§ Mr. Newensasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth 672W Affairs if he will make a statement on the future of the American Polaris bases in Great Britain and if he will take steps to initiate the future cessation of the manufacture and use of nuclear weapons by all countries.
§ Mr. HattersleyOn the Polaris basis I have nothing to add to the reply given to the honourable Member for Keighley (Mr. Cryer) by my right honourable Friend the Secretary of State for Defence on 13th May. Her Majesty's Government are fully committed to the search, in the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament and elsewhere, for multilateral nuclear disarmament as part of general disarmament, but, as was made clear on 12th March, we are not in favour of taking unilateral action.