HC Deb 20 November 1972 vol 846 c264W
Mr. Hugh Jenkins

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (1) as Her Majesty's Government are bound, under the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks agreements, not to build or participate in anti-ballistic missile deployment or new offensive missiles, whether he will undertake to enter into no discussions and to make no plans to such ends;

(2) in view of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks agreements, if Her Majesty's Government will undertake not to allow the deployment of nuclear missile-carrying strategic bombers from British territory.

Mr. Amery

The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks agreements are bilateral between the United States and the Soviet Union. They impose no obligations on the United Kingdom, and the question of our giving undertakings of this nature does not therefore arise.