HL Deb 09 February 1987 vol 484 c506WA
Lord Jenkins of Putney

asked Her Majesty's Government:

What is their response to the comparative tables of nuclear weapons deployed by the USSR and the USA recently issued in Moscow.

Lord Trefgarne

Her Majesty's Government welcome Soviet willingness to make available estimates of strategic nuclear force structures. This is an encouraging contribution to the arms control process. It is hoped that this will lead to similar openness in all arms control negotiations in which the Soviet Union is involved. The United Kingdom's latest estimates were published in theStatement on the Defence Estimates 1986, Annex A.