§ 31. Mr. Cohenasked the Secretary of State for Defence what recent commitments Her Majesty's Government have entered into with the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation in respect of increased expenditure on conventional weapons; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. StanleyAt the meeting of NATO Defence Ministers in December 1984 my right hon. Friend and his colleagues agreed to increase substantially the level of NATO infrastructure funding and to set in hand studies within NATO aimed at producing early proposals for improvements to conventional defence. The initial results of these studies are to be considered by NATO Ministers this spring. The Government's defence expenditure plans were set out in the public expenditure White Paper 1985 (Cmnd. 9428) published on 22 January.