HC Deb 08 December 1980 vol 995 cc256-7W
Mr. Eldon Griffiths

asked the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make an assessment of United States policy on the deployment of cruise missiles in Great Britain, in the light of American anxieties that a future British Government may order its missiles to be sent home.

Mr. Pym

If the Soviet Union is to have an incentive to negotiate seriously towards an arms control agreement on theatre nuclear weapons, it is important that NATO should steadfastly continue to implement the full programme to modernise its theatre nuclear forces until such an agreement is leached. The United States Government have made it clear that they share this view.

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