18.]